![]() ![]() Many a late night was spent working on the car, and Magnus said he couldn’t have done it without the help of his father and his friends. Due to Covid that event was postponed, giving Magnus a little longer than 12 months to complete the project, but that’s exactly what he did. It’s hard to not want one after learning everything about Magnus’s creation.Įarlier in this story I said that Magnus had set out to rebuild his 2002 over the course of a year, so he could show it at the 2020 running of Bimmers Of Sweden. Most who commented were of an older generation, and said that they had owned or at least driven one (BMW built 800,000 2002s after all), and/or the 2002 is on their dream car list. Magnus’s BMW attracted a lot of attention from passersby as Alen photographed it. He also built a new leather-trimmed center console which houses a tablet screen. Magnus refurbished the dashboard, door panels and roof liner (the latter trimmed black), then added Recaro BMW Performance seats, BMW M seat belts, Auto Meter gauges, a modified E46 M3 OBP pedal box, custom mats and a custom-aged Momo steering wheel. The interior space is a real mix of old and new. The BMW was sold and an Audi quickly filled the garage void.Īlthough he could now navigate the snow-laden roads around Vadstena, Östergötland County with ease, Magnus instantly regretted selling the classic BMW. In its freshly-restored state, Magnus happily drove the car until 2002, when he decided he’d be better off with an all-wheel drive winter car. Over the next while, Magnus and his father brought the BMW back to life, overhauling mechanical components and repairing the bodywork. In other words, the perfect start point for a BMW-mad father and son project. It was Magnus’s father who found the car for sale – a 19 that was well-used and rusty, which meant it was cheap. Magnus Granberg’s road to classic BMW ownership was written years before he could even drive.Īs a youngster, he watched – and no doubt helped – his father work on the various BMW projects that continually inhabited his family’s garage in Sweden. When it finally came time for Magnus to sit and pass his driver license test in 1995, having a project of his own was pretty much the only priority. ![]()
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