‘72 Colorado Orange Roundie in NC

[cagedbunny]

Price: $3000

Location: Raleigh, NC

Description:

I managed to save this car from being yard art, but it’s going to be another year or three before I have the time/desire to play with it.  Seeing if someone wants a patina’d driver, or a roundie resto candidate in an awesome color!

 

‘72 Colorado Orange 2002, non-sunroof car.  Equipped with Frigiking A/C, black seats and saddle/black door panel set.  Carpet was beyond saving, so pulled out and tossed.  All stock currently other than a war-torn Momo wheel and solid Momo wheel hub.  Pictured missing some exterior belt line trim, but I have all the pieces to go with the car. And a pair of headlights, which were inexplicably removed at some point.  

 

The car obviously has rust.  BUT; the strut towers, frame rails, shock towers, and inner rockers are flawless.  The passenger front fender, door, and quarter panel have rust, as does the rear lower rocker panel.  Driver side is much more solid with some rust spots on the driver door, but nothing else notable.  The driver floor pan has a thin area near the base of the pedal box, but the rest of the floors are intact.  One ~3”x3” square soft spot at the passenger forward rear subframe mount, but the other three mounts are rock solid as well.  Windshield surround, cowl panel, and a-pillars are excellent.  

 

I haven’t tried to run the car, but I have spare m10’s and/or 4-speed transmissions that can be worked into the deal.  The door panels aren’t pictured, but included with the car.  It’s on e30 bottlecaps with old tires that hold air and roll fine.  

I have a parts car that can donate 98% of the metal needed to make this car perfect, including the passenger fender, doors, quarter panel, outer lower rocker panel, and even a trunk lid.  

 

The car is located in Raleigh, NC and will be sold with a bill of sale.  Looking for $3k with all the spare trim/panels etc, but open to *reasonable* offers.  I don’t have to sell, but I’ll be moving it to storage in a few weeks to free up space otherwise.  

Those interested, feel free to message me with questions/interest.  Those not interested, please be polite. ?

[Bob D.]

No worries, that'll buff right out! ?

 

All joking aside, I wish I had the talent, time and space to take this on.   Unfortunately, I am lacking all three.  

 

This car really caught my eye because it reminds me a lot of an Inka roundie that lived a few blocks from where I grew up. I noticed it parked off to the side of the driveway, at least two tires flat, one day as I walked to junior high. It looked like it had last run when Nixon was president but I was completely taken with it and would check on it every time I walked by that house. It never moved; on winter days it was often an 02-shaped mound of snow.  

 

The same week I got my drivers license a few years later, I went to the house and knocked on the door, ready to offer every penny I had, if necessary, for the right to somehow drag that 02 home with me. I got no answer, so left a note under one of the windshield wipers.  I never heard back.  I went back to the house twice more, but even though the note was no longer under the windshield wiper, no one ever answered the door or called me back.

 

When I went off to college a couple of years later I didn't come home too often, but when I did, I always made it a point to drive by the house with the Inka 2002.  As kooky as it sounds, I always envisioned seeing somebody outside the house that would suddenly agree to sell me the car.  Last time I saw the Inka 2002, sometime in my junior year(?) in college, it looked about like this one.  The next time I came home, it was gone.  I'm sure it wasn't being lovingly restored, but rather hauled off by the junk man. To this day, I regret not doing more to try to get that car and save it.

 

Somebody do better than me and rescue this one.  @cagedbunny I wish you much luck with this car, whether it's resuscitated by a buyer or by you.  

[resra]

3 hours ago, Bob D. said:

No worries, that'll buff right out! ?

 

All joking aside, I wish I had the talent, time and space to take this on.   Unfortunately, I am lacking all three.  

 

This car really caught my eye because it reminds me a lot of an Inka roundie that lived a few blocks from where I grew up. I noticed it parked off to the side of the driveway, at least two tires flat, one day as I walked to junior high. It looked like it had last run when Nixon was president but I was completely taken with it and would check on it every time I walked by that house. It never moved; on winter days it was often an 02-shaped mound of snow.  

 

The same week I got my drivers license a few years later, I went to the house and knocked on the door, ready to offer every penny I had, if necessary, for the right to somehow drag that 02 home with me. I got no answer, so left a note under one of the windshield wipers.  I never heard back.  I went back to the house twice more, but even though the note was no longer under the windshield wiper, no one ever answered the door or called me back.

 

When I went off to college a couple of years later I didn't come home too often, but when I did, I always made it a point to drive by the house with the Inka 2002.  As kooky as it sounds, I always envisioned seeing somebody outside the house that would suddenly agree to sell me the car.  Last time I saw the Inka 2002, sometime in my junior year(?) in college, it looked about like this one.  The next time I came home, it was gone.  I'm sure it wasn't being lovingly restored, but rather hauled off by the junk man. To this day, I regret not doing more to try to get that car and save it.

 

Somebody do better than me and rescue this one.  @cagedbunny I wish you much luck with this car, whether it's resuscitated by a buyer or by you.  

 

Great Story and thanks for sharing.

[Bob D.]

1 hour ago, resra said:

 

Great Story and thanks for sharing.

 

Thanks @resra.  I didn't intend to tell the whole story when I started that post, but it just sort of came out.  

 

Hats off to these special and amazing little cars, which have the power to create that kind of reaction in me as a kid, and memories that I still carry with me 40 years later.   

Edited October 8, 2020 by Bob D.
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[Alexz620]

Hey i wanna buy this car!!

[cagedbunny]

Thanks for sharing that story Bob!  I think a lot of us have experienced the "one that got away" a time or two over the years.  I've been relatively lucky in my knocking on strangers doors, but there have been a few that I really wanted to save that, there was just no separating the car from the owner.  We do what we can, but it definitely concretes the memory, doesn't it!

 

 

[Bills542003]

Interested in your spare M10’s. Have any running engines for sale. Bill Asheville area