Pastellblau Restomod

[bluebmw]

What wheels (size, offset, tires) are on your car? They look great!

Which picture are you referring to?

[doog]

Sorry: I was referring to the picture referenced by "What I'm going for."

Thanks.

[bluebmw]

After painting the car with glasurit and shaving the sidemarkers and knee trim, I decided that now wasn't the time to let off.

New parts:

Brand New Euro turn signals

Headlight stoneguards

New Grills

Very nice Euro bumpers with NLA Amco badge bar on the front

Ti/SA wheels

Bilstein Sports with New H&R springs

Near mint condition Scheel Seats (black)

Let me know what you think!

[bluebmw]

The euro bumpers are now on with custom made brackets on the front.

[bluebmw]

I picked up some tisa wheels that I will be refinishing. Hopefully they will fit with their low offset of ~15

[bluebmw]

Just messing around with photoshop. Maybe I'll do something like this, but with a more mild drop.

[bluebmw]

I took the car out today for a spin to the beach and finally took some out-of-garage photos. There's still work to be done, but it's driveable and that's what counts.

[bluebmw]

Installed my euro turn signals, muflaps, and temporarily my Tisa wheels before I drop them off to be powder coated. I really need to lower it, but I'm loving the look so far!

[bluebmw]

Started sandblasting my tisa steel wheels today. They all had major surface rust, but the sand took care of that real fast and they are cleaning up quite nicely to my pleasant surprise.

Pulling the tires off for the first time in probably 30 years.

The wheel on the right was stripped of paint to get a better look before everything was blown off from sandblasting.

One wheel (almost) down, three to go.

[malagalaga]

Looks great, I love pastellblau! I nearly bought one almost identical to yours.

One hint: When taking beauty shots of your car, keep the sun to your back.

[bluebmw]

Looks great, I love pastellblau! I nearly bought one almost identical to yours.

One hint: When taking beauty shots of your car, keep the sun to your back.

Thanks for the compliment and the tip! FYI, I'm using my phone to take pictures, so calling them beauty shots might be a stretch!

[bluebmw]

I took off the badge bar/bumper bar, which took all of about 10 minutes. It was a major visual change to the car and I like it, looks much cleaner. Don't get me wrong, bumper bars are cool, but I think they suite a roundie better with chrome grills.

Here's me sporting my new sticker at the grocery store. Just look who I happen to run into, a beautiful local BMW 2000 that belongs to Kit (kiva667)!

[kiva667]

Here's me sporting my new sticker at the grocery store. Just look who I happen to run into, a beautiful local BMW 2000 that belongs to Kit (kiva667)!

Nice! I was kicking myself for not having a camera to get a pic of your car.

[bluebmw]

Lowered it the other day on Bilstein sports and H&R progressive springs all the way around.

Here's some comparison shots between the lowered 02 and the lifted tundra, the top of the tundra's tire is above the belt line trim... Crazy!

[bluebmw]

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