Kibs

Thanks for the friendly welcome and advice. Yep, it’s getting farmed out to one of the local shops once I get the sheet metal and some quotes. I fancy myself a halfway decent mechanic- I’ve built and rebuilt everything from rotaries to turbo 4s to domestic big blocks- but I am anything but a welder. I’m good with a scraper and dry ice, though, so maybe next time we get some sun here I can start prepping for that. As for Killdozer, we adopted him thinking he was black but he is actually a very very toasted orange cat. When the sunlight hits him juuuust right, you can see his stripes and sometimes a glimpse of the singular brain cell bouncing around his head like the DVD screen saver.

Hey everyone. Been lurking and devouring the tech articles (seriously so happy those are there, I’ve fixed so much in the last few months lol) so I figure it’s finally time to say hi. I’m up in the Seattle area, but until the bimmer is up to snuff you can see me in 1 of the quarter million Subaru outbacks up here. picked up my 2nd 2002, a 74 blue 4 speed, a few months back. I believe it was originally a gorgeous Malaga, but hey I’m probably owner number 17 by now. It needs some love, and has some rust holes in the rear floor boards, under the rear seat, the rear seats themselves (found out how bad when I pulled them for an Esty rear seat delete and they uh… came out in several more pieces than usual) rockers and rear inner wheel wells. But besides that it’s sound! I’ve also had (have) a nice golf yellow that’s in pieces back in Missouri. The blue one is lowered on bilsteins and has a Weber 32/36 carb. Aside from that it looks like it’s pretty original and complete. I’ve done a full tune up and fluid change, but that’s it so far. It’ll soon be getting new corbeau seats, and will be getting some serious body tlc after that. I’ll still probably mostly lurk but if anyone in the Seattle area can recommend a good welder or body shop let me know! Hopefully I’ll see some of yall around when I’m up and running. Bonus pic of my cat Killdozer because the internet loves cats. -kibs