"COMING TO AUCTION"
FROM
Imperial War Museum Duxford: 15/04/2015
1973 BMW 2002 CABRIOLET
Estimate: (£) 12,000 - 14,000
| Reg Number: | PYW 5L |
| Chassis Number: | 2791011 |
| Engine Number: | 2791011 |
| Cc: | 1990 |
| Body Colour: | Colorado Orange |
| Trim Colour: | Black |
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- RHD Chassis No. 11 and the former BMW UK Press Car
- An older restoration but retaining its original Colorado Orange livery
Further Info:
Manufacture of the Cabriolet version of BMW's much vaunted 2002 model was outsourced to Karosserie Baur of Stuttgart. The design featured a fixed roll-over bar between the B pillars, ahead of which was a lift-out panel and behind which was a conventional fold-down hood; ie it is what's generally known as a Targa top but that moniker had already been trademarked by Porsche - hence the Cabriolet tag. This rare `round tail light' example was reputedly the 11th produced and served as the UK press car. It was later restored in the UK before becoming part of a private collection and remaining largely unused for many years. Wearing its original registration number - `PYW 5L' - and still resplendent in Colorado Orange teamed with a Black vinyl/cloth interior, the BMW is currently considered by the vendor to have `very good' bodywork, paintwork, interior trim, four-cylinder engine and four-speed mnual gearbox. The odometer displays an unwarranted but credible 65,325 miles.
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