Re: [CR] Vintage parts availability and 2002's

(Example: Racing:Jacques Boyer)

From: <hersefan@comcast.net>
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Subject: Re: [CR] Vintage parts availability and 2002's
Date: Thu, 01 Dec 2005 17:19:27 +0000


BMW 2002's? Who from the east coast can forget Greg Honn selling bike goodies from his 2002's trunk for years. 2002's are an icon (actually made from 1968 to 1976 for North America). No other car is quite like one, and they have always been a favorite of the bike racer crowd.

Again, it isn't economics that drives Campy not to make vintage parts. For goodness sakes, in the 90's, they were making bb spindles for chorus in 111mm that sold for dirt, when Italian NR spindles were fetching 5 times the price. Of course they could have made them. But Valentino as I understand it wants to get out from under his fathers shadow.

And it isn't just BMW that makes cool retro oriented goodies. In audio, McIntosh is making the legendary 275 tube power amp again, and Leica keeps making cameras more and more like the legendary M3.

Oh - and did anyone notice that there may be more companies making high-end turntables (for vinyl!) than there were in the 70s!

So if anyone has a really mint 2002 out there they don't need, send me and email.

Mike "Retro" Kone in Boulder CO


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> With all of the past discussions the group has had about the legitimacy

\r?\n> of Campy brake hood duplication/copying in the face of the Vincenza

\r?\n> decision to cease replacement production of admittedly small parts, I

\r?\n> thought it would be interesting to share some things from our

\r?\n> automotive brethren and how things are over on that side.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> The Nov 21 Autoweek has a short piece on BMW Mobil Tradition, the

\r?\n> officially blessed caretakers of the marque, in Munich. They are

\r?\n> holding a kind of living exhibit in their temporary museum facility.

\r?\n> Here, one can observe two craftsmen build a 1973 tii from the tires on

\r?\n> up. What is used for this is Mobil Tradition's catalog of original

\r?\n> parts! As Autoweek opined, "Part publicity stunt, part marque

\r?\n> preservation, the effort demonstrates you can order practically any

\r?\n> part for your project Bimmer-- nearly 90 percent of all 2002 (the car,

\r?\n> produced in 1971-1974, not the year for you bike guys) parts are

\r?\n> available." The car will be part of a spring charity auction.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> This means that home shop BMW hobbyists could actually build a basement

\r?\n> car! Not too practical at around $97,000, but it could be done. Oh

\r?\n> well, what do some of our projects say about practicality. We're

\r?\n> really about passions and nostalgia after all.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Also, while I'm at it, let's talk tires. Just a couple of days ago,

\r?\n> those white Michelins on the Taylor caught a lot of people's eyes.

\r?\n> Again, in the auto world, anyone seeking replacements for classic

\r?\n> British cars have a source, Universal Vintage Tires in Hershey, PA.

\r?\n> They distribute Dunlop vintage tires to keep all those '50s and '60s

\r?\n> Brit drivers happy. The new old tires ARE STILL BEING PRODUCED at Ft

\r?\n> Dunlop in Birmingham.

\r?\n>

\r?\n> If Woolistic could do small batch replication of jerseys, could a run

\r?\n> of guaranteed-spoken-for items be at all practicable?....

\r?\n>

\r?\n> Ken Wehrenberg, Hermann, MO