Getting BMW Central prepared

One VERY filled 15 yard dumpster later and I'm one more step closer to getting the garage into shape for both 323i's. This pic is of my #4 sporting a very cool "new klasse, old school" shirt. The rest of the pics are of the garage. Just couldn't help myself!

That garage attic was awful! All the squirrel damaged rock wool insulation and sheetrock was extra itchy! It's all in that dumpster today!

The Dumpster is HERE!!!

Oh yeah! time to take out the trash and get things ready to get "trixie" home. I'm going to be going through all my collection of stuff over the last 10 years and see what needs to go to make room for the Winter of 2011. Pics as soon as I can get them of the reborn BMW shop areas.

Could I get the Garage back? Please???

It's been a very interesting few weeks as my wife has been "collecting" things for the final garage sale at our house. Now, let's make this clear; my wife is a self-confessed "rotational hoarder", meaning she does accumulate major amounts of stuff, but she rotates the stock.

Right now, the BMW house is completely overrun with "stuff". I refrain from calling it crap, lest my wife remind me (yet again) that my BMW parts and cars are really the problem here.


So what if I have nearly enough parts in my garage to rebuild a third E21? Is this a crime? I say no. Each and every part has a purpose and meaning to it and so has a place in the overall scheme of things at the BMW AutoHaus. Jeez, did I just call it that?? Don't tell my wife that I'm planning on clearing out the "third bay" of the garage to house Trixie's homecoming this Fall. Now, to search Craigslist for that lift I've been scoping for....

Bimmerfest East Weekend 2011

Great to finally place faces with the screen names of the fellow Legion members! The drive was about 7 hours and it was a wonderful time. Late night dinner wihttp://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gifth Charbel, Richard, Elvis and the crew and the next day enjoying the company of many other enthusiasts such as Tom, Steve, Jeff, and many more!

Here's the link to the photos with my captions. Enjoy!

https://picasaweb.google.com/d.r.long08/BimmerfestEast2011

Getting more Bits together: the Bimmerfest Push.

I received my shipment of RedLine transmission fluid, ordered a new retractable antenna, bought a new set of hex rachets for the tranny/ rear diff plugs, and may consider getting that fuel injector tester to replace a few injectors that have done me wrong. All before my trip down to MD for Bimmerfest this August.

Got to get this all sorted out before then because I really don't want to spend 7 hours driving with a car that misses and putts and all sorts of things on the way down. She's been really good to me, even with the incident to Toronto, but I'd like to sort things out and have her running at her best while on display in MD.

Recaro swaps: best effort to get good seats....

I've managed to spend part of Sunday swapping out my old driver seat to get the covers replaced with the donor seat and upper back panels to help fix some rips and holes. Here are some of the pics for this effort.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/webUpload?uname=d.r.long08&aid=5630515869015565505

Take a look! This is just another step closer to Bimmerfest with my new antenna and front bumper install.

4th of July Weekend: The Neverending Repairs....

Okay, that's a bit of an exaggeration. It did start out as finally installing my power radio antenna and turned into a "replace the wing panel, rustproofing, take the front euro bumper off and repaint" repair. Forget the antenna. That went back to the rear panel location (too chicken to start yet another body patch!).

Son #2 helped out and was very diligent about removing the rust! Good show! All in all, the car was apart until the third day. See the progress below:


Son helping with the surface prep and rust removal.

Shot showing layers of undercoating and new paint prior to new panel install.