Mad-Machine's NEW ti

[Mad-Machine]

It was time to replace my ti. Sadly, it was accident damaged (and improperly repaired) before I bought it. Thus, it has had problems since day one. The passenger door never worked right (and is all but inoperable now) and because they even bothered to paint, let alone, undercoat the floor where they did the welding, the passengerside is now missing it's floor due to rot.

So I picked up this 97 from CL. It is just a shell, doors, hatch, hood, bumpers, lights, and rear suspension. kid I bought it from killed the engine and parted the car out.

So this is what a $150 318ti looks like:









I got her home today. Learned that lesson that using a towtruck would have been cheaper, as renting a pickup and a 12x8 utility trailer from Uhaul cost me just over $300 once you factored in the gas I had to put into the truck.

that's over $2 a mile when you work it out as I only drove 128 miles.

Here she is on the trailer in all her dirty and stripped glory:





Once I get my saab out of the garage (replacing the transmission) this Ti will go in so I can get the body stripped down and prepped for a nice coat of Calypso. Then I can start transferring the good bits of my 96 ti into the 97

[familytruckster]

Yeah, yeah.... Saw the thread on GRM.

Does look good though, sucks about the towing cost.

[318_mzk2]

Nice.. Body seems to be in decent shape .

How bad is the crashed Ti you have?

[Mad-Machine]

body is not crashed.. it's rotting away to nothing. The passengerside floor is gone, the passengerside wheel well is going, and the rot is getting into the mounting point for the rear crossmember.

They basically never painted over or treated anything they welded and I didn't realise this until it was far too late to take care of it

[318_mzk2]

Dam

what are you going to do with the body. I need a front clip .
And pass side front strut tower/ ect ect

[Mad-Machine]

if by front clip, you mean fenders and hood.. not sure I can help you. The hood on mine is dented from the inside by somebody leaving something inside and slamming the hood closed (I didn't do it, honest) and I beat up the driver's side fender and door getting it off of the trailer. I do have a passenger side fender and I would be willing to cut out the strut tower for you..

It's just going to be a few months till I get to that point, if you wait.

[318_mzk2]

Shoot me a text 9088038826 an we can talk about it. I'm in jersey also

[318_mzk2]

any update on the shell