This is how I found my '84 BII.
I had to tow it home and replace
the wiring and computer to get it
to run. Not long after I found this
site and durasparked it.....

After discovering that the steering colum
was broken, I took it to a friend to weld
while it was down I decided to do the body
work.....

Here is a picture of it in my friends
paint booth. I decided to go cheap and
just do a single stage urethane. It
looked great for awhile but the dead
silver bled through the sealer.

I made some new door panels and decided to black out the chrome. I bought some equipment paint at tractor supply and broke out the DA. I was able to score a set of leather buckets at the bone yard and decided gray wouldn't work. I bought some dye and sprayed them black. I need to take them out and redo as the cracks have lost their color. It gives them a "weathered" look.

I have been procrastinating repainting her all summer. As soon as the temps dropped below 80 I went to work on the exterior. This time I used plenty of sealer/primer and painted her myself in my shop. I opted for a two-tone and sprayed a base coat clear coat......hope it lasts!!!

Plans are to buy some bigger meats once the 9x50's wear out. I have put a 2" suspension lift on it and will try to go with 11x50's next time.

Some pics on the interior work. I bought some material at the fabric source for the door panels and some oddball headliner material they had marked down for next to nothing to put behind it as foam padding. I also redid the headliner and dyed the cloth back seats black as the red stripes never appealed to me! I took out the carpet in the cargo bay and just sprayed some bedliner out of a rattle can in there instead.

I decided to try the cheap approach to fixing the cracked and torn dash. Someone decided they needed my CD player last year and really made a mess of my bezel and dash. Not to bright considering all you have to do is take out the bezel.....oh well if they were smart they would have taken the $200 or so in tools I was carrying at the time. I sanded it down and filled in the cracks with bondo. Since some of the cracks were 4 to 5 mm in width it would have been much better to use flexible filler such as the stuff you can mend rubber bumpers with. I then sprayed some bulldog adhesive promoter on and another rattle can of bedliner. Since I like the smell so much I used some on my new E-Bay bezel and console also.....