I'd find another shell and swap the drivetrain. I know there's a clean (on drive by anyway) E30 on a we-finance lot around the corner from me, but it's not a vert. says "$800 down" on the windshield. Putting a lot of time into straightening out the sheet metal only to find it's really not straight enough at the unibody would suck. Finding the right vert will be hard though.
All good responses. I'm about to take it down to the body shop and see what they say. Wish me luck!
While driving the kids to school one rainy day last week I had made a comment on how slippery the roads were, even more then I would expect. And not more then one mile further down the road we came across one of my daughters friends stuffed into the guard rail with a fairly heavy hit. She was fine, in shock mostly, but it sure was an eye opener for my daughter who is driving on her permit at the moment.
Glad Katie's OK, how did part 2 of the test go?
Some kid keeps pestering me about an audi and a bmw I will check it , I think its a 4 dr though
Tom Suddard wrote:Marjorie Suddard wrote: Bad news is that her little Beemer is pretty well pranged.IT IS BIMMER!!!!! GRRRRRRR NOT BEEMER!!!!!
That depends, do you listen to a corporation for your nicknames of products? I don't!
(But really, I just like saying Beemer to annoy BMW folks.)
dculberson wrote: (But really, I just like saying Beemer to annoy BMW folks.)
When I was 14 a beemer was a girl with erect nipples showing thru her shirt. I still prefer to picture that when anyone uses that term.
Sounds like a worthwhile pursuit!
Tom Suddard wrote:Marjorie Suddard wrote: Bad news is that her little Beemer is pretty well pranged.IT IS BIMMER!!!!! GRRRRRRR NOT BEEMER!!!!!
The cool thing is that nobody else would have dared to mention it.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote: This is the part where local spec E30 guys on the board start vying for your affections and asking if the power train is all in tact .
I'm neither local nor in spec E30 and my first thought was "glad she's okay, how much do you want for the car?"
Glad she's alright. Any accident you can walk away from isn't too bad.
Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:dculberson wrote: (But really, I just like saying Beemer to annoy BMW folks.)When I was 14 a beemer was a girl with erect nipples showing thru her shirt. I still prefer to picture that when anyone uses that term.
That's a BEAMER, not a BEEMER. Spell it correctly, please. 
Better act fast, at the rate Bill Caswell is going, there will be no clean E30s left.
Drill out a few spot welds, maybe some hammer and dolly work the attachment points and this should weld right in. I've never done a BMW but Sentras and Corollas were very easy, usually faster than trying to straighten a bent one.
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Tim has most of the parts arranged (props to Katie for choosing Carlisle weekend to crash her car). On the downside, there's too much going on in the shop right now for it to get fixed at home, so we drove it over to The Body Werks on Friday. I told Tom, the owner, that he must walk around all the time singing that old song, "Thank Heaven for Little Girls."
Margie
Mine keeps talking about getting her license. After seeing how she drove go karts I guess whatever she gets, I better get a couple extra titled body shells. 
"Rolled her E30." I thought we might have a new filter.
Marjorie Suddard wrote: .... she rolled her E30 into a Tahoe in a stop-and-go merge on the way home. A Tahoe with a trailer hitch...It needs a hood. The core support is back a good 6-8 inches, with the radiator against the engine (though it isn't leaking coolant). The condenser is toast. The driver's fender is beyond repair, and the driver's door won't open because the fender has moved out 2-3 inches and back an inch, into the driver's door. Margie
....It needs a hood. The core support is back a good 6-8 inches, with the radiator against the engine (though it isn't leaking coolant). The condenser is toast. The driver's fender is beyond repair, and the driver's door won't open because the fender has moved out 2-3 inches and back an inch, into the driver's door.
That sounds like it was a little faster than "rolled"!
Yeah, she was under power for sure, but Tommy overstated the core support movement--it's about half that, as are his other eyeball estimates. The Tahoe has a half-dozen little scratches on its bumper cover, and a little (less than 2 inches across) cut. Still had the little chrome hitch cover on it, looked fine. I think this was just a tragic mismatch of vehicles.
Margie
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