Fresh pics*

My buddy Chris is one hell of a photographer. We went out on Saturday and he took these pics of my 318is. I've spent less than $1500 on the car, including the purchase price. I bought it wrecked. You can check out my build at [URL]http://www.rede30.blogspot.com[/URL]. Check out Chris' Flickr photostream at [URL]http://www.flickr.com/photos/ocell/[/URL] and his site [URL="http://www.ocell.net/"]www.ocell.net[/URL]

From rat to rad!

I painted the rear of the car first, over my Thanksgiving vacation. I didn't have time to prep and paint the front end until Christmas vaca. The good thing was, I was able to remove all the panels that needed to be painted and paint them off of the car, fortunately I had a spare hood off an old parts car that kept my motor dry while I deove it like this.... A pic of my shop as I wait for a painted fender to dry some before placing it i the sunlight. Almost everything is painted and curing under the warm Florida sun. I let everything dry overnight before I assembled it the next day. I think it turned out really nice. All i have left to do is paint the rocker panels black, and finish installing my interior. I have a buddy whos a photographer and were going to do a photoshoot of the finished car in the near future.

Shaving the antenna hole

The first thing I did was remove the antenna and all its internals. I spliced a short cable from the antenna to the rear window defogger. I then found a piece of scrap metal... and cut it to fit over the hole. I used my grinder to clean the paint off the metal, and I then welded the patch panel on. The next step was to cover the area with a paper thin coat of bondo, and sand it smooth. I took advantage of repairing all of the other small nicks and dents on the entire panel while i was at it. Once the panel was ready I sprayed a generous coat of primer. Stay tuned to see how the car turned out.