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  • mad_machine

    May 23, 2011 11:34 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    Crawling under my Ti this winter to replace the exhaust, I noted that the shell is a goner. Rust has taken most of the passengerside floor, sill, and the rear archs. The floor and sill are from an improperly replaired (and never reported) accident that saw most of the car cut open, welded up, and cheaply painted. they never even bothered to paint the welds on the floor..

    Today, I found a guy Stripping a Ti not 30 miles from me. Also a 96, I offered him 400 for the shell and he accepted. Once I get the saab up and running again, I can start transferring my mechanically sound parts from Ti to Ti.

    Have to paint it first.. it is white.. I love my Calypso Red too much

  • JeffHarbert

    May 23, 2011 11:51 p.m. JeffHarbert Reader

    Hmm. What about the VIN? Isn't it stamped on the firewall?

  • mad_machine

    May 23, 2011 11:55 p.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    I am getting the title..

    So it is just a matter of registering this shell as a "new" car to me.. it will just contain my old parts

  • mtn

    May 24, 2011 1:46 a.m. mtn SuperDork

    I hate Calypso red.

  • May 24, 2011 6:15 a.m. stan SuperDork

    Good find (and luck!).

    I Hate Rust.

  • mad_machine

    May 24, 2011 6:36 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    Calypso seems to have that effect on people. I find it one of BMW's more pretty and unsung colours.

    I can have the shell in a month when the guy is finished stripping what he wants off of it.. which is fine with me.. gives me a month to get rid of the NG900 I still have

  • mtn

    May 24, 2011 11:18 a.m. mtn SuperDork

    mad_machine wrote:

    Calypso seems to have that effect on people. I find it one of BMW's more pretty and unsung colours.

    Nope, thats not it. You see, in 2004, we got a burgundy Chevy truck. About three months later, we got a burgundy Volvo. Then, in 2005, we got a Calypso Red 318 (see readers rides). By this point we weren't tired of it, and in any case, we bought cars on the car, not the color. Fast forward to 2008, the truck and the Volvo are gone (or will be in a month), and we get a Calypso berkeleying red 525. There are two of them in our garage right now. I'm sick and tired of it.

    In all reality though, it is one of my favorite BMW colors. I'm just tired of burgundy.

  • mad_machine

    May 24, 2011 11:27 a.m. mad_machine SuperDork

    ah! yes.. too much of a good thing!

  • neon4891

    May 24, 2011 11:56 a.m. neon4891 SuperDork

    Nice score.

 
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