1978 318 Pastellblau - Norway

[E21noob]

Yeah maybe

In the meantime:

[uwbuurman]

Oh man.... Nice!!!

[Jeroen]

Porn!

[arshad76]

Those seats look stunning. Great quality leather too by the looks,of,it.

[pandemonium001]

WOW love the seats

[E21noob]

Thanks. They are very nice. Can't wait to get them in.



OEM recaro brackets make it sit a little high, so will see if I use some of polov8 ideas on DIY brackets.

It's going to be a while though, currently car is looking a little shabby



Update coming. It involves rust.

[Jeroen]

Oops, you ran into a rusty floor pan then? Bummer! On a lighter note, then you don't need these wonderful seats so you can leave them with me

[Duracel79]

They look really special. Like them a lot.

Ben

[E21noob]

So........who ordered RUST?!

Lets take a look at the right corner first. As you know I knew there was something there from the state of the corner of the wing, so no suprises when the carpet came out:



Not too bad at all really, but needs to be taken care of before it gets out of hand. I have already had the rear subframe of and everything under there looked in really good shape. A few small brown patches that I will take a look at, but that was it.

Looks like someone liked the idea of jacking it up here..





Always more then you want to believe - once you start looking you shall find:









Only a few small patches that need to be looked at under the wing though, so thats good news.






Cutting out the bad, trying to think smart and not cut too much:





I'm way out of my depth here and learing a ton - luckly MortenM has offered me some help and guidance!

[uwbuurman]

You made a good start on repairing! Keep it up! Just take a look in my 323 topic, under 6cilinder.

[E21noob]

You made a good start on repairing! Keep it up! Just take a look in my 323 topic, under 6cilinder.

Man - I can tell you you are my mentor - you just didn't know it

[uwbuurman]

Wha, always ready for questions mate!

[Jeroen]

Good luck man, even though these are the known E21 rust spots it means there's work to be done.

[E21noob]

Thanks guys

Been making plenty of progress, and Morten has been showing of his welding skills.

Got the right side cut out and cleaned up:


Draining holes or whatever they are before and after. Luckily only superficial rust!




Abit of the sill around the jacking point coming out:





Over to the left side, which doesn't look too bad at all around the corner...well at least most of it is still there:







Looks grim:







A little more damage inside the wheel arch:






Changed the plans for the seats.......................................got something real special...




Got check into a warm hospital room:

[uwbuurman]

Will you sell the leather seats?