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Message: <blockquote data-quote="MyLittlePony" data-source="post: 1473227" data-attributes="member: 11359">EDIT - It won’t let me delete a post. I replied to “I’ve seen things that were put back together worse.” Not “I’ve seen worse that were put back together.”my precious beloved e30! The first car I ever owned, got it when I was 14!... ...totaled it one morning in 1998. Father sold it as a parts car to a guy who wanted the engine. 8 years later, the car resurfaces, abandoned for several years behind a shop. The registration was never updated, and the guy who left it could not be found. In the glove box was a receipt of the repairs $1600. The customer was not the man my father sold it to.So what does $1600 get you? They cut up the front passenger corner of a coupe, and welded it onto the battered convertible. Coupes and convertibles are apparently different in length due to the added reinforcement. They didn’t measure anything, so doors and hoods never could be shut properly. They also welded it in sections, not completely so water would get in. And if you removed the rocker panel, you could see the ground! I drove that car for three years while we did an engine swap on the mustang, and neon, which had bent a piston rod when driven into a flooded street. But towards the end, the only thing keeping that quarter on the car was the crossmember brace, and the after market strut tower brace, which had to be modified to fit properly due to the misalignment of the work done.[ATTACH=full]6761[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]6762[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]6763[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]6764[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]6765[/ATTACH]</blockquote>