#Goals Things are moving along on the car! The motor rebuild has made driving the car a blast. I am driving around like a menace and I love it!! Last year I had 3 major things on my list and tons of minor things. The … Continue readingApril 2017….New list of things to complete! #goals
This has been a long term project that is near completion. I have posts about the process in previous posts so I won’t go into specifics. I wrapped my refreshed BBS wheels in Hankook Ventus V2 195/50 tires. Since they are ET40 I will need … Continue readingBBS Rims and Hankook tires…Test fitting! #BBS
These wheels began their lives on a pretty hot car in its day. An 80’s era Mazda RX-7 convertible. They were stock wheels for that car. Mazda had BBS make a pretty special wheel for the car. It was a a 15 inch wheel with … Continue readingProject BBS Lightweight! From start to finish.
OK..so I was going to do the polishing myself because I wanted to do as much as possible. I called a local BMW 2002 guy who sells rims and has offered polished lips in the past if he had any advice on doing it and … Continue readingBBS Rims…ONE STEP CLOSER! Look at those lips!
Did a quick impromptu shoot of the car. Here are a few images.
I’m pushing forward with finishing the car and the door seals were challenging but are pretty much done so I wanted to test fit the wheels since the were redrilled and painted just to get an idea of how they will look. Well I’m pretty … Continue readingBBS test fitting!
So the car had some dust on it and I decided to clean her up a bit. So I used some Meguires Qwick Detailing Mist and a sift cloth to wipe the dust off and restore the shine. I also removed the license plate and … Continue readingFirst Wash…well sort of….More Parts Come in!
Now that the BBS wheels have been redrilled I wanted to fully refurbish them. So that means polishing the lips to a mirror shine. Putting a few coats of paint on the centers and also painting the hex nut on the center caps. First I … Continue readingBBS Wheel rehab!
I have been searching for wheels for the 02. I wanted something classic looking, yet unique. I also wanted something that fit properly and DEFINITELY 15″. So that left only a few options. 15×7 ET25 is the most aggressive fitment for a 2002. My current … Continue reading15″x6.5″ BBS RZ Lightweights Fill and Drill
Barrett Jackson auctioned off a 74 BMW 2002 over the weekend and it went for…$125,000! The proceed went to charity but still that’s a huge number! It wasn’t a Turbo. It wasn’t a Tii. It wasn’t some rare European model from the factory. It was … Continue reading$125,000?!?!?!