hahaha Prew

 

Who are you using for insurance? I insure through American Collectors. My premium was something like $340 for an entire year. I was clipped by a BMW and got repaired at something like $10k... when it came time to renew my insurance I was POSITIVE they would simply reject me outright. Turns out they renewed my policy at an increased premium of $365 per year. Just an FYI!

Digging the progress

 

I'm using Hagerty for my other nice car. I'm switching to American Collectors after I get this car finished.

I'm currently using geico for this one. I can't use AC or Hagerty because this is my primary daily driver.

 

In for updates. PS looks like the side of your car was revisited by the ninja wheels.

 

I've heard wolverine referenced alot.

 

hahah prew ftw. i say new avatarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

Out of all the members of this forum, Andrew is the one MOST in need of a new avatar.

 

So I got my seats and some bodywork done at bubbletech.


My rear fenders aren't as knifey as before.

Recaros are back!


Swapping the seats gave me a good opportunity to rip up the front carpet and check for mold or mildew (which there was) from some water that spilled from the AC drain hose that wasn't secured correctly before. Hence the ripped up carpet and paper towels.

Next step was to remove some interior panels for the installation of a new rear 1/4 panel or save some labor and to save broken tabs!




By now it wasn't to late and the FD dissecting party was coming to a close. Everyone felt pretty damn good about themselves and the night was young. I also just happened to have a new 3rd party carpet that accidently came to my address (was going to install it in the future). Well, I guess you can guess what happened next and you can guess that it took longer than anyone thought.

What are friends for if not to exploit and use as slaves and cheap labor!



Vroom vrooom


99 spec bumper. Shhhhh.


Check out all this dirt! I also managed to find almost a buck worth of change down here. Better than finding used condoms (right duls?).



Thank you Polak Graphics (buy stuff!), Andy X and David.

 

and the cops didnt show up? disassembling the car in the parking lot...LOL!!!

 

It's an indoor lot hahaha.

 

i think you should have left it to sink.

 

I can't. It's like my stepchild now.

 

more like one of your own children, bleeding you dry until you want to end it all! lol

 

which carpet did u end up going with?

 

what is this free labor? LOL
"Hey guys want to hang out?"
"Sure"
"Hey guys want to help me out for sec?"
"Sure"
"uhhhh... wait a moment, why are we pulling the carpet out of his car and installing seats???"

 

love the black recaros and the enthusiastic posing lol

 

Just a 3rd party one. I would have maybe went OEM but Abdul and Andy wanted to try installing the 3rd party one for fun I guess.

HAhAHAHAHA my carpet was NOT my idea.

 

I'm starting to realize that having so many interior parts in my room is having consequences for the environment. Check out what the cat just barfed up!

 

I want to sell my FD now!!!

 

lmk if you wanna look into repairing those recaros...Im sure i could find some material that matches.

-Austin

 

I appreciate it. Thanks man.

 

So a bunch of people asked me to update this thread for a while but honestly, nothing has been happening with the car. I finally decided to post when I started watching my backlog of movies and realized I'd rather revel in my automotive misery than watch Resident Evil: Retribution, which is terrible btw. I don't know why I'm surprised because all the other ones were just so bad. Zombies shouldn't be able to run. It's total bullshit. O **** now Michelle Rodriguez is fucked. Anyway, as usual for a NJ bodyshop, a 2 - 3 week project (max) has so far taken more than 3 months which is just fantastic. I visisted the shop once in a while to check for progress. After about a month and a half, the shop finally started doing some work.


Hey not bad right??

A month after that passes by and bam we have more updates.

Hmmm weird I don't like that the car is left outside after primering but hey what do I know.


Check out this rear. Primer overspray?


Wow this movie is bad. Anyway, so that's pretty much the update. Sorry that kind of sucked. Well I guess I can post up some other interesting pics.

This is my FD when I picked up my 99 spec bumper from my man Dennis.


This is from Hurrican Sandy. Our underground garage downstairs was in danger of being flooded so this poor Lambo owner had to park upstairs. THE HUMANITY...

He had to get the car jump started. Haaaa.

This was some weird Hitler statue I found while somewhere in NJ. It scared the crap out of me.


This is a terrible movie. I think I'm going to go to bed. I enjoyed Twilight much more. In case you haven't seen it, here is a review that helped some people out.

Soooo I just saw Twilight. I recommend it to everyone. Movies like this don't come out ever. I'm going to change tenses now because the movie still lives in me and will live on forever. It is truly a tour de crap. It is hilariously bad and over serious. Please watch it. I felt terrible for all the actors. It looked like they were high in all the scenes to forget the pain of being in the movie. Taylor Lautner gave the best performance in the movie and I think it's because he has no shame. The movie also featured the most awkward looking CG character I have ever seen. It wasn't uncanny valley awkward. I can't describe it. It's what would happen if you asked a 5 year old to draw a girl and then paid millions for the best CG artists to bring it to life. A great parallel to the movie series. Wow how deep. I've never seen a movie that combined the worst parts of so many other lesser movies to truly become larger than the sum of its terrible parts, sort of like mixing Coke and Mentos.

For people who haven't seen...
We fell in love so fast (ultra slow motion coke-mentos experiment) on Vimeo


This was the Usain Bolt of terrible movies. Every minute of the movie that passed by was like a long, effortless stride of crap. It was almost as if the creators of the Twilight series made the movie to make fun of all the fans. Even though I never liked the Twilight series I felt really bad for the fans that waited so long for the end.

No joke fellas, watch the movie.

 

lol i couldnt tell if i was looking at your build thread or a rotten tomato review lolol the door panel clip you cat barffed up is hilarious hahaa

 

This thread wins so hard, haven't read the updates in a while. VIVA TITANIC!

Dale

 

Lololol, this thread is amazing. Cat barfing up car parts is a classic.