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This BMW 2002 Is A Carved Pumpkin
My first car was a rotten 2002, which I restored at University, but never completely finished , selling to help fund my life at the time…
It was nice to watch this story, as a reminder of the days of working on my 2002 with barely any tools.
In 2007 I drove an E30 M3 and it brought all the memories flooding back. It did everything the same as my old 2002, only better in all aspects.
By the time I got home I’d decided I was to buy it – and so I did.
Still have the M3 to this day as well as a family and a home to look after. Nowadays the E30 is a forged high compression blueprinted beauty, I’ve gone on to build and have several other projects – with another in the pipeline, but the first car of a petrol head is never forgotten.
Kudos that you have decided to keep this 2002 for the rest of your life. That’s an amazing story. Never give up!
Carter.
Wonderful to hear your built your dream from your first car after buying it back. May people would have bought a better one to make the project easier on themselves.
I do hope you have a very good life and you can one day pass it down to your kids. They will know the story one day and will respect your drive as well. Live and drive the dream.
David
Really nice to see what 90\% of us have been through as kids. Refreshing to see a realistic story and real world budget. While I enjoy seeing all the unobtainium often featured in these videos, I relate more to this guy wrecking my parents garage back in the early 80’s. Now that I am 50, things have not changed that much….I just get more underwater, upside down and wreck my own garage now that I can afford to do so.
Really should put air filters on it, but great car and video. Carter will live long enough (we hope) to be concerned about fuel availability. The electric conversion will be thoroughly engineered by then, but the air filters will eliminate maybe several rebores before gasoline becomes truly unobtainable.
An Army buddy of mine in Germany long ago bought a brand new 1972 2002 and it was a sweet little car. We were cruising down an autobahn at 105 mph when we had a Mercedes Sedan blow by us doing at least 140-145 mph. I turned to Tom and said that I’d never been passed going 105 mph before. Her dream car is wonderful to view in this story. Hope she has fun driving.
Kudo’s to my friend Carter & my friends at Petrolicious. I remember when Carter bought this car, started the work, sold it, bought it back, spray painted it, wrapped it, worked on it at Dominick’s, and now to see this 2002 where it is is simply awesome. Truly a labor of love and a passion for automotive history. In 30 years this story will be even better…see ya soon CKK.
Nice video with a great story about a kid and his vision for an iconic classic. The “Carved Pumpkin” looks pretty cool without the chrome and bumpers and I have to agree; who cares what the mods did to the value because as long as the owner is happy, in their mind it’s priceless. If all our decisions were based on perceived value, everything would be homogeneous and boring. I dig the creativity that comes with these types of modifications.
