Have you ever considered the tragedy on not having a german ute? I have. At the dawn of 2019, sometime in October, long before the present worries. I acquired a black e46 with 100,000 miles. After a few nights of staring at my newly acquired 330xi with some body damage, I was perplexed by the decision tree that I typically follow to a T when I acquire cheap cars on a whim. Oh one hand, it had body damage, so "send it to my shop to get repaired and flip it for profit," I thought. On the other, the damage was too great for me to make any money on the sale after the repairs were complete. On yet another hand, of this *apparently* handed decision tree, stood the newly acquired box of tools I was itching to try. I decided to bring back the vision of a brighter German future back from the dead. On a cold November evening in 2018, I looked at my freshly wrecked 330i zhp, in a concussed slurry of object thoughts, I decided that it was time to "make things right" and proceeded to sketch out a plan for a build unlike the others. Completely ignoring the fact that this has been done multiple times before me and with very thorough build guides available online on how to proceed without erring on the side of really expensive for a project such as this. I ignored all of that and shared my genius on instagram to 4 likes and lots of worrisome comments from my friends. Nov 2, 2018 (Two weeks after the accident on the road; approximately 3500 weeks after the accident that put me on this planet). Fast forward to today, and the vision is coming to fruition in the form of an e46ute! The result of a few quick decisions with a grinding disk is what you see here. Like a mullet, business in the front, questionable decisions in the back. If you want to follow along, I would be thrilled to tell you my story on the instagram page where I collect a few of my scattered thoughts and ideas and manifest them into something you can judge in person. @ e46ute Instagram Link to the Build
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