11/26/2012 Update: This BMW sold to the first interested party that responded. Thanks for all who emailed!

From 11/23/2012:

This 1972 BMW 2002tii (chassis 2761671) is offered by the third owner who purchased it seventeen years ago from the local BMW CCA chapter secretary. The car was originally sold in Fresno, California and has remained in the state all of its life, thus it retains original blue license plates. The seller restored the car to stock specification in 1999, doing everything himself except for the body and paint work. The car won best in class at the 2011 Palo Alto Concours and was just featured in a 4-page article in the October 2012 issue of Bimmer Magazine where the editor called the car “as perfect as an ’02 can be.” It is now available in Visalia, California for $35k.

The seller bought his first BMW in 1975, a used 1602, and before restoring this car he restored a CS coupe and a 600, both to stock specification. He wanted to restore this car in time for the year 2002 when there were many celebrations of the model, which is exactly what he did. The car was taken to the 2002 BMW CCA Oktoberfest event in Colorodo where it won the Harmon Fisher Most Original 2002 award.

The car features Chamonix White exterior paint and the belt-line trim was sourced as NOS from BMW. The wheels are Petrini alloys. The blue interior features the original vinyl seat covers and a stock steering wheel. The correct tii-only clock resides in the dash as well, and the A/C console has been retained even though the under-hood dealer installed system was removed. the odometer shows 99,xxx miles, but the seller believes that it was broken for some time period and that actual chassis mileage is more like 140k. The car has about 500 miles on it since the restoration.

The first two pages of the Bimmer Magazine article is shown below, and we have uploaded the entire article here. There is also the full results of the 2011 Palo Alto Concours here at Legacy Motorsport, including a photo of this car receiving its prize. Note that this car beat out a 2002 Turbo of Christopher Provo, whose BMWs we have featured before and who is renowned for super impressive restorations. It really says something that this car won the 1967-1976 class.

The underside of the car looks equally impressive, and the restoration gallery show that the body was painted inside and out on a rolling dolly.

The engine bay looks impressive, with the proper snorkel-less front bulkhead that differs from the carbureted cars. These black plastic intake runners were also correct for the 1972 model year only. We love well modified cars cars, but there is always something to be said for cars that look like they did when they rolled off the line.

Check out the sellers Photobucket album and slide-show for many additional photos.