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Early 02 Barn Find


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Very nice!  Smooth steering wheel hub, lack of headrests, and lack of sidemarkers probably confirm it was manufactured during the 1968 calendar year, so it’s, indeed, likely a 1968 model — I guess, possibly, an early 1969 model. It could be Polaris, which would be quite desirable on such an early example!

 

Remember, U.S.-spec 2002’s begin with VIN 1660001.

 

Get thee to Bozeman,

 

Regards,

 

Steve

 

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1976 2002 Polaris, 2742541 (original owner)

1973 2002tii Inka, 2762757 (not-the-original owner)

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Love that!  

 

"it's an early car with hubcaps and trim rings... You don't see a lot these with original hubcaps...people put...Panasports on them"   

 

Hahaha... he says PanaSports like it's a foul-mouth word.  :)

 

Thanks for posting Jim.

 

Ed Z

...who used to have PanaSports

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'69 Granada... long, long ago  

'71 Manila..such a great car

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1 hour ago, Conserv said:

ndeed, likely a 1968 model

 

Did you see the little gauge, or clock on the left side of the binnacle?  

 

Very interesting car.

 

Ed

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'69 Granada... long, long ago  

'71 Manila..such a great car

'67 Granada 2000CS...way cool

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They're out there! I wound up with US Spec BMW R90S #2 earlier this year out of a random garage on craigslist.

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-Nathan
'76 2002 in Malaga (110k Original, 2nd Owner, sat for 20 years and now a toy)
'86 Chevy K20 (6.2 Turbo Diesel build) & '46 Chevy 2 Ton Dump Truck
'74 Suzuki TS185, '68 BSA A65 Lightning (garage find), '74 BMW R90S US Spec #2

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10 hours ago, zinz said:

 

Did you see the little gauge, or clock on the left side of the binnacle?  

 

 

I did, Ed. Certainly aftermarket. I’m guessing it’s something goofy like an oil pressure or oil temperature gauge, or an ammeter....

 

(I, too, loved the “everyone’s got Panasports today” put-down.... ?)

 

Best regards,

 

Steve

 

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1976 2002 Polaris, 2742541 (original owner)

1973 2002tii Inka, 2762757 (not-the-original owner)

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Hard to tell from the picture, but it may have the embossed hood trim.  The really early US 2002s (look at the press pool car from C&D and Pop Science road tests--with the NJ plates) had that embossed trim, but that doesn't show in the parts book. 

 

But those wheel covers look like the one piece ones.  AFAIK there were two different wheel cover setups used on the '68 cars.  The really early ones had a hubcap--painted silver IIRC, with a soft aluminum trim ring having square holes, held in place by the hubcap.  Later cars had a two piece version of the one piece wheel cover used in 1969--painted silver with oval holes.  The one in this video looks like the one piece, 1969 wheel cover, but hard to tell.

 

Would love to know the car's VIN...

mike

 

 

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It seems as though that the hood trim is embossed. The two times that the camera moved in front of the hood that's what I am fairly certain I was able to discern.

Could clean up quite nicely, the paint appearing salvageable from what's visible (besides the creased fender of course)? Who knows what the other side and undercarriage look like though.

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'74 Sahara/Beige 2002 HS car, long, long ago...

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