After being rear ended in December of 2018 I knew I wasn’t going to be able to get started on the repair of my old 1969 BMW. The repairs will take a while… I had to move to Arizona, find a body shop that will work with me and find someone who knows what they are doing, the latter is the hard part.

Most of the replacement parts I already have. the bumper, the rear tail lights and the extra emblem and ‘2002’ marker. the rest will have to be discussed in detail with the auto body shop when I deliver it next week.

I started to take most of the damaged parts off and trunk floor panels to see just how bad it was going to be.

(I already have it registered in AZ with the classic car plates, or cars older than a certain date you don’t have to have emissions done.)

I also wanted to get the old bumper polished before I take it over.

Both took a while and now in the AZ heat, in the garage I can work in the morning for about two hours before I have to come inside. (Should have taken a before picture)

My concern was for the throat of the gas tank, but so far it looks pretty good.

This cross beam in the trunk center looks pretty bad.

Before (Left) and after (Right) of the bumper middle section, it looks really good and with a bit more elbow grease I think it turned out very good. 

I will be sure to take more photos as the repair comes along. Here are a few more from right after the collision happen back in Colorado.