body and interior New guy with a nose question?

[Tom W]

Hey guys, I have been trolling around the site for a while now taking it all in. I bought a 72 02 from my brother last year after years of watching it sit and rot in his yard. He had good intentions but no time or place to work on it. I should have bought a more solid car looking back but now I am neck deep and totally in love with this little car. I had to build a tiny custom 02 garage myself as well as get some tools I have been wanting for many years. So I drove the car a little then started the tear down. Currently it is down the shell, I am replacing the left frame rail and floor boards. Floor boards installed, waiting on the rail to come. I bought a wrecked 72 Fjord for the nose piece, bumpers etc. The Colorado I am rebuilding has a rusty bondo filled nose that has been hit more than once. My question is about the two indentions under the kidney bean, see the attached pics. Are they supposed to be there? Sorry the only two 02's I have ever seen in person  I own, not much to reference around here .Thanks! The tan  colored pic is a down load that had the same indentions, may belong to some one on here.

[esty]

no sir

 

edit to add pics

 

 

 

 

Edited December 18, 2014 by esty

[Mike Self]

Those dents are indicative of the car being tapped by a Braille parker in a parallel parking place.  Roundie bumpers are easily overridden by most American car bumpers, why Anco made lots of $$ selling overrider bows to 02 owners "back in the day."
 

mike

 

PS--welcome to 02 ownership.  Hope all that rust doesn't discourage you!  But if you've already done the floors and frame rails, you're used to it by now!

Edited December 19, 2014 by mike

[eurotrash]

For being unintended, the details of the metal are oddly similar, and both strangely symetrical. weird.

[Tom W]

My wife thinks they are cute and that I should leave them..... not going to happen!  She loves the car too.  Maybe I can pop them out without much trouble. Frame rail was here when I got home today!!!!!

[esty]

put something round, like a softball [larger would be better] behind each depression and push out or tap with a small sledge...the trick will be not creating high spots on the fascia

[BLUNT]

put something round, like a softball [larger would be better] behind each depression and push out or tap with a small sledge...the trick will be not creating high spots on the fascia

cloth bag full of uncooked popcorn works well for that type of dent..  like a bean bag

Edited December 19, 2014 by BLUNT

[dlmrun2002]

My wife thinks they are cute and that I should leave them..... not going to happen!  She loves the car too.  Maybe I can pop them out without much trouble. Frame rail was here when I got home today!!!!!

How about a write  up w/ pix up on the frame rail install?

dlm

[BrentF]

As strange as it may seem those two pics in the first post would indicate these indents are factory, otherwise why the exact symmetry as between the left and right sides as well as across vehicles? If memory serves, my '72 has these indents as well.

[esty]

If memory serves, my '72 has these indents as well.

go take a look and let us know

[Fatherof3]

My 72 is original paint and doesn't have them

 

 

Edited December 19, 2014 by Fatherof3

[Conserv]

The grumpy ol' guy in me says this is not worth any further discussion: 02's did not come with "dimples" under the center grille. Period. If your car has dimples, you can live with them or fix them, but your car didn't come from the factory with them.

Regards,

The grumpy ol' guy

[Tom W]

The bean bag trick sounds pretty good. I can attempt a write up on the frame rail. May be a lesson on how not to do it (ha). I have an extra sub frame that I plan to use for the alignment and several measurements taken before the extraction of the old one.

[TNan]

I look forward to following your work on the frame rail replacement. I too have a 72' 02 which also needs a new frame rail. I can't wait to read more about your project. Where did you order your frame rail (website would be great)? And how much was it?

[Tom W]

The frame rail came from bmwofsouthatlanta.com, $292 plus shipping for a total of $312. I took several pictures of the install but my shop is so tiny they did not come out as good as I had hoped. I still plan to get it on here maybe in a build thread. It turned out well. Thanks