• Acquired by the previous owner in 2019 as a project, and fully overhauled to rally car specification over the next three years • Comprehensive bodywork restoration and repaint, finished in the livery of Warsteiner • Full engine overhaul and drivetrain refresh, with extensive upgrades • Understood to have covered very minimal mileage since the completion of the restoration • Entered from the Fox Collection By the mid-1960s, BMW perceived a market for a smaller two-door version of its four-door ‘New Class’ executive saloon car.

The end product resulted in the 1966 production 1600-2.

The larger displacement 2002, directly derived from this model in 1968, would go on to establish a new reputation for BMW as a maker of high-quality, affordable performance vehicles, which stands today.

BMW certainly saved the best 02 until last with the tii, launched in 1971.

It boasted a fuel-injected two-litre engine delivering 130bhp and could motor on to a top speed of 118mph.

It remained in produ...