This is my 1973 BMW 2002Tii. It was ordered new from the factory by my dad in 1973 and has been his until he gave it to me in the Fall of 2012. Most notably, it was oversprayed in the late 80's after a freak summer hailstorm accident, and in the mid/late 90's the KF mechanical fuel injection was swapped for dual weber 40 DCOE's due to lack of local ability to fix it (pre-internet).
When I took ownership of the car in 2012 it had just suffered a piston ring failure. I began my first dive into th