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My '74tii enjoying my birthday weekend, July 1980, Kern River canyon (above Lake Isabella, CA).

 

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Here's one from a year earlier, July 1979, Thousand Oaks, CA.

that's my sister's '74tii   ......  she still drives it today.  (that's her son, he learned how to drive a stick shift in that tii).

 

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and this one, taken in August 1978, also Thousand Oaks, same lawn as above ....... my sister had just purchased her '74tii from a older lady in town who needed to sell it ......

 

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Cheers,

 

Carl

 

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On 5/21/2020 at 8:25 AM, Dick R said:

Regarding the above wheels and tires comment by Autostrada, in the 1971 picture, those were the OE wheels, minus the hubcaps.  I never had any wheels but the originals on that car.  While the old photos are not all that clear, if you look closely at the front wheel in the 1969 photo, it is the same wheel with the OE chrome hubcap in place.  Regarding the tires, those were most likely A70-13 Goodyears.  Probably bias-belted Polyglas.  I was a tire development engineer for Goodyear in the early 70s, and at that time I'm pretty sure that the widest tire for 13 inch rims were 70 series.  60 series was probably pretty new on the scene in 14 and 15 inch sizes, but I don't believe they were yet in the 13 wheel size.  Of course, I'm basing this on a near-50 year old memory. 

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This has turned into a mystery to me that I don't know the answer to. 

 

For reference, I looked at the spare wheel and tire on my current 71 2002 which I've had for 4 years. It has 14" basket weave wheels, but  I believe that the spare is both the original wheel and original tire that came with the car for the following reasons:  it is a Michelin XAS, it is a tube-type tire, and most of all, there is no date code on it.  Date coding began in 71 or 72 I believe, so this tire was manufactured prior to the date when tires were required to have a date code.  Amazingly, there is plenty of tread on this tire further indicating that it has spent perhaps all of its life as a spare.  And no, I wouldn't use this to go around the block today.  

 

The wheel on the 71 is a plain steel wheel.  That's the kind that would have, or should have, come with my 69.  But the picture shows wheels that are not plain.  I had a couple of thoughts, neither one of which seem strong candidates to me.  One - that particular car had some strange manufacturing situations going on:  a) it was missing one of the side reflectors   b) the rear seat belts were there and tucked in to the rear seat, but when I removed the rear seat I found that not only were they not screwed in to the body, there were no screw mounts welded to the body to attach them to.  Is is possible that it got some different wheels because that's what was lying around that late afternoon when the assemblers wanted to go home?  Unlikely, but who knows.  Second possibility - maybe somebody I knew back in 1971 wanted to try his Vega wheels on my BMW.  I don't remember doing that, but maybe that's why the picture was taken.  And maybe I wanted to try someone's Vega Polyglas a-70-13s before changing them and that's what I tried.   I don't recall having any friends stupid enough to have bought a Vega, but then there would have been plenty of my friends who I thought I was stupid enough to buy a BMW.   Unfortunately, the picture is not very clear to begin with and has degraded over the half-century as well. 

 

My conclusion - beats the hell out of me. 

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Oops, sorry for above multi inserts, forgot how to properly attach an old photo . . .

 

Oktoberfest 1977, Sears Point - behind me in line was Hardy & Beck's 320i Alpina that tailed me from the start until I eventually had to yield, lol.

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76 2002 Chamonix

06 530i Monaco Blue

18 i3 BEV Protonic Blue

87 528e Royalblau (Retired)

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Makes me want to go out and drive without a destination...

 

Great photos.

 

Jason

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1973 2002tii (2764167), Baikal, sunroof, A/C, 5spd OD, 3.91 LSD, etc. Rebuild blog here!

In the past: Verona H&B 1973 2002tii (2762913); Malaga 1975 2002; White 1975 2002

--> Blog: Repro tii cold start relay;   --> If you need an Alpina A4 tuning manual, PM me!

 

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Summer 1973 camping in Norway.  (The natives could spot Americans by the way they dressed.) 1972 2002tii 2761282, whose story is in the Registry.  Last seen February 1976 at Platte Avenue Datsun in Colorado Springs.  Miss her often.

 

1973-07 BMW 2002tii  2761282 Camping in Norway .jpg

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1974 2002tii Verona 2780988

1972 2002tii Chamonix 2761282 (wish I'd never sold)

Freude am Fahren

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On 5/21/2020 at 9:55 PM, Autostrada said:

We'll probably never know, but now I'm on a mission to find some Vega or whatever they are wheels.


I’m afraid, Dick, I’m completely in Autostrada’s camp here. The rims in your 1969 photo are stock 4 1/2” rims with stock full wheel covers (those are single-piece wheel covers). The rims in your 1971 photo cannot hold a BMW wheel cover: they are “convex“ where the stock rims have a concavity and three adjacent pronounced nubs on the perimeter of the center disk, designed to hold the wheel cover in place. In addition, the rims in your 1971 photo are not rims that BMW ever manufactured — Autostrada’s Vega proposal is fair and believable.
 

I bought my ‘76 new, and I guarantee I’ve forgotten lots of things I did to it over the last 44 years.

 

Following, the rims that were on your car in the 1969 photo, albeit with full wheel covers:
 

 

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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Fuzzy scan of a faded Polaroid.

My second Bimmer in 1981.... a 1970 2002 I bought from a mechanic friend... they never have time to work their own cars!  The head had a valve guide that floated loose and reamed out the head, so I found a newly-rebuilt engine at a BMW scrap yard and popped it in.  Lucky me - the engine came from a restored '02 that got rolled before the paint was dry!  I think I paid $350 including a tuned exhaust manifold and four-post intake manifold with a Weber carb.

It was a beater, but pretty peppy.

If not for Dick's picture, I would have had the courage to post the shorts!?

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Colorado Orange Atlanta 1984.jpg

 

 

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1972 BMW Inka 2002Tii  ?

1974 BMW Turkis 3.0 CSi ?

1972 MBZ Weiss 280SE 4.5 

2006 BMW Cobalt 530i (38,700 m original)

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DerekZ4's picture above ...... that license plate frame says Saddleback Irvine.

 

I bought my '74tii from Saddleback when they were down south in Mission Viejo.  The picture I posted above, here's a bit of enlargement showing my license plate frame.

     And another "old timer" detail.  On the license plate, upper right corner:  that white tab is the annual registration sticker, it says 1974.  That exact same plate & registration sticker is still in place on the front of the car.

 

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Cheers,

 

Carl

 

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