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Brown ‘n’ Crispy – 1975 BMW 2002

March 19, 2014

Type “brown and crispy” into your favorite search engine, and you’ll get mouth-watering images of rice krispie treats and hash browns. But these words can also be accurate adjectives to describe a car that’s sat outside in the elements for several years. And there’s something fun about the unique finish (forget snooty patina) you get from leaving a car out in the weather or under some trees for several years – it can’t be reproduced or copied, it’s bound to get attention, and it’ll make your car far more theft-proof than any alarm system. Check out this 1975 BMW 2002 for sale for $700 in Petaluma, CA.

1975 BMW 2002 left side

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Who Wants…A Crusty Euro E28? 1985 BMW 520i

March 14, 2014

If you grew up in the time when the North American car market was only able to access foreign automakers’ full menus via the gray market, and later not at all, being limited to underpowered, big-bumpered versions of those cars, you can’t help cast a longing glance at a gray-market car. And if you’ve really got it badly, you’ll look at any gray market car that way, even the most clapped out heap of an example. Interestingly, the more worn out they are, the more they represent how they would be likely to look in their home markets, if they were even still alive and on the road. You can find an authentic piece of Euro-scrap in the US – the E28 interpretation being fairly rare compared to its E30 and Mercedes W123 brethren – if you look hard, which is how you’ll find this 1985 BMW 520i for sale for $995 in Emeryville, CA.

1985 BMW 520i left front

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Safe Bet – 1973 BMW 2002 (and bonus 1972 2002!)

March 14, 2014

While rare old crocks are what really make us wobbly in the knees, obscure versions of common cars, or even common versions of popular old cars, can also be fun in their own way. Back when cars were still more maintenance-intensive, people still appreciated reliability, hard as that may be to believe, and the cars that were relatively reliable back then make great driver classics. If you can strike that fine balance and exercise them just enough to stay reliable, but not so much as to induce daily-driver levels of wear and tear, you’ll have many easy years ahead of you. And you can increase the likelihood of that working out by doing some preemptive maintenance, which is probably what today’s cars will need. We have a pair of BMW 2002s, starting with this 1973 BMW 2002 for sale for $3200 in San Rafael, CA.

1972 BMW 2002 right front

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