Week1 - Pull-a-part

She had a couple of days to get used to her new surroundings and get to know her older brothers that she will be spending time with in the shop - a 1957 Ford 640 tractor and a 2008 BMW 328xi coupe.

As predicted, it snowed the next day and businesses were closed for a couple days.  The first day I worked all day from home but the second day I got out into the shop and got to work rearranging things and moving the car forward so I could get to all sides, open the doors fully and have room to move large items like trunk lids and bumpers.
And here we go with the demolition!  Step one was to remove the battery so I didn't have to worry about messing with anything electrical.  I really wanted to take stuff out of the trunks too and especially examine the bodywork in the rear where I know it had been repaired.  Yeah, I said trunks, plural.  The mid-engine layout means the motor is in front of the rear wheels but behind the driver, leaving a large deep trunk in front and a shallower one in the back above the transmission.  Way cool!
The front trunk has the spare tire and fuel tank.  You have to lift up the hood just to fill er up!
The pop-up headlight motors stick out from the light housings.  Both of them work.
Note the small tube draped over the spare - the pressure for the windshield wiper fluid dispenser comes from the spare - seriously.  Later years had a motor for this I believe.  Possible retrofit!

Closeups of the headlight motors, fuel filler area (ugh) and spare.  Minimal rust or damage in the front areas, which is nice.  Wait till you see the back though.

Some interesting labels from the front trunk.  For those that were unaware the Porsche 914 was a collaboration between Porsche and Volkswagen meant to be an affordable option to a 911.  Tell me about it, have you seen used 911 prices from the same era?  Yikes.  The little 914 was looked down upon for a long time because of this but I don't really care!

Check it out: 1,220 Kilograms.  Methinks that's around 2,680 Amurrican' pounds!

 Aww little tires.  That's gonna change when it gets fender flares...

OK now for the uglies.  Took off the rear bumper and cleaned out the rear trunk.  Removed the bumper and taillights.  Yeah it's a mess of bondo on that right rear.  Lot of crushed metal that's been poorly straightened.
The 914 is unibody, meaning you can't just unbolt and replace body panels or fenders.  There's gonna have to be some cuttin' and weldin' here to get some better sheetmetal in place.  Unless someone with some skills can straighten that out...
The left rear looks as it should.

The right rear - NEIN!

Most of the gray stuff is bondo.  There's supposed to be a bumper support piece welded to the back too like on the left hand side.  gone.  Everything is bent.  It'll probably be easier to weld in a good section from a junkyard body than to try and straighten anything here.

The inside rear.  Wrinkles in the unibody, and the trunk floorpan has been replaced in the rear.  Awesome non-matching bright silver paint.  Still, the right chunks of replacement metal could fix this I'm thinkin'.

That's all I have from the first week of demolition.  This weekend I should have some more documented dismantling to share...