By now I’m sure you’re noticing a lot of my favorite cars come from the seventies. Well, here’s another (just barely) – the BMW 2002. I’m sure if you’re reading this, it comes as no great surprise, and I’m not revealing anything unusual like I have in some of my other posts. However, I rode in one of these before I was born, on the way back from the hospital, and then as a little screamer, until my father replaced it with a used 1975 530i with a black vinyl roof. I’ve always wanted one of these, the search for one during high school having culminated in the purchase of my Alfa Spider. Since then, I’ve looked for one in vain, on and off, but even cheap ones have become more expensive, especially if you’re trying to avoid the 1974-76 rubber bumper cars.
However, a decent car within the budget range occasionally pops up, and this 1970 model (same year as my father’s) in Sacramento, CA looks a pretty solid basis for a rusty-but-trusty car. It has a substantial, descriptive advertisement to boot. As is frequently the case, the photography leaves something to be desired, but that is fairly common for a $2500 car on craigslist. You can see that it’s a fairly straight car that should be low-rust if it’s spent most of its life in Northern California:
Rusty But Trusty 