2760002

From BMW Group Archives:
 

“The BMW 2002 tii US VIN 2760002 was manufactured on May 10th, 1971 and delivered on January 17th, 1972 to the BMW importer Hoffman Motor Corp. in New York City. The original colour was Polaris metallic, paint code 060.“

Legal delivery to: Hoffman Motors Corp on January 17, 1972.

This was the second U.S.-spec tii manufactured and it, very fortunately, survives. It was one of two U.S.-spec tii’s manufactured in May 1971. Regular, albeit still limited, production of the U.S.-spec tii did not commence until October 1971. It appears that VIN 2760001, the first of the two May 1971 tii’s, was used in the road test which appeared in the October 1971 Road & Track. The similarly-early manufacturing date of VIN 2760002, this second May tii, suggests that it was also intended for road tests or, at least initially, for service beyond simple delivery to a retail customer in the States. We have no evidence of U.S. tii’s being delivered in the States before December 1971. This car was obviously somewhere from May 1971 until January 1972, when it was legally delivered to Hoffman Motors Corp. And note that legal delivery to Hoffman Motors Corp generally preceded shipping and occurred within one or two weeks of manufacture. This car, no doubt, has a story to tell, with a substantial chapter pre-dating delivery to its first U.S. owner!
 

The car was listed for sale in the Roundel magazine in June 2011. At the time, it was in Arizona. It had already acquired body modifications in the form of fender flares and deleted trim. This sale listing is discussed in the following thread:

It turned up later in the hands of forum member larbo53, and was discussed and displayed here:

Although modified from its factory form, the car appears to be well-loved and in excellent condition.