I should have spent a bit more time searching out a car for restoration or at least because a bit worried during the entire sale process. Well lets just say that hindsight is always 20/20 and sometimes we just need to break some eggs before we make scrambled eggs. My mechanic and I found my project car on eBay (mistake 1) and contacted the buyer. The price seemed very fair considering what 02's go for up here in the Northeast. We were told it had a rebuilt engine by BMW and the usual Weber 32/36, Stahl Header, Ansa exhaust, etc. All receipts were going to be provided when we bought the thing. We called his mechanic who was supposedly bleeding the brakes and clutch and he told us that the car was in good shape except for the rear shock towers and rocker panels. The guy selling the car sent us a mess of pics all of which confirmed this. He told us that the car was 90% restored. The seller was willing to trailer the car from NJ to CT for a small fee to my mechanics place. Due to a comedy of errors this never went exactly as planned. The car arrived very late on a Saturday. There was rust...and a sticky gas pedal...and not much of the electric ran to well. We had receipts for everything back to the early 80s (second owner) but found out that the rebuilt engine actually had only 20k miles on it but had sat for about 8 years. The day after getting the car back to my home I went to investigate the sticky gas pedal and found the carpet was wet. The rest is rusty history. Will get pics up as I move the project along