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[quote="IndyBMW"]First, want to give a little introduction.  Just bought a 1970 '02 and I'm still older than it, so that gives all of you an idea of my age. LOL.  It's my first '02, but I can remember wanting once since I was 15-16 years old, and have finally gotten myself one after all of these years.

I've got alot of experience in fabrication, sheetmetal work, roll cages, suspension, etc from my days as a 'semi pro' rock crawler in Jeeps.  But this is something totally different, so we'll see how much can transfer. :D

So anyway, the car.  It's a 1970 that I bought off of e-bay, completely expecting to get a non-running, uh, turd.  I'm no stranger to rust, so I was expecting it.  When I picked it up, much to my surprise, the little beast runs like a top!

I brought it the 4 hours back home, and proceeded to clean it up.  No, it's not a show car, yes, it leaks oil like no tomorrow.  But, I did have it wound out to about 4k rpm and a die hard muscle car buddy and I were having a blast tooling around our road that is closed (no traffic), zipping around some barricades.

Plans, are, well, not sure yet.  I was originally going to just completely tear it apart and restore it, but to be honest, it runs so well and I had such a blast in it, I might just put it back into limited daily driver status.   Already put a new door on it (that was included in the auction), and removed the front bumper.

Biggest needs are:
1.  Hood.  The front edge of the hood is rusted through, odd I think, but I need a hood.
2.  Rockers.  Both need to be replaced, time to break out the Lincoln.
3.  A paint job. :D
4.  New carpet.  I have a science experiment growing in the carpet, it needs to leave.
5.  Grills.  The center grill is great, the outer grills crumbled in my hand. :(

If anyone has any of these parts laying around they'd like to part with, let me know.

Also, I don't know if there is anyone in Indy that could possibly give me any advice, help, etc., but if there is, please let me know.

Anyway, I've rambled enough, here are the pics from when I picked it up, I'll post some more of the 'cleanup'.

[img]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/IndyCJ/BMW2002/67_3.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/IndyCJ/BMW2002/02_3.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/IndyCJ/BMW2002/9e_3.jpg[/img]

[img]http://i6.photobucket.com/albums/y247/IndyCJ/BMW2002/ag_3.jpg[/img][/quote]

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