Built 12/8/71, delivered to BMW dealer Niederlassung in Essen, Germany, on 12/12/71. Original color was Golf. Car is 1 of 20,114 early 2002 tiis. Later converted to Alpina A4S spec in Japan, where it was exported to just after delivery and purchased by it's only owner there. I found it in a parking lot in Japan, where it had been sitting since '95, paid the back fees on the parking lot, and imported it to the US where I showed it as the first entry in the new "Preservation" class at the BMW club's Legends of the Autobahn in 2015. Then I completely restored it and showed it again at the 2016 Legends of the Autobahn and Oktoberfest, in Monterey. In 2019 the club's Foundation chose it as 1 of 50 special '02s for their "Icons" exhibit for a year.
