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matt's body shop 700 1989

I beat the hood mostly flat using several blocks of wood and a sledge (thanks Chris for the tip) and pulled out the latches with rope and an oak tree. The hood now closes and latches completely, and even pops up when I pull the hood release inside the car. So it's operating like new, but looks like shit. Will be good enough though. I might try to flatten out the crease a little more. The left headlight assy will be OK, the alignment bracket was bent up a little bit but I think I have it bent back into shape. The plastic trim is broken in a couple places but I think glue can fix that. The right fender still needs some work, I need to find my big pipewrench and try to bend the point back up so the parking light will go into place, the right side plastics are also a loss. The radiator isn't leaking and the pressure is being held inside it although i'm not sure I trust it. The A/C still works too.

I might be able to patch this back together and make it inspection-worthy for much less than I originally thought.







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Matt L. -- Cary, NC -- '91 740 wagon








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    matt's body shop 700 1989

    Crapan!!! Thats a new one and very very funney well at it. When i bought my 89 745 it also had front end damge hehe love getting them wrecked good prices, cost me less then $500 bucks to put the entire front end back together minus the hood, i have one in the garge i am holding until i have the car painted, i ended up replacing everything on the front of the car, hedlight holders, all the plastic, turnsignals you name it if it was there it was replaced, bent the frame arms the hood mounts into back into place with a crow bar, hood closes nicley now, and even got the radiator to sit properly again, though i still will be taking it to a body shop to have the arms straightned to proper specs so when the new hood is put on it sits correctly, i wish you luck on this it isnt to hard to put it all back together and make most of it straight again, took me 2 days, make sure to pick up some motor mounts and the tranny mount as i am sure if there not broken there close to it by now and replace those while your working on it, there designed to break with impacts like yours.







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