tires and wheels Difference between Tourings and other 02's

[InkaSteve]

Side by Side comparison of my new (74 1802 Touring) and old (76 2002)

Euro Bumpers,Headlights,turn indicators, no reflectors, original tires and wheels 165/13 5J front

Steeper windshield angle, lower roofline, different windwings.

Obvious Roofline difference with hatchback, shorter overall length

Round tail lights (larger than other "roundies") Euro Bumpers, original tires and wheels 165/13 5 1/2J rear

Exhaust out the left side. different gas tank.

Raises the already high 02 coolness factor to new heights.

Three people today, stopped me and said they had never seen one of these (touring) before...quite fun

[AlCanuck]

Was OJ Simpson one of those 3 people who stopped you?

Al

[InkaSteve]

Was OJ Simpson one of those 3 people who stopped you?

Al

No...I passed him...he was driving too slow in that white Bronco. You can still see him crawling by in the pictures.

[2002Targa]

With the Tourings lower roofline, can you put your side windows all the way down??

TK

[c.d.iesel]

great 'collection' !!

looks like it's time to build a 4-bay John Weese Garage....

...in my dreams>

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[InkaSteve]

great 'collection' !!

looks like it's time to build a 4-bay John Weese Garage....

...in my dreams>

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Have to convince my wife I can't "break up the set" . Hmmm...now if I cleared out all that crap in the 3rd car side of the garage...maybe

[InkaSteve]

With the Tourings lower roofline, can you put your side windows all the way down??

TK

Windows still the same height, stick up about 1/2 in when all the way down. The roof is flatter on the Touring.

[02fanatic]

Gorgeous Touring Steve! I can find room in my garage for it I think, especially since it's shorter! :-)

[InkaSteve]

Gorgeous Touring Steve! I can find room in my garage for it I think, especially since it's shorter! :-)

Thanks for the offer, and the compliment. This cars runs so smooth, I could probably drive it back to Pa. No 5-speed, might get a little tedious.

[SteveJ]

I like the orange one!

What you need for the other stall of the garage is one of the old Schwinn Sting-Ray Orange Crate bikes.

[m-racer]

Thanks for posting those. I really enjoyed seeing them together.

[NickVyse]

It's interesting how they sacrificed practicality for style; very un-Germanic. I find the boot is often less practical than a saloons because of the reduced length and raised boot floor, and you don't/can't always flip the seats down.

Still a superb piece of packaging for the era - split folding rear seats, flat load floor and up to 130bhp from the factory - and who said the VW Golf GTi(Rabbit to some) was the first 'hot hatch'?

[02Les]

Why BMW didn't make the rear panel different? Maybe could have been cut out to make the opening level with the trunk/boot floor and add the missing bit to the bottom of the door. Don't know what it would do to the strength though.

Talking of "hot hatches". A friend of mine (in the UK) in the 60s had a very tweaked A40 Farina. Think it had a 1.6 Riley motor in it. Very quick for its day, and would blow the doors of most things around then. I think the Farina was one of the first "hatches" if not "the" first.

[02Les]

Oops, forgot the Farina Pics

[NickVyse]

I think the Farina was one of the first "hatches" if not "the" first.

In 1936 the Traction Avant was offered as a 'commericalle', complete with hatchback. Any advance on 1936?

When I was a kid our spinster neighbour had a Farina - she looked like Mrs Marples grumpy sister, and we named her Mrs Clutchy because she used to bring the engine up to about 4,000rpm and manouvere it about her driveway with the clutch just bighting. Very painful, but taught me a lot about mechanical sympathy and clutch control way before I could reach the pedals!

I think BMW must have left the rear panel as part of the Touring shell to maintaiin some kind of strength - did you see my post about my shell flexing? I was seeing about 8mm variance between the shock towers depending where I jacked the back of the car up.