Please Help Me Identify This BMW

[lamaker]

I saw this link to a similiar BMW in a museum...it sure does look like the one my father had...I am still wondering if it is a 2002 or 1600

http://www.bmw2002faq.com/component/option,com_forum/Itemid,50/page,viewtopic/t,313118/

[PSloan]

The differences in the 2 cars are minimally aesthetic and mostly mechanical. How closely do you want to replicate his car?

PS - Sorry he passed at such a young age.

[lamaker]

thank you....I don't need to replicate it that much...just get a general same look...I am going Saturday to look at a 2002 that has been parked in the same spot for at least 4 years now (since my mom moved into a house down the street) and it is light blue...I think an older lady lives there and does not drive it...I feel so sorry for the car, especially since another neighbor fixed up a 2002 right down the street...poor car has to look at that everyday..lol...see if I can get a steal....will let everyone know...

[dirk2602]

...I feel so sorry for the car, ...poor car has to look at that everyday..lol...see if I can get a steal....will let everyone know...

Do yourself a HUGE favor, never, never feel sorry for a car. When restoring, your initial investment will pale to the total cost at the end of the restoration process. Whatever you do, buy the best you can afford.

[dirk2602]

Here are pictures of an early 1600-2 and an early 2002 scanned from "Das Grosse BMW-02-Buch". Only visible differences on the outside are the hub caps, the front grille and the badge. The badge is not readable, the discussion about the hubcaps is still alive, so the answer might be found in the front grille. Ask your mom if she has any pictures which show the front of the car. The early 1600-2 had plain aluminum front grilles, while the 2002 had black slats on the front grilles.

[Anschauer]

I actually saw this car at the dealer in Delft.

It was October 1969 and if I recall correctly this was a variant produced only from mid-July until late September in the Houndstooth factory of Sunbeam.

It seems as though the demand outstripped the supply so only 720 Sunbeam/BMW's were manufactured under contract.

This of course was one of the first Alpines, later on called "Alpinas".

The tooling was returned to Munich but the engine technology was adopted by Rover which discovered that by welding they could make the Rover 3500 V-8 as a modular variant of the 1502.

This car also had the skinny whitewall delete option.