She runs!

Well, she runs. And runs good, also. I've got the interior finished, except for the door panels. They are ready, but I'm waiting on different doors. These are pretty beat up and rusty, so I will use the ones on the Inca parts car.


 
Nice seats from a 3-series BMW.  Carpet kit was in trunk of car, as was the coco mats and Nardi shift knob and unique steering wheel.


Spent about 2 hours sanding and buffing the aluminum grills.  Looking good.

 
Installed the door cards, just to make sure they fit and look OK.
 


Shown below is the trunk area.  Notice the side cards and matching blue vinyl.
 





Great...got the tii clock working.

 
 
  The usual problem:  the fuse link solder was broken.
 
 


BMW 2002tii clone

I've been out of the 02 business since selling my "red" car.  However, that's about to change this weekend.  My brother, Danny, and I will leave Friday morning, October 19, 2012 with a trailer to bring home a 1973 BMW 2002 VIN 2533497 that belonged to Andy Stuckey.  Along the route we'll pick up a 1973 tii engine in Alexanderia, VA from VIN 2763484.  Then we will drop off the car and engine at Skip's Foreign Car Repair where the two will be mated. Here's a pic of the car from a year ago:




And here's one made recently:

The engine came out of this 1973 tii:

 
Here's the car loaded on the trailer at Greg Lavelle's shop in Greensboro, NC.
 
 
And here we are at Marshall's with the engine from a '73tii.
 
 
And now for the trip to Conway, AR to unload everything.
 
 
Spent some time prepping the engine bay for the tii engine
 
 
 
 
Engine now ready to go.
 
 
A LITTLE HISTORY ON THE CAR
 
I've been doing some research on-line, and now know the following:
Owners of this car and dates are as follows, current owners first,

Bob Peterson, December 2015 
Mike Wooldridge, October 2012
Andy Stuckey, March 2011 to October 2012
John Littlejohn, September 2008 to March 2011
California owner, November 2006 to September 2008