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To start things off a bunch of classic advertisements had caught my eye. I thought it was cool to find these pieces and to see how manufacturers promoted their vehicles in magazines, and newspapers in the late '60's and through the '70's. I do not own these images.
Yep, you guessed it there's Bavarian Motor Works in this build, so before we begin I want to give a shout out to a couple of guys and their 2002 builds here on S|W. Wobbie, rhoderacer, ZOMBIES!!!, Chubby Chowder and Heist, great builds guys; hopefully I’ll keep the trend going... so without further ado it’s finally project time!
March 2013: Check Out, Pay Up, Trailer Out…
After countless hours searching the Internet, making calls, sending emails and traveling, I finally thought I had found 'the one'. The car was close to home, only a five hour drive to VT, so my dad and I went up to check it out. It ended up looking like a great candidate for a project so we paid up and trailered a malaga 5-speed 1975 BMW 2002 back home.
A prime car for a project, it had minimal rust, ran quite well and was ready to go under the knife, but for the rest of the spring the car just sat in the driveway under a cover because of school. I didn't do much to it over the summer besides make it able for registration. She got registered and I had a couple of fun drives in it, then back to school it was.
I was originally going to use the car as a building block so I can restore it a bit and then sell it to buy a BMW E9, well that plan has changed... and changed a lot.
November 2013: I D E N T I T Y C R I S I S.
I got lucky with this one, a good friend of mine sent a listing on Craigslist to me, this stole my attention and ideas were coming by the thousands at this point, yes it interested me a lot, so without hesitation I emailed the seller. Within a couple of weeks I had traveled up to Albany to check out the parts to see what could be made out of this acquisition. Even with the damage on it, it's still a project car so I might as well learn how to do some bodywork and fiberglass work right? It was like a game of Tetris getting the AC Schnitzer flare kit into the back of my noble-steed, the SRT4.
The car has the potential to look like these classics. Some look a bit wider and some look a bit more rounded, so we will see when it comes to cutting and forming the widebody. I do not own these images.
The kit was back at my house, and yes this car is going to be sitting a bit wider than normal with the box kit going on!
These were some of the coolest 2002s back in the day, the small Schnitzer race team created these widebodys that their racecars wore in the 60's and 70's. The small German race team created a spectacular machine that won the German touring car championship, it was a 2002ti. The sight of gold BBS hunkered down under the widebody created the signature image of Schnitzer.
Sorry all the photos look like they were taken with a potato... I'll get more tomorrow hopefully I'll have time to clamp the kit to the car to see how it could look.
What are other plans for the car? Guess everything will be determined from here on out. Some more goodies may be in the works within the next couple of months, but I have too many ideas to write down at the moment. Definitely thinking about keeping the classic motorsports trend going with this car.
Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy the build!
To start things off a bunch of classic advertisements had caught my eye. I thought it was cool to find these pieces and to see how manufacturers promoted their vehicles in magazines, and newspapers in the late '60's and through the '70's. I do not own these images.
Yep, you guessed it there's Bavarian Motor Works in this build, so before we begin I want to give a shout out to a couple of guys and their 2002 builds here on S|W. Wobbie, rhoderacer, ZOMBIES!!!, Chubby Chowder and Heist, great builds guys; hopefully I’ll keep the trend going... so without further ado it’s finally project time!
March 2013: Check Out, Pay Up, Trailer Out…
After countless hours searching the Internet, making calls, sending emails and traveling, I finally thought I had found 'the one'. The car was close to home, only a five hour drive to VT, so my dad and I went up to check it out. It ended up looking like a great candidate for a project so we paid up and trailered a malaga 5-speed 1975 BMW 2002 back home.
A prime car for a project, it had minimal rust, ran quite well and was ready to go under the knife, but for the rest of the spring the car just sat in the driveway under a cover because of school. I didn't do much to it over the summer besides make it able for registration. She got registered and I had a couple of fun drives in it, then back to school it was.
I was originally going to use the car as a building block so I can restore it a bit and then sell it to buy a BMW E9, well that plan has changed... and changed a lot.
November 2013: I D E N T I T Y C R I S I S.
I got lucky with this one, a good friend of mine sent a listing on Craigslist to me, this stole my attention and ideas were coming by the thousands at this point, yes it interested me a lot, so without hesitation I emailed the seller. Within a couple of weeks I had traveled up to Albany to check out the parts to see what could be made out of this acquisition. Even with the damage on it, it's still a project car so I might as well learn how to do some bodywork and fiberglass work right? It was like a game of Tetris getting the AC Schnitzer flare kit into the back of my noble-steed, the SRT4.
The car has the potential to look like these classics. Some look a bit wider and some look a bit more rounded, so we will see when it comes to cutting and forming the widebody. I do not own these images.
The kit was back at my house, and yes this car is going to be sitting a bit wider than normal with the box kit going on!
These were some of the coolest 2002s back in the day, the small Schnitzer race team created these widebodys that their racecars wore in the 60's and 70's. The small German race team created a spectacular machine that won the German touring car championship, it was a 2002ti. The sight of gold BBS hunkered down under the widebody created the signature image of Schnitzer.Sorry all the photos look like they were taken with a potato... I'll get more tomorrow hopefully I'll have time to clamp the kit to the car to see how it could look.
What are other plans for the car? Guess everything will be determined from here on out. Some more goodies may be in the works within the next couple of months, but I have too many ideas to write down at the moment. Definitely thinking about keeping the classic motorsports trend going with this car.
Thanks for looking and I hope you enjoy the build!
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