Uwbuurman: 1978 323i polaris: almost done

[uwbuurman]

The last spots on the car are sorted and completely sprayed with filler.
Before spraying the filler the car was cleaned with compressed air. A lot of sand and dirt we found…



Here you see the epoxy and filler (wet in wet painted).





Also on the sounddeathaning plates





Half done half not

[uwbuurman]

[uwbuurman]

We already saw some polaris on the hinges of the bonnet and bootlid and some little stuff. Old BMW’s with an Uni colour are painted inside and out in the same paint. But the metallic ones not. They have no clear coating on the inside, so the paint is not as bright and shiny as the outside.

To have that same effect, but still apply the most recent products, my painter suggested an Engine bay paint. That has a brightness of about 75% of the normal metallic coating, no clear coat, but much better resistant against cemical substances, like petrol, oil and ATF. So I decided to have the inside, the enginebay, the boot and the underside painted in the engine bay. Polaris, of course.

The first paint was for the bootlid.





After that the bonnet

[uwbuurman]

The enginebay





The inside





The boot



The valance



And the roofplate

[BuschBertl]

One of the nicest days of restoring is paint day - i am very happy for you.

[jimbob]

wow, such a clean shell for the paint to go on

[uwbuurman]

Thanks! I'm very happy with it!

[uwbuurman]

So we have the first Polaris!! On with the rest!
Sunroof, outside.







Inside covered, because thats already painted in the Enginebay coating.



Bootlid the same



The first layers give some structure. Thats needs to be sanded out.



After the block and the machine some powder on it. The black powder shows imperfections.



Tape in the lid so we can sand in the edge.

[uwbuurman]

[uwbuurman]

After that the front wings are prepared.
The anti stonechip on the inside and the lower part of the wings





And some primer and filler, wet in wet.







The ugly hole is gone!

[uwbuurman]

[uwbuurman]

Here is the first Polaris metallic!!!

[uwbuurman]

This concludes my end of the year rallye to post all the pics of my progression on the E21. This year no more. (I'm glad tomorrow is a whole new year!!)

I wish everybody a great and succesfull 2016, in good health!

[cobbler2u]

sweet

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Hope you have a Happy New Year! Amazing job! I'm really looking forward to what the end result was.