Hi, my name is Eric and I´m from Germany, so please excuse my mistakes in the english language I´m sure of to do.
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I was asked to do a writeup of the story of my little Fatty
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( in german:
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"Dicker"
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) how I call my widebody Mk1a, so here I go.
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To explain my backround as first: I´ve learned the job of a car mechanic in my jounger years at a local, small Toyota dealership and was a Toyota enthusiast from kids age on.
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In the meantime I work in a car parts factory but I´ve kept my enthusiasm for Toyota cars as a hobby.
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Back in the end of 90´th I was a bit bored as my Carina GTi I drove in that times was modyfied to my targets and I startet to search for a Corolla AE86 as 2nd car for hobby use.
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In my younger years I´ve had some of this as daylie drivers and they was funny to drive so I want one again.
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I checked some offered AE86 over some time but all I´ve found where ruins with insane price tags.
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It was spring 2000 and by this time the lessor of my garage had a crash with his Subaru and he asked me to repair it.
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As we´re talking he told me that he kicked a
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"red Toyota with the engine in the back" from the road.
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I know that only a hand full MR2s are running in our local area so I did some research in the next days.
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And I found the worst case: He kicked off one of only 20 ever made widebody AW11 that Fritzinger Motorsport crafted in the mid 80´th.
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So I´ve reached the car this thread is the story of.
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In the 80th the owner of a Toyota dealership was active in the german rally scene and was a professional race driver before.
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His name is Klaus Fritzinger.
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His company builded his rally cars themself and they also did some serious mods to Toyotas like turbo conversions for the 4A-GE and power upgrades for the 3S-GTE and 7M-GTE.
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Mr Fritzinger used a MR2 Mk1 fitted with a HKS turbo kit in the german rally masters in this time.
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Therefor a complete widebody kit was designed.
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Additionally to this rally car about 20 street use AW11 was fitted with this kit peoble could buy.
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So this cars are a piece of Toyota history here in Germany and one of them stands there in front of me.
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I knew who was the owner and let him know that I was interested in the car if he is willing to sale.
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Took some weeks to get in contact but in the end I bought a non moving wrecked Fritzinger MR2
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"with a bit of rust under the side panels"
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,including some spare parts, two additional Fritzinger wheels and set of Borbet A wheels.
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This way the car looked in the garage of the previous owner:
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![Image](http://www.toyotacarina.de/mr2bericht/frontcorner.jpg)
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![Image](http://www.toyotacarina.de/mr2bericht/front.jpg)
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![Image](http://www.toyotacarina.de/mr2bericht/rearcorner.jpg)
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So far, so good.
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But the other side was the problem:
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![Image](http://www.toyotacarina.de/mr2bericht/side1.jpg)
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![Image](http://www.toyotacarina.de/mr2bericht/side6.jpg)
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And the car wasn´t moving because of the broken suspension arm:
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![Image](http://www.toyotacarina.de/mr2bericht/crash2.jpg)
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So I bought a used arm, replaced the broken one in the garage and drove it to my garage.
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The Fritzinger body kit contains:
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-a new front
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-a set of front wings
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-a set of side panel extensions including side skirts
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-a rear bumper
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-a set of 7x15
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+27 wheels
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-a set of 30 mm per side wheel spacers for the front
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-a set of 40 mm per side wheel spacers for the rear
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All body parts where made from fiberglass.
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So my plan was to remove the right side panel extension, cut a hole in the left one, repair the rust damages of the shell, glue the panel extensions back on and get the quarter panels painted.
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Not sooo much work and I will earn a nice 4A-GE powered fun car.
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Nice plan, but the devil sits in the details.
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After removing the big rear bumper I realised that there is more than
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"a bit" of rust on the shell:
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![Image](http://www.toyotacarina.de/mr2bericht/endspitzelinks.jpg)
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and after removing the side panel extension I even find more of it:
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![Image](http://www.toyotacarina.de/mr2bericht/schwellerrechts2.jpg)
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