Yea, but it was a total salvage. Hard hit in the front and the deal was I would pay for the parts but she had to do much of the work.
We stripped the old front end off and bought after market "cool" stuff like the CF hood and "m" looking parts and the rims cheaper than replacing them with real BMW parts.
Although, we found that the wrecking yard did replace the core support with one from a different series (3 series) to make it look not as wrecked, so that was a budget issue. It was not the 1 series core support that killed her budget, but all of the clips, bolts etc that are different.
She does work very hard as a Veterinary technician, which was a job she got at 15. They did not want someone under sixteen but she pled her case and went over the office managers head directly to the vet owner and got the job. Now shes one of the lead techs after school and weekends.
It is a nice first car, but as long as she continues to get good grades, keeps out of trouble and does good at work I don't mind.
This is what it looked like when we got it in:
And her starting the tear down with me:
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Rich