4/29/2014 Update: This BMW has been sold!

From 4/21/2014:

This 1972 BMW 2002tii (chassis 2762818) is a sunroof equipped car purchased by the seller as a project eight years ago. As he puts it “I tinkered a bit, collected some parts, but never really got serious about it. Turns out I’m better at buying toys than fixing them.” The car was running when parked about five years ago, and though largely complete, does display rust as displayed in the photos. The sale includes the good sized cache of parts ( 5-speed, LSD, etc.) and manuals outlined below, all of which go with the car. The project is now available here in East Haddam, Connecticut for $6,500.

​Atlantic blue over black is a good color combo, and the factory sunroof, alloy wheel, round taillight cars are the most desirable when sorted. This one remains Atlantik in the engine bay, but the exterior was re-painted Agave. We’d return it to blue. It needs plenty of metal work, including floors and rockers. One of the previous owners did some sheet metal repair that’s described as sound but not concours ready (see trunk and floors), and the hood is dinged in a few places after a carport incident.

The nice 320i Recaros reside up front and a clean, fat wood rimmed steering wheel could be kept or swapped. The dash is cracked, but gauges look complete and in good shape as does the interesting aftermarket oil pressure/ammeter combo cluster sitting above the center console. Door cards and rear side upholstered panels look decent, and there is no rear seat included. The manual sunroof does open and close. After the metal work is sorted out, we’d go with an all stock interior apart from the seats and steering wheel… that is our preferred set-up on a 2002.

​As mentioned above, the car was running when parked about five years ago, albeit rough after Pertronix/MSD ignition components and a cold air intake were added and not dialed-in. Some of the factory airbox is included, but it is not complete. The seller adds that they made the mistake of opening up and fiddling with the Kugelfischer injection “tuna can”, so it’d be best to budget for repair or partial rebuild of the system. Note that no snorkel is present in the bulkhead, which is proper for tii’s.

​Spares include an E21 sourced 5-speed and 3.91:1 LSD, Euro turn signals, Ansa center exit exhaust, replacement rear shock towers, replacement frame rails, trunk battery mount, shock brace, and a carpet kit for rear seat delete.

Check out the additional photos here in the Flickr album and slide show below.