Tuesday: After some "new" wheels. A dry cleaning (wiped her down). Fixed the trunk latch. Still need to take apart driver door to get that latch working. After I took the pictures, I cleaned most of the leaves out of her crevasses. Tried taking the bumper mounts out. Got the bolts and such undone, but couldn't get them to come out of the bumper. It was dark and freezing out though.
Thursday: Took the air gun and blew all of the leaves and dirt out of the engine bay, wiper cowl, trunk area, etc. I found quite a few wasp nests. SCARY!!! Thank goodness it is still winter out and they were all dorment or dead.
I cannot wait to get the driver door latching, so I can give her a good bath. I REALLY cannot wait to get her running so I can drive her.
I got a freeze plug for her yesterday, so need to install that. Get some coolant in her. Change her oil. And then go from there :)
Enjoy the cleaner pictures of her. The engine bay pictures were before I cleaned it out.
Meet Eva
My 1972 BMW 2002
121k miles
Shock towers are all solid. Not a whole lot of rust anywhere to speak of. Don't get me wrong there is some, most surface and a few spots are a little more owwie. Glass is good. Trim is all there (needs some TLC). Interior is in GREAT shape minus being dirty (that can be said about the whole car though). Dash is cracked. Which is fine. Maybe I will make a cool aluminum one.
She has been sitting in a garage for the past 12 years, because she stopped running (I am guessing/hoping ignition) and the owner didn't want to fix it or find out what was wrong. The freeze plug is missing, but I am hoping that is from it sitting for so long, in Colorado winters in a garage and the water finally froze and popped it out, wish me luck there.
Trunk, driver door and hood do not latch but that is not a big deal, easily fixable.
They had tried selling her previously with no interest (just a sign in her windshield, no ads placed) for $1,500. They called the junk yard whom told them $350 if they brought the car in. I found out about this car through a vendor at my work (was his sister's car) and he said if I come get it he will take $300 for her. I could NOT pass the deal up. Picked her up on Sunday.
I thought Eva (pronounced like eve-ah) was the perfect name. Classy yet ladylike.
Plans are to keep it pretty much stock, at least for now. But fix her up. I plan on flat white paint (I am going to try and add a pearl in the flat, we will see how that comes out... it worked awesome on the 2009 SL63IWC). Black wheels. And that's all you are getting for now
After I clean her up I will take better pictures. I was sick of messing around in the freezing cold and snow after getting her off the trailer to get alot of pictures or even to get my camera out, so these are just from my phone.
Enjoy my first collector car!
The following was written by a dear friend of mine, David Brodd. And I cannot agree with him more, truthfully.
The cash for clunkers program. C-A-R-S was the acronym.
What was it intended to do?
Stimulate the economy? By doing what? Helping poor people buy better cars so that they could get to work on time and pollute a little less and drive a safer car?
Problem is, POOR PEOPLE cannot make car payments. Even if they had a qualifying vehicle, they could not make the payments after the rebate was applied. So who really bought cars through this program? Middle class shmucks who allowed their greed to smash any sense of ethics or morals. People who were probably going to buy a car next year, but the program caused them to buy it now.
So, who buys the cars NEXT year? NOT the people who were GOING TO buy one next year, but bought it during CARS....
Again, if this program was supposed to help people who need better cars, why on earth would you do something which causes all used car prices to skyrocket? (as in - a lot of good 1000 to 2000 dollar cars got turned in because they were now artificially 'worth' 3500 to 4500 dollars)
You do not 'help' any people by getting rid of the decent middle-lower price range cars.
You do not 'help' the economy by artificially moving sales forward in time.
You do not 'help' the environment by causing running engines to belch smoke as the government mandated concoction destroys the engine as it runs for it’s last hour.
You do not 'help' the economy by taking a running vehicle (a mild polluter) and melting it down (HUGE polluter) to manufacture another vehicle (more pollution) or send the scrap to China or India, where they pollute about 80 gazillion times more than we do.
I have never seen so many government programs that do the EXACT OPPOSITE of their stated goal.
It is either stupidity, or it is on purpose.
The three main cars you see in these photographs all get better mileage, have better tires, are in better condition, and pollute less than any of the vehicles I own. These photos were taken yesterday - September 9, 2009 - in Fremont, NE.
This program was a vote-buying scam. At best.
God have mercy on the USA. 
Well, I had jury duty today @ county court.
What a clusterf*ck.
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I get there at about 7:45, I needed to be there between 8am-8:30am. Got all my stuff handled. They didn't even talk to us or what have you until say 9am at minimum. Fawk around a little more.
They let 73 people go home because one of the 2 court cases was canceled. I was NOT in that group.
45 people left. Civil Hearing (couple broke up, seperated, beat each other, etc.) Watch stupid video. Get juror number (#10) however I was 7th in line when they lined us up somehow.. that didn't make much sense?
Group interviews. I was a biotch and showed my disapproval of the dude's actions... and my feelings towards abusive men. Then lunchtime. Cafeteria non useable in courthouse.. I thought they were supposed to feed you anyways? OK off 2 McDonalds...
Back from lunch.. they excused some people.. not me though.
Back to courtroom. I move from juror #10 to juror #2. You know what that means? I'm on the case... well after they seated everyone where they wanted us... they could do their peremptory challenge... AKA each side (plaintiff and defense) get to boot up to 5 people from the current Jury. Guess who was booted first by the guy's lawyer? Una was :-) My plot to make them hate me worked.
It wouldn't have been so bad if it was a one day trial, but it would have been 4 flipping days. And I cannot afford that time or money missing.
Anywho. I'm off, back to work tomorrow. Thank goodness, I have alot to do.
So get there 7:45am. Get dismissed about 2pm. Accomplished? NOTHING. Being good at being a bitch when needed? Priceless.
