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This is a blog to follow the progress of whatever ends up happening to the 1968 BMW 1600-2 that's currently sitting in my garage.  

 

 

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Prime Time

After all the metal work, it was time to prime!     (Note to admins and readers- I couldn't format photos on this post correctly! Any time I tried to click a photo to edit it, it brought me to new page and lost all my previous saved writing! So, sorry the photos aren't like I want them to be...)   I've used a few epoxy primers, but in terms of protection, ease of use,customer support and price, SPI's epoxy primer is easily the best for me.  So I ordered some paint

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metallurgic surgery, part 4 of 4

the last thing that was to be done before calling the metal prep complete was to get all the paint and all the undercoating off of everywhere.  getting paint off of most things was easy enough with some aircraft stripper, a good respirator, and some very thick rubber gloves.     unfortunately, the wheel wells and most of the underbody were covered with anywhere from 1/8 inch to 1/2 inch of some kind of tar based undercoating which was impervious to all kinds of strippers, and that tar

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metallurgic surgery, part 3 of 4

ok, photo heavy post coming up! i'm trying to catch up on documenting the body work/welding that occurred on the old 1602, so this should bring it mostly up to speed.  lets get down to business.   the nose needed a lot of work, particularly towards the bottom. here's the drivers side after the welds and then after grinding:   and heres the passenger side:     ok, lets move on to the trunk!  it was bad.  I did my best.  I think I preserved at least 1

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metallurgic surgery, part 2 of many

After getting the drivers side inner sill in, I felt in a good place to start the floor pans!  Here's the rear one clamped in place:     You can see there that the floor pan wouldn't quite cover all of the areas that needed to be replaced.  I decided to weld in what I had and come back later with more patches.   I'd like to note that on this one, I did a butt weld, which made the whole process much more difficult.  It is not easy to cut things perfectly for a butt weld when there

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metallurgic surgery, part 1 of many

been a while since i've updated, but there has been some major work happening in the garage.  i'm much further along than what i'll share here, but i just would like to post a few images at a time.  i'm realizing i didn't take enough photos throughout the process, so i'm going to make sure i take photos of everything before i proceed much further.  will be good to have records of all the surgery!   anyways, it started by cutting out the old rusted driver side frame rail.  i don't have

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take it all off

so in order to go forward, it is time to get to the root of things.  i've got all the interior stripped, as well as the engine, and front and rear chassis and doors.  only thing left of the car is the body shell, or what's left of it!   there is much rust, and then there is more rust, and then on top of that yet even more rust!         since the photos were taken, i've also pulled off the dash.  fortunately there was no rust underneath there!  but it will make

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A 1.6 4 speed that hasn't started or shifted in at least 25 years

My first action upon getting the car was, naturally, trying to get it to start.  When I went to look at the car to buy it, the previous owner noted that it turned over and seemed to have compression, so I asked if we could try to start it.  After throwing in a battery he noted that the ignition switch was inoperable and actually missing, but he was using a screwdriver jammed into the ignition cylinder to try and start it ( a screwdriver he kindly included with the vehicle!).  He was correct— it

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An Introduction

As far I can tell, the photo above is how the vehicle sat from around 1991 or 1992 until April 2016, when the brief owner previous to me purchased it from this scrapyard.  That owner intended to use it for something but didn't, and ended up selling it to me on September 6th of this year for $600.  Before that, it was last titled in 1989 to a person in Menomenie, Wisconsin.  All records of the vehicle before that are currently unknown.     The only history that currently remains of the

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