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[Brickshoes]

Hi All,

I’ve been prowling around for a couple of months and thought I would poke my head in the door and say Hi.  I’m fresh over from the LBC world.

My son and I have embarked into the classic car world together. The tough decision of which car

to bring back to life was made easy when we zeroed in the 2002.

The  2002 is an excellent candidate for the venture; a perfect merger between classic and performance.

We found decent (at least for up here) example of a 75 2002.

A small sigh of relief could be heard from it’s rusty muffler as we dragged the car literally out of a junk yard. It has rust in the normal locations but fairly unmolested and most parts seem to be present.

The car has been stripped down to the shell and the De-rust process has begun.  

We’ve also purchased another 75, but extreme rust rendered this example to a parts bin.

A few differences I found interesting between the 2 cars:

Gear shift lever: one car has chrome the other has Black (factory?/painted ?/option? ).

Headlights:  one has sealed beam style the other has European style (North American option?)

Antenna: the attachment method and actual antenna is different between cars one has a red knob

one has a black knob.

The usable car has a “Lux” (I believe that’s the term) interior, wood on door tops, fold down arm rest on the rear seat, wooden shift knob, & working TII clock, yay! But no elongated  “L” on the trunk lid…hmmm.

We were lucky enough to find 1981 320IS complete with 5sp & LSD, although the seats

are an abortion of 320I Recaro frames and ugly over stuffed cushions which come from where?

$2000 cdn ( $28.50 usd?) for all 3 cars seems to be a fair start and hopefully we’ll get another 2002 back

on the road.

 

Anyway …. I’m amazed at the perpetual information on this site, and friendliness of fellow 02ers.

Hopefully I can add a few tidbits in the future.

Cheers

Bruce.

[otisdog]

Welcome! Pics of the Lux interior?

[2002Scoob]

Welcome!! It's a great site and community, I've learned tons from it myself and learn something new almost daily


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[Brickshoes]

Here's the only photo I could find

 

[AceAndrew]

Welcome Bruce!  Best of luck to you and your son.  Very jealous of your lux door panels, and quite entertained by you interpretation of the CDN vs USD exchange rate.

[Simeon]

Welcome! Nice deal for 2,000 of anything 

[m42002]

Great bonding project. Thanks for saving it from certain scrap!

[Conserv]

Very cool, Bruce!

 

Besides the Lux door cards, the rear seat fold-down armrest and seats having cloth seating surfaces are important features of the Lux package.  The original Lux seating surfaces used two different styles of cloth on those seating surfaces: the pleated central areas were distinguished from the areas flanking those pleated sections by a change in the cloth texture. LarsAlpina's Lars is certainly one of THE experts on '02 upholstery and provides several photos of Lux package seats in the following thread:

 

 

On the Lux package cars, I believe the faux wood instrument cluster bezel was replaced with genuine wood, and additional genuine wood trim was applied to the center console.  The Lux package was introduced mid-way into the 1974 model year.

 

A LOT happens to most cars over the course of 40+ years, and I suspect these cars are no exception.

 

Two possibilities to explain you car's Lux package are: 

 

1.  Your car lost its Lux rear badge during its 41 years, or

2.  Someone transplanted a LUX package interior into a non-Lux-package car during its 41 years.

 

Either is possible.  You decide!

 

Welcome to the forum and welcome to '02 ownership!

 

Regards,

 

Steve

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited October 16, 2016 by Conserv

[Brickshoes]

Thanks for the welcomes.

Interesting information regarding the lux package Steve.

Particularly:  "the Lux interior is quite different from the standard 2002 interior--and was not sold on US spec cars."

The VIN shows the car as a USA import, so like you suggested "Someone transplanted a LUX package interior" maybe right.

But the European headlights....was this car not "for USA market" ?

Is there somewhere to get more details information regarding  VINs i.e. options, original destination, etc?

At any rate, looks like the LUX must be embraced and bought back to life.

 

[Conserv]

6 hours ago, Brickshoes said:

Thanks for the welcomes.

Interesting information regarding the lux package Steve.

Particularly:  "the Lux interior is quite different from the standard 2002 interior--and was not sold on US spec cars."

The VIN shows the car as a USA import, so like you suggested "Someone transplanted a LUX package interior" maybe right.

But the European headlights....was this car not "for USA market" ?

Is there somewhere to get more details information regarding  VINs i.e. options, original destination, etc?

At any rate, looks like the LUX must be embraced and bought back to life.

 

 

Bruce,

 

I'll keep saying it: a LOT happens to a car over 40+ years.  Yes, in 1975, your car, if U.S.-spec, arrived with a pair of sealed-beam headlights, the only headlights legal in the U.S by D.O.T. standards.  After buying my 1976, in July 1976, it probably took me a week or two to swap out the sealed beams for "illegal" H4 headlights.  It hasn't had sealed beam headlights since.  Shame on me!

 

I assume you've requested the manufacturing date et al from BMW Archives (email your car's VIN to info.grouparchiv@bmwgroup.com).  But unless you have an original window sticker, or other delivery documents, you may never discover it's Port of Entry or delivering dealer.

 

Regards,

 

Steve

 

Edited October 16, 2016 by Conserv

[arminyack]

Welcome Bruce! Congrates on the choice of car! You will not find a more active, and helpful community in the vintage car world than right here at the 2002faq!