I’ve been a fan of the BMW 2002 ever since a club racer passed me in one turn 2 of willow springs during a driving event. I've always like the boxy style of 2002, Datsun 510’s and of course 88 m3’s. So in January of 2001 I decided to visit Ireland engineering to look at a fiberglass hood for my 88 ///M3. I got there early and while waiting for the employee to arrive and open up I noticed a dusty ’02 parked outside the shop. As I tried to peek inside the dusty windows and started to look more closely at it my mind started racing and getting bad ideas….
1 week later I was back and after arranging a price with the owner, Jeremy (Ireland employee) I was back with a check. Purchased the car rust, dust, blown head gasket and all…….
The rest is history as they say.....
In the first 5 of so years I owned this car I slowly started modifying it more and more, fixing lots of rust, doing lost of what I call racetoration.....much later I added the cage and a few more items.....
here is the car as I found it...
I moved to a house with a garage!! Imagine that!
So naturally I started on the rocky road to having new paint this Saturday. I started to remove trim and grind and use paint stripper to remove the 4 coats of paint I have on my car.
Thank god did not find any new rust and took the time to do some more seam welding and reinforcing.
I'm so happy about this garage.......
then on Sunday I went the VARA British extravaganza race for some inspiration/motivation/information session. Pics of the race to come. It was the most fun I've had at a event in years!
Here some pics from this weekend.
Here's a link to the album on my site too; CLICK HERE
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