body and interior Rear Seat Bulkhead Questions

[jgerock]

While browsing thru another recent thread (friend looking at car - questions about the interior), I noticed the FIRST car for sale is what appears to be a very nice 67 Granada 1602 (from Switzerland).

 

See here http://home.mobile.de/AGYOUNGTIMER#des_188358745

 

The rear seat bulkhead has (2) cutouts on the left and right sides.  The left side appears to have a covering and the right side the covering was peeled back.

 

Is this a standard feature of the early cars or was this car modified?

 

Another question about this area is from my 69 2002:

There are opaque plastic plugs in the bulkhead.  What were they for?

[esty]

i suspect that was one of the rare, reduced weight models used for racing

['76mintgrün'02]

or prepped for racing... then they did not add the cage.

 

(it was the first location addressed in this thread)

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/topic/148664-need-historic-roll-cage-evidence/?hl=cage#entry962203

 

Would any of you history buffs happen to have a vintage racing photo of an 02 with a roll cage welded to the rear shock turret tops?

 

[MikeinNC]

Standard on early cars. My 67 is just like that

[Mike Self]

And my Feb '69 production '02 doesn't have the plastic plugs.  Could they be for running speaker wires for flush mount rear speakers?

 

mike

[jgerock]

Standard on early cars. My 67 is just like that

Interesting- do you know why BMW did that?

[LarsAlpina]

Interesting- do you know why BMW did that?

 

AFAIK exhaust ventilation was a bit different for the early body shells. If I´m not cross-eyed also the contour of the roof sheet metal is a little bit different - at least seemed to me like this on the 1966 cars I had a closer look at.

 

Best regards, Lars.

[nbcbird]

I thought plugs were to fill holes from primer/rust coating process at factory, but that doesn't seem likely here.