My name is Earl, and I have a Stainless Steel bolt fetish =)

[patsbimmer1]

When I was 16 I took my dads 2001 F150 out for a drive because I wanted to practice driving stick.  When I brought it back I put it in the driveway and put it in gear but forgot the parking brake.  At some point later I walked past a window and saw my dad's truck had rolled out of the driveway, into the road and across the street and hit a curb and stopped.  Thankfully my dad didn't see it and I was able to get it back in the driveway and park it properly.

[HipMF]

bump

[Jdesign]

HipMF said:

bump

@Earl hasn't touched it because......(insert no excuse here)

[Earl]

Not really anything to update for the most part. Some undercoat was removed last December-roughly February of this year. I assembled my passenger front seat for the last time the other day so now both seats have restored bases. 

The only big news is that there is about to be a severe lack of wrinkle black...

[REKIII]

Earl said:

I assembled my passenger front seat for the last time the other day

Ha!  'For the last time'  Sure....

You do realize we've all been paying attention.  In a week, or month we'll see a new update something like this:

'So, I thought I was done with the passenger seat when I assembled it last time.  When I was in there, I noticed a pan head screw that looked just.....well, wrong.  So, in my free time between picking out Ascots and dinner flatware I researched which screws BMW really used inside the seat, you see, this screw was unique to the passenger seat in 318ti's and varied by VIN number so it wasn't something I could just get anywhere.  After extensive research and some rough translated phone calls to retired BMW assembly workers (time difference was tough to schedule calls) I found out that the screw in my seat was not factory!  The photo evidence just couldn't be denied!  I was disgusted, and couldn't sleep.  The next morning I called the dealer to order.  They said I couldn't order it......I explained who I was and what I was doing and they said they still could't get it for me.  Now what? I wasn't finished.  I decided to take the screw I had (the dirty non-factory one) and the pictures of the actual screw I had collected from my new german friends and drew up a schematic to have one made.  I had a local machine shop turn it for me, took it to the heat treating place we use at work to get it hardened to the proper spec, then sent it off to the zinc plater for the proper gold coloring.   After all this, I re-assembled the seat for the last time....again.....I think......and finally got a good nights sleep.'

[GunMetalGrey]

Hahaha, the accuracy of that is almost too good! 
Not knocking ya Earl, as your attention to detail is impressive, but it totally sounds like something you may have typed!

[SteelBlue]

REKIII said:

They said I couldn't order it......I explained who I was and what I was doing and they said they still could't get it for me.

[YoungCR]

Earl said:

The only big news is that there is about to be a severe lack of wrinkle black...

This best be a M51 swap

[GunMetalGrey]

YoungCR said:

This best be a M51 swap 

I would be curious to see how to get that stateside.
Not that I am looking for one or anything...

[Earl]

YoungCR said:

This best be a M51 swap 

Oh boy do I wish that was the case. Some day

[Earl]

GunMetalGrey said:

I would be curious to see how to get that stateside.
Not that I am looking for one or anything...

Canada=)

[Jdesign]

No progress report. I just had to move Earls car and noticed that its more gangsta than I expected.... Ignore my annoying voice.

MCDY2240.MP4

[Earl]

Hey fake news. Progress was made yesterday but it's actually reverse progress...

[Rekpoint]

patsbimmer1 said:

Damn it @Earl, respond to my text.

Some say, He still hasn't responded.

[Jdesign]

This car moved a few months ago, and will be moving again in a few days. I will take some pictures

….and no, none of it will be forward progress, just me rearranging things. 

[patsbimmer1]

I've always wondered how barn finds come to be... and here we are lol.

Earl's kids will finish this some day.

[GunMetalGrey]

I vote for weekly bumps until he does something with it.

[KaiserRolls]

GunMetalGrey said:

I vote for weekly bumps until he does something with it. 

Bump

[Partiallypurple]

Bump

[HipMF]

At work replying to my own emails where I asked people questions and got no response...