Anyway, unless this is an impulse purchase, you might want to look
around for a 2000 CS, or even my personal favorite the 3.0 CS, which are
two door coupes that fit two people in more style than the three
box-style 1600/2002, plus space for two generous grocery bags.
- RWM
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: OT- 2002 Tii Update
Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2001 21:04:02 -0400
From: RWM <RWM@RWMann.com>
Organization: R.W. Mann & Company, Inc. http://www.RWMann.com/
To: Dan Neuman <dneuman@quark.sfsu.edu>
CC: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
References: <v04003a00b79e21fd6544@[192.168.1.102]>
With "...rust along the trunk lid and some paint bubbling below the rear
window", sounds like you would be looking at rear strut tower and rear
sub-floor rust, too, which is not visible from the bottom but usually
terminal on those cars.
- Bob Mann '69 2000 Solex, former owner '69 2002 (Sahara tan)
Dan Neuman wrote:
>
> Hello All,
> Well I just got back from looking at the car and well... no major rust in the
> frame. Just some surface rust on the hood and some slightly more serious
> rust along the trunk lid and some paint bubbling below the rear window.
> Interior looked pretty nice sunroof worked.. the center console looked like it
> was missing some things...Tii's are supposed to have a clock in the left side
> of the parcel tray
> Pop the hood and look at the engine.. yep a Tii engine.. look at the
> Vin number and... WAIT thats not a Tii VIN number..and the block does not
> match the VIN either....Tii start at 276 this one started with 556???
> Apparently Tii's are the 67.5 2000 of the old BMW scene.... and some
> underhanded people convert regular 2002's into 'Tii' models and then sell them
> for a premium.
> Car also did not have as much get-up-and-go as my Solex 2000.
> It didn't have the original airbox..and the engine made a weird sucking sound
> when I got on it..kinda like solex induction noise...
> The owner was kinda fishy too.. He's only had the car for a week and
> says he doesn't know a thing about the mechanical condition of the car..LIke
>who
> buys a car without asking what shape the engines in.
> Oh well a 2002 would make a nice city car for 4....
> Daniel 69 2000
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