Drove it today

[Steve73tii]

Not a big deal to those outside the rust belt, but with the freakishly warm weather and a couple of good rains since the last salt on the road, I got the '02 out today (December 14th). Just 20 or so miles around town including the silly "S curves" that pass for twisties here, then back on the throughway. Man, it was good to drive a car that works and that's simple and direct! I had given up hope 'til at least April. Today I hit 999 miles on the Kerman factory rebuild. Here's a couple pics. Lot's of cosmetic glitches, etc., still to work out, but I'm working on them...

Steve

[oz_tom]

Nice Steve! Car is looking spot on. Are you running factory Cromodoras? Beautiful wheels them.

[_z_]

that is uber purdy

is that color agave? Man its nice.. I bet it was like a horse left in the barn too long huh? Needed a run i'm sure!

[TTyMiller]

Car looks great, engine bay great, I would love to find some of those seats with the Roundel logo great find.

[jgmgti]

Very nice...enjoy.

Jonathan

[kris]

Looks great, just north of you, but alas, my car is in pieces. You and Nathan should come to some of the Toronto meets next yr.

[Timmer]

Crazy December weather Steve, sunny and close to 60 today...leaves me with only one choice, take a half day today and take the 2000 out of the garage for another drive.

Tim

'69 2000

[Steve73tii]

Thanks all for the kind words... All I see after being up to my elbows in it all summer are the flaws!

Yes, it's Agave, or as close as the paint shop could match in that formula. Looks a little Jadey to me. The wheels are factory alloys, like the cromos, but with only 5 slots... FPS, I think was the oem? I didn't get a good shot of the wheels because I painted the the brake drums silver and they match. Looks like crap. The early e21 Recaros were $100 bucks on ebay and I had a great local guy do just the centers in a gunny sack-like brown tweed.

There are funky details like that everwhere because I did certain things cheap and local and used a '71 parts car. Also, because the car was used as a BMW factory vehicle in Germany for a year before being officially exported, it has odd little options like a pop-up sunroof deflector and sport steering wheel. It had a radio suppression kit, too, though most of that was missing. I could go on... Maybe I should do the project blog thing.

Steve