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May 2003
Well, we finally found enough spare pennies lying around to get the media blasting done, and what did we find? A few more rust spots to fix, of course. Our body repair man, Mauro Hernandez, had a couple weeks without customer work, so he's been preparing the roof and rear panels for painting. He also has done some repairs around the roof opening.
January-February 2003: 
Cleaned up and cleaned out, the car still looked good. We found the title plate with a VIN 100155, some vintage Berlin dealer badges, and the original importation papers from when the car was imported by a Private First Class in the Army in 1956.
The driver side windows had been broken at some point and water had pooled on the floor causing it to rust away. Additionally the plywood floors at the driver and passenger foot wells had decayed and needed replacement. Other small rusty areas were found here and there and a big chunk of rusted away floor had to be fabricated for the bottom of the car at the extreme rear. Under the spare tire well we found a brand new early '50s vintage spare tire; all the other tires had rotted away.
Our first order was tires---Coker Tire was only too happy to take a fair sized chunk of our money for supplying us some nice new rubber. We blasted the wheels and gave them a nice new coat of black enamel.
Next we attacked the frozen steering. Amazing! A rack and pinion steering in 1939! But now a frozen rack and pinion in 2003. Out of the car it came for complete disassembly, cleaning, and lubrication. Reassembly with new boots (from a 320i) put the steering
back on the right track.
Our body guru, Mauro Hernandez, spent 4-5 weeks fabricating new panels to replace rusted through ones wherever needed. He removed the fenders, running boards, and nose of the car so that the metal could be cleaned and repaired properly, he completely removed all interior parts, bumpers, chrome, and stuff, getting it ready for the media blasters.