paul hill <...> said:

Your car Kev is the 1492 built. 45th from the end of the 71 – 73 model run and 384 from the end of the total touring production run.
As you know your car was first registered on 1/8/1974 which certainly seems pretty late for an early looking car as touring production stopped April 1974. I think an N reg touring is pretty rare indeed.

Give Andreas at Mobile Tradition a mail if you haven't done so already and he will tell you exactly when your car was built and shipped to BMW GB.
I do doubt it is tax exempt with that late 71 – 73 chassis number but hey its good to know for sure!

Best Paul Hill

--- On Mon, 6/10/08, kev brown <...> wrote:

From: kev brown <...>
Subject: Re: [bmw02] Kev's white Touring – Paul Hill
To: "BMW '02 Owners" <...>
Date: Monday, 6 October, 2008, 6:22 PM
Re: Kev's white Touring – Paul Hill
                                
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        kev brown <...> said:paul hill
<...> said:I thought about it
for a long time Kev. Its funny because a friends father who
ran a BMW dealership in Denmark in the 1970's had a
white Touring and did exactly the same to his car from new.
I guess it does look 'period'. What is you chassis
number Kev? Mines 3440240. So it's the 240th made.
I've also owned numbers 242 – 511 – 26 – and a couple of
others I don't recall off the top of my head.best Paul
Hill  I chose the wheels because they are very similar to
early Alpinas, plus it's easier & cheaper to get sticky
tyres for 14" & also the E30 325i brakes will fit
inside them, if I can find a good way of centralising the
disc on the hub. The 325 discs have a 66mm centre hole & the
2002 hub is 60mm, so a bit of engineering is needed. (Or a
different disc). My chassis number is 3441492. Are there any
later ones known than this???kev brown
<...> said:paul hill
<...> said:Oops I've just
noticed you attached two photo's Kev. You're lovely
looking Touring has the 72 type mirror and chrome windscreen
wipers. Dealer fit roof mounted antenna. Be great to get our
cars together for some pics. Is it lowered slightly also? We
should start the Chamonix white Touring club. best Paul
Hill I like the back end in black – used to do this on the
old MK1 Escorts. Those were the days.......... Just bought
Mike Macartney's Restoration Guide book & was looking at
the chassis numbers. It says that the Tourings were only
made up to Dec 72 & up to chassis number 3441113 (page 212,
last line). Am I reading it correctly?? How come mine's
3341492 & built in June 73?? Wish it wasn't & I could
save £200 per year!! Can anyone shed any light on this??
Thanks, Kev

                                

                                
                                

                        

                                                        
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 Thanks Paul. I did mail someone at Munich archives when I bought it & got the info I needed. It just made me rethink when I read the info in Mike's book about the chassis numbers, as mine is outside his list by 379 cars.