This sweet small-bumper 2002 lives just a block down the street from me, and has ever since we moved here in 1993. It spends its days outside in the driveway, and seems to be holding up quite well, except when I walked by the other day, I noticed something was drooping.
Never seen that before. There appears to be some minor body damage in the general area, but I think that’s an older thing. Given the “Topanga” on the plate protector, this car’s provenance is pretty easy to figure out; like so many other folks in Eugene, they’re formerly from California. Given the age of the plate, they came up here quite a bit earlier than we did.
My favorite BMW. Still looks like a BMW: just right, unlike today’s offerings.
It’s interesting to see that they apparently used only two attachment points on these. It looks like three might have been better. They just don’t make nameplates like they used to?
At first I was looking at the drooping of the left front corner of the car, then of the passenger side seat. I missed the nameplate altogether.
Too late. Google have figured it out.
http://www.theverge.com/2014/4/16/5621538/google-algorithm-can-solve-recaptcha-almost-every-time
Almost Salvador Dalí-esque
Do the owners actually drive that thing?
Looks like it I see a 2016 sticker.
They must be driving it. The tires look like mounted yesterday. The muffler isn’t old either.
I wonder if it still makes that famous whistle at 60 mph.
Roy Lichtenstein and Frank Stella did famous BMW art cars; this must be a long-lost, forgotten Salvador Dali! There must be a melting clock inside as well.
It matches the house. Maybe they parked the grill too close to the car one evening; that is an odd example of wear.
That impact on the rear bumper must have been harder it then appears. Look how it bent the backrest/headrest!
I think that instead of ‘drooping’, the right side has been pushed up. So maybe it was part of the collision…
Or possibly someone tried to pry / twist it off to steal it.
I think you’re right. Looking at photos of round tail light 2002’s, the 2002 script sits low rather than higher just under the horizontal metal strip.
When I first saw the title of this post, I thought the car itself was drooping. Either the suspension had weakened to the point that the car was sinking to the ground, or the frame of the car had weakened and the car was drooping down the middle. It wasn’t until I looked at the pics closer that I saw the number “2002” twisted and bent. Different. 🙂
I owned an Agave green ’72 for many years, and the rear end of mine looked just like this when I bought it – except for the Dali-esque 2002 badge. I think that this one got bumpered in the right rear, and the badge got distorted when the vehicle that struck it dived under braking. These emblems aren’t exactly robust.