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About this blog

Hi I’m Nate. This blog is about a 1972 BMW 2002 ‘roundie’ that I am restoring. I am located In Marino, South Australia and the car was bought from Tin Can Bay, North QLD in June 2021. 
 

Car was delivered down to me in South Oz by Broady Express Transport (highly recommend). 
 

The car is currently a rolling shell and came complete with basically all parts needed to rebuild, although is very much apart at the moment!

 

Previous owner has done a lot of the rust repairs and hand shaped some cool metal flares for the front and rear and a custom chin spoiler to match, although will change the chin spoiler as not huge on the shape.

 

My goal is to reproduce a 70s Alpina replica  period racer look with the inka and black color scheme, rebuild the engine to be a nice punchy 2L street car with the occasional spirited drive through the hills, track days and potentially hill climbs (someday).

 

I am a civil engineer during the week and a father at night and weekends of two boys (5yo and 2yo) and another boy expected within the next few days and married to Georgia, my far better half!

 

Due to working full time and having my hands full with a young family, time is not my friend lately although hope to at-least get the car panel and paint work done before the end of 2021 and the man start to slowly piece the car back together as time permits!

 

I will post up the build as it progresses and look forward to hearing from others on this BMW 2002 faq along the way. 
 

Welcome to my blog ??
 

 

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Build inspiration

Thought would share a few photos of what has inspired me to rebuild my 02 to be similar to a 70s period racer Alpina look.   When deciding on color of choice to paint my car I knew in my mind that it had to be an original BMW 2002 color that matched the year of the car and as soon as I saw the inka and black combination I just couldn’t get it out of my head!   So that is what I’m going with!   Have attached some photos of an 02 with this same color combination sourc

Parts acquisition has already started…

After having the car for not long at all, have joined several Facebook groups / pages and it has been great! Excellent community in Australia to chat everything 2002 and also worldwide! Thanks all for the advice provided so far and general chats about our cars!   After sorting through what I have with the car there seems to only be a few things I needed to obtain to assist with the build.   It has also been made apparent that a late model 02 nose panel has been fitted at some

Car has arrived and is dry and better than expected!

Car arrived early morning with no issues over the journey! Managed to get it off of the trailer and back it slowly down my steep road, into my driveway and back into my shed with the help of a good mate, David. Thanks David ??He is also a BMW enthusiast and currently owns two BMW e9’s. One he will restore and the other he may move on shortly.  IMG_7353.mov   Was pleasantly surprised with the car, as I had bought it purely off of seeing photos, a few videos and numerous phone calls and

Car is ready to begin its journey down to South Oz

It was a wet week in June which made me anxious as this was the day my 1972 BMW 2002 was beginning its journey from North QLD down to me in Marino, South Australia. I had booked Luke from Broady Express to bring it down to me and highly recommend his services! A friend of the guy I was buying the car from, Barry, was kindly bringing the car down to Nudgee to meet Luke and transfer over onto his open trailer. The car was full to the roof lining with parts, including a boot full of spares
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