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Date: 5-24-08 08:35
From: HarryPR in Puerto Rico 
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins  
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That's a great looking car! My car was originally Mintgrun, and I kick myself all the time for changing colors on it. _________________ HarryPR
BMWCCA #19290
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Date: 5-25-08 09:47
From: Artistic in Surrey, B.C
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins
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| merek22 wrote: | | Very nice. What do you plan on doing to it? |
Well it's my daily driver so nothing too drastic at the moment. Right now I'm just planning on refurbishing things as I go. I restored my tail lights, following keith's method on my2002tii.com. Here are some pics.
Pulling off the tail light lens uncovered tired old reflectors.
Drowning the gasket in armour all to make it soft and usable
Removal of tail lights.
Masked off electrical terminals, and painted.
The key ingrediants
Restored tail light goes in
My spaghetti seals were shot, so I ordered new ones from Bav. Auto. $12 each for just a little strip. Yikes!
New seal goes in nicely
All finished, and ready for the tail light to be replaced.
Next step is probrably to finish my center console. I bought some vinyl for it, and hopefully will have it done in a week or so. Also am going to pick up a set of E30 14'' bbs basket weaves for it later this week.
-Andrew Poon _________________ 1972 2002 - Chamonix rusty car
1976 2002 - Mintgrun, daily driver in the summer
1980 320is - Winter daily driver
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Date: 5-27-08 12:36
From: Artistic in Surrey, B.C
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins
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Just picked up some E30 14'' BBS wheels.
Not 100% sure what size tire I need, but pretty sure it's 195/60/14? Can anyone confirm this?
Anyways, I'm pretty pleased with them, minor curbage on only 2 of the wheels. If I get new rubber, I might have them refurbished.
-Andrew Poon _________________ 1972 2002 - Chamonix rusty car
1976 2002 - Mintgrun, daily driver in the summer
1980 320is - Winter daily driver
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Date: 5-28-08 12:40
From: jgerry2002 in Brooklyn 
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins
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195/60 14 is correct..... _________________ -Justin
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'74 tii
'76 02
'97 m3
http://www.bmw2002.net
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Date: 5-29-08 06:57
From: oz_tom in Melbourne - Australia
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins
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Car looks great as is but those wheels will be a nice upgrade. Keep up the good work! _________________ 
72tii - Whitey
74 - Blacky
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Date: 7-12-08 11:49
From: Artistic in Surrey, B.C
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins
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Well I havn't really done much to the car lately, but one of the headlights burnt out, so since I was going to be replacing at least one I figured I might as well replace both with some Hella H4's.
I ordered the lights through Bav. Auto.
Taking out the old lights was pretty simple, but some of the screws were a little siezed.
Putting it back together, all the screws got a little grease to prevent them from seizing in the future.
I just did one side at a time, just to make things simple. *Note, when you remove the grills DO NOT put them on the floor, put them on a table,bench something off the ground. I almost stepped on one of mine, and it's very easy to forget about them, when they're on the ground!*
All done! Pretty nice upgrade over the stock lights. I tried to take before and after photo's, but it was really hard to tell the difference from the pictures.(I think because of how bright it was outside). The lights are definitely bright than stock.
I also scored a set of rear 6 series seats, and some thrashed recaro's. The back seats are red, but I'm probably going to dye them black. Still not sure what to do with the recaro's, especially in the condition they're in.
On the list of things to do are:
-Install new high amp alternator
-Finish wrapping center console it vinyl
-Install sound deadening (waiting on carpet)
-Install speakers, amp and deck
-Andrew Poon _________________ 1972 2002 - Chamonix rusty car
1976 2002 - Mintgrun, daily driver in the summer
1980 320is - Winter daily driver
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Date: 7-12-08 01:10
From: future_assassin in Surrey BC Canada
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins
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Hmm I'm gonna start a blog soon when I get my welder next month. So there will be two Surrey blogs here :) _________________ bmw2002.ca - Want a powered by Gmail you@bmw2002.ca e-mail? Contact me for a free account.
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Date: 8-6-08 01:50
From: Artistic in Surrey, B.C
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins
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Well I had some spare time today, so after a quick wash I thought I'd make a new parcel tray.
Since I'm changing my interior to black, I still wanted to keep all my original interior in case I ever wanted to change back. Rather than try and dye my parcel tray I thought I would make a new one.
I used 1/4inch wood, some vinyl from a local fabric store, and a million staples. It was pretty easy, but time consuming.
I used my old tray as a guide to trace out a new one, as well as to follow the method for doing the corners.
My lazy helper
All done but a little dusty.
I also picked up some Euro turn signals (thanks blunt!) And my carpet from only02 arrived. The carpet isn't as bad as some people think it is, but it's definitely no 700 dollar set. I figured if I'm not going to buy an expensive carpet, I'll at least get a really nice set of coco mats. That's what you'll see mostly anyways.
Before the carpet and dynomat goes in, the front windshield + gasket needs to be replaced. I just need to pick a good time to do it to repair a bit of rust along the top where the gasket has cracked. It's my daily driver, so this will be kind of difficult.I have a new windshield as well.
-Andrew Poon _________________ 1972 2002 - Chamonix rusty car
1976 2002 - Mintgrun, daily driver in the summer
1980 320is - Winter daily driver
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Date: 9-27-08 10:01
From: Artistic in Surrey, B.C
Subject: Re: My 1976 Mintgrun Begins
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Well it's been a while, but I've been really busy with school, so I havnt' made much progress. The mintgrun has been parked in the garage for now, and I'm driving me 1980 320is for the winter.
I've pulled the windshield on the mintgrun, because the gasket was cracked/peeling, and starting to rust.
It was actually pretty scary pulling the windshield, because I was scared I was going to break it. I sat in the passenger seat, reclined it all the way back and pushed with both my feet on the glass. Even though most of the gasket had been cut away, someone either used a glue to hold the windshield in, or 32 years of sitting next to each other created a pretty strong bond!
I'm pretty pleased with the results though. There was quite a bit less rust than I thought(all surface) and I'm happy I won't have to be doing any welding. When I purchased this car in March there was just a small little crack in the windshield gasket, and in the half a year that I drove it daily, it had gotten far worse. I'm glad I caught this early, and didn't let it get out of hand.
I've been having too much fun with the LSD in the 320is, so I picked one up for the 2002.
Here's a picture of my winter beater.
When I'm finished with the windshield, I'll take more pictures and do a proper write up about repairing it. After I'm done the windshield, I'll be pulling up the carpet, and removing the sound deadener, and fixing the drivers side floorboard. Then in goes the por-15, dynamat, and carpet.
I'll try and update more often.
-Andrew Poon _________________ 1972 2002 - Chamonix rusty car
1976 2002 - Mintgrun, daily driver in the summer
1980 320is - Winter daily driver
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