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This is a 1973 2002tii, it was owned by a long time friend of mine Doug. He passed away in 2007 of cancer, and I am on a quest to finish the car. Doug had 2 2002tii's and we spent many long nights and weekends working on them, as such this car holds great sentimental value to me.

 

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Update November 2017

Since my last entry in this build blog a considerable amount of Life has happened. One, I purchased the house across the street from the one I was renting here in Texas,Second, the day after we closed on the house my better 3/4 and I had our second child(a healthy baby girl), and third a major hail storm .Although this has not stopped the progress on Doug's car, to start had to partially reassemble the car to move it  After which I proceeded to buy a used rusted out  e30 318i for parts and strip

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Dissassembly

So after moving 5 times in 3 years and halfway across the country this last time, I decided it was finally time to start this project. After trying to buy a house, selling my WRX wagon(which I had longer than I have known my wife, to put the down payment the house ) and getting turned down due a the last moment. I was a little despondent and had some money to spend, my chosen therapy ?(not to mention one of the worlds most understanding pregnant wife) Finish fixing this car. Pictures in this ins

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The Beginning

This is where it all began, These are pictures of the car as I received it from Doug's family. At this point, the car was so low that it would high center in my driveway. The reason for this is Doug was trying to lower his car(more) for Bimmerfest and cut the lowering springs on his 74tii, at about 8 pm Fri night (after work mind you while the janitor was tying to clean up ) so we ended up having drive to his house across town to "Borrow" the springs off of this car to even be able to get his ca

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