The Beginning of a Long Journey
After looking for a 2002 that fit what I was looking for for some months, I finally found one back some time in august. I bought a 1975 2002 that you could consider a barn find. The 2002 was sitting under a canopy and had not been driven to my knowledge since about 1994. According to the person I bought it from I am the third owner of the car. The car was very low because of completely flat tires so the bottle caps where put on replacing the original rims so it could be rolled.
After cleanup:
I then proceeded to rip out the interior of the car because I have e21 recaros that I plan on installing along with a new carpet. Upon removing the carpet I found the rust that I could not see before. The car has had previous not so great rust repair and I will be replacing all of the floor panels.
The good thing is that I bought it for cheap and it has a bad engine which is what I was looking for as I have a rebuilt replacement. The color is is right now turns purple in light and is not very nice to me, but the original color Is a rare arctic blue metallic that as I have read is rare and was only offered on the last years of the 2002.
Driver floor with cut out gas pedal from rust:
One of many old rust fixes:
Original color sticker:
Today I have removed the engine and hopefully will get my rebuilt turbo engine in some time.
That is the end for now. My goals for now are to just get it driving; which means fixing all the rust so I actually have a gas pedal to press and to put in my engine.
A funny note to end on.
my 2002 won a bmwcca clean car award when it was 2 years old. I find this kind of funny.
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