'75 o2 project (updated 3.29.07)

[albawhore]

The latest addition to the family!!!

And the first attempt at shaving.

We should pick up some speed now. See you soon.

JB

[bmw1602.com]

congrats on the miller you will love and it should give you years of pleasaure!

great job keep it going!!!!!!!

[albawhore]

Hello all.

I have been having fun learning to weld with the Miller.

The first project was a rolling stand for the body so that I can move it around by myself.

Then I began with the trim holes and shaving the filler neck.

The next was removing the late model bumper mounts and boxing the frame back in.

Unfortunately I have that disease where I keep starting stuff and not really finishing anything. I have resolved to make task plans with rough durations so that I can grab a plan that fits the time window that I have and take each task all the way.

Anyway here are some new pix.

[JustinB]

Why did you remove the nose? Are you replacing it or do you have other plans for it? Looks like care was put into removing and making two pieces from it anyway and some prep work is being done to the outer side. Making it easier to prep and paint? I'd think that would be just a huge PITA to remove and dissect it like that, but only you know what you have planned . How is that going? It looks like you're making good progress. I've been thinking about emailing you and asking how its been going, but you got this updated.

I'm to the point of needing to decide what to do with my nose, to replace or not, but I cant decide yet until I try to fix it and see if I screw it up worse or not . Removed my fenders, theyre rusty, so I have sort of decided to jump to the back of the car and cut my wheel arches or straighten out my rear panel. Maybe I'll get around to shaving my fusebox like you did before long.

Nice work as usual, keep it up.

[albawhore]

Justin,

The nose had been installed with some of the poorest welds I had ever seen and there were some rust issues where the rad support and nose panel came together. I am going to be redesigning the rad support for the M20 so I decided to take the nose apart snd fix the rust. I will then re-attach the rad support after I strip and repaint it. Then I can do all of the custom work for the M20 more easily and I will be able to fix every surface (both sides) of the nose panel and then re-attach it.

Thanks for the props.

JB