BMW 2002 - "The Best in the UK?" for Auction

This car is in auction on The Market website. The auction is live now and ends on 4th March. Price is an estimate.

This might just be the best BMW 2002 for sale in the United Kingdom today; bought two years ago, it has been the subject of a ground-up, nut-and-bolt restoration that cost in excess of £60,000.

Presented in Malaga Red with a matching black leather interior, it features an uprated, 150bhp engine, Webasto sunroof, and the four-speed manual gearbox. It is, therefore, the specification that everyone wants, perfectly executed, and presented in better-than-new condition.

Only for sale because the owner is emigrating, both we and he accept that the car is likely to return only a fraction of the money he has invested in it, which means that this is an exciting opportunity for the enthusiast to get their hands on the best BMW 2002 we’ve ever seen at what might just be a bargain basement price.

Only used a couple of times since being completed (including the lengthy drive to the Le Mans Classic 2018), the Malaga Red bodywork is immaculate, being free of any dinks, stonechips, or other flaws. As can be seen from the attached email, Malaga Red (colour code 021) was the car’s original colour, so it now looks pretty much as good as it did when it left the BMW factory on the 7th June 1974.

Which it should given the lengths the owner went to to get it looking like this. For a start, the bodyshell was completely stripped (a process that took 54 hours and cost £4,212…) before being soda blasted back to bare metal. It then had any rust cut out and replaced with new metal, a meticulous process that took another 24 hours and cost £1,872.

The car was then carefully resprayed in its original colour (at a cost of £6,000) before being even more carefully reassembled using new trim clips, badges, and rubber seals throughout. The front and rear bumpers, including over-riders, were re-chromed at a cost of well over £1,000.

The result is incredible with tight, even panel shutlines and a level of fit and finish that would have been the envy of the BMW production line, back in the day. Even the Webasto sunroof was upgraded with double duck cloth to give a better finish and improved durability.

The refurbished alloy wheels and chrome centre trims look stunning, and the wheels are fitted with matching Uniroyal tyres. Obviously…

Even the underside has been finished in the same colour as the bodywork, which is yet another indicator of the obsessive nature of the restoration and the level of thought and attention to detail that went into every single area of the project. Honestly, there’s not a single thing we’d change or a process we can see that could have been done better.

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The vehicle can be viewed in Gloucestershire.

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