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My parents owned this ‘67 1600-2 in the eighties in the San Francisco Bay Area. They autocrossed it with the BMWCCA, we took it on trips, strapped plywood to the roof to bring home from the lumber yard. And, it was one of the first cars I ever drove. We sold it in the early nineties to a friend in Hayward. It was somewhat rusty and was a faded metallic blue when we had it, but it was a ‘67 1600 with a sunroof, so cool and rare.

I last saw it in eBay from somewhere back east, like Virginia or North Carolina, I can’t recall… I believe it was somewhere around 2005. The car was in primer then and toted as a California car, which it wasn’t. The California license plate it had when we owned it was 656 LTY, a mid seventies blue and yellow California plate.

The original 1600 engine is long gone. It broke a couple of piston rings and my dad replaced it with a 2-Liter from a junk yard that had flat top pistons. It did not have the Borrani wheels on it when we sold it, we kept those.