other article ..... "Babied Blaü - 1970 BMW 2002"

[OriginalOwner]

http://www.hemmings.com/hsx/stories/2012/01/01/hmn_feature5.html

 

Cheers,

 

Carl

 

[PaulTWinterton]

Wow! 23K miles, and it looks it. Cleanest original 02 I've ever seen.

Edited August 25, 2015 by PaulTWinterton

[Mark92131]

Nice car, love the interior.  Maybe it's the pictures, but the color looks off for Atlantik.  Could be the lighting, but other Atlantik cars look darker.  I would also think you would have original paint color under the engine stickers pictured.  Still a great car and story.

 

Mark92131

[abrokenframe]

I think it's just how they doctored up the pictures.

[HBChris]

The air cleaner should be black on a 70 single barrel Solex I believe, and he's running a blue coil and a ballast resistor too. Shame it's driven so little.

[John_in_VA]

The air cleaner should be black on a 70 single barrel Solex I believe, and he's running a blue coil and a ballast resistor too. Shame it's driven so little.

 

My '70 (1673695) had that same gray air cleaner on the single-barrel Solex.

[Conserv]

I, too, was a bit put off by the color until I saw the one view from the left rear -- much better: darker and less...electric!

My very early '70 (VIN 1668093, September 8, 1969) also had a gray air filter housing. I smile when I think about some of the "conclusions" on the housing colors I read in a good thread in the U.K. forum: one-barrels are usually gray unless they're early and/or black; two-barrels are usually black unless they're gray; Euro and U.K. colors might have been different from U.S. models, unless the difference is due entirely to the one-versus-two barrel issue! Since the two-barrel only appeared with automatic transmissions in Europe, does that suggest that a Euro 2002A got black and a contemporary Euro 2002 got gray? Forget it -- for now!

And, I, too was ever-so-slightly uncomfortable with the paint around the color sticker. I wouldn't fall over if the original owner -- dead or alive -- were to say, "A few panels, such as the rear panel, were re-painted after minor incidents." Why? There's a bit more orange peel to that rear panel than I recall of the original lacquer.

All of this said, it is a stupendously gorgeous car. And, yes, it is sad that -- for the sake of posterity (or investment value?) -- it cannot be driven more than 200 miles annually!

Regards,

Steve

[HBChris]

Hmm, early 69s head black air cleaners, don't know when they changed.

[02Anders]

Steve, it's not about the colour of the air filter housing!
Oh no...  not one bit.

It's all about that door mirror!

The swan-neck mirror was only used up to and including '68.  So how did it end up on such a thoroughly original and unmolested 2002 from '70??
Hmmmmm....

[Conserv]

Ahh HAA!

 

Thank you, Professor Anders! And this mirror point is particularly interesting because if in, say, 1975, the original trap mirror has been broken -- when a drunken comrade fell against it, I'm quite certain that's what happened -- it would seem likely that you would wind up with a flag or even a trap mirror, not a swan's neck, which would take some.....some...premeditated planning. Unless you got some bad guidance such as: "All those oldie's had swan's neck mirrors!" Or you had a spare swan’s neck mirror sitting in your garage, from an earlier ‘02 you owned.

 

File this under Deep Dark Mysteries!

 

Best regards,

 

Steve

[jgerock]

This car is fantastic! It is about 1 year after my 69 (1666269), has the same gray colored air cleaner, exhaust heat shield and interior console (among other things). The radio in this car is a Becker "Europa" not a "Corona". I don't really like the black seats with the dark blue exterior and carpet. Wonder why BMW didn't just put the brown seats and carpet in them?

[Conserv]

On 8/28/2015 at 8:00 PM, jgerock said:

...I don't really like the black seats with the dark blue exterior and carpet. Wonder why BMW didn't just put the brown seats and carpet in them?

I agree wholeheartedly, Jim!

 

Best regards,

 

Steve