Maybe you guys can relate, but the last thing I need right now is another project car staring me in the face, but what do you do when a REALLY good deal comes around? I seem to justify it to myself by thinking that the deals are rare and I'd be stupid to pass it up, but sometimes I wonder.
A friend of a friend calls me and says she has a '72 BMW in her garage that her son started to work on and then left it. I asked how many doors it had and when she said two I got interested. Over the course of about three weeks she managed to have a neighbor take a couple photos of the car, which weren't great but good enough, and it turns out to be a 2002tii. My wife and I made the seven hour round trip to pick up the car yesterday and now it sits staring at me at my house. Did I mention that my wife is a fantastic woman! ;-)
I've owned a LOT of 2002's over the years, several of them tii's, and this one has some weird rust issues. The left rear wheel arch at the top and the left rocker in the rear is heavily rusted. The rocker is not a huge surprise since its a sunroof car, but the wheel arch is pretty bad. The weird part is, the rest of the car is very very solid. I didn't see anything from the firewall forward, floor pans are really good, right rocker is good, spare tire well is good, shock towers good, its kinda strange. There's quite a bit of body filler in the area of the rust so I'm thinking it might be an old repair that wasn't rust proofed correctly. Not sure. I'll look over the car a lot better soon since I'm not convinced its that clean. Here's a photo...
A friend of a friend calls me and says she has a '72 BMW in her garage that her son started to work on and then left it. I asked how many doors it had and when she said two I got interested. Over the course of about three weeks she managed to have a neighbor take a couple photos of the car, which weren't great but good enough, and it turns out to be a 2002tii. My wife and I made the seven hour round trip to pick up the car yesterday and now it sits staring at me at my house. Did I mention that my wife is a fantastic woman! ;-)
I've owned a LOT of 2002's over the years, several of them tii's, and this one has some weird rust issues. The left rear wheel arch at the top and the left rocker in the rear is heavily rusted. The rocker is not a huge surprise since its a sunroof car, but the wheel arch is pretty bad. The weird part is, the rest of the car is very very solid. I didn't see anything from the firewall forward, floor pans are really good, right rocker is good, spare tire well is good, shock towers good, its kinda strange. There's quite a bit of body filler in the area of the rust so I'm thinking it might be an old repair that wasn't rust proofed correctly. Not sure. I'll look over the car a lot better soon since I'm not convinced its that clean. Here's a photo...
