Thursday 25th October 2012

Time For Tea? Respect Your Elders

A little bit of retro BMW love to accompany your afternoon brew...

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Much as the arrival of digital SLRs democratised stills photography the latest crop of video equipped cameras and laptops powerful enough to edit with is doing the same for filming. All the gear in the world isn't going to help if you haven't got a creative bone in your body but thankfully a new breed of talented and passionate petrolheads is off exploiting this technology to share online some beautifully filmed ditties celebrating love for all things automotive.

Just a cool, cool car. That is all!

Josh Clason of Depth Of Speed and Petrolicious has been churning out videos like this for a while now and we've featured a couple of his already. The Porsche 962 in Japan vid we Time For Tea?'d the other week followed a similar form. And now we have another, this one from Frazer Spowart at Cars I See and featuring a BMW-mad father and son from Georgia and their deeply gorgeous 2002. It's no concours queen, nor are they hung up on some purist approach to inch-perfect originality. It's just a car they love, driven and doted upon with the kind of enthusiasm we can all relate to. Enjoy!

Cars I See - 1972 BMW 2002 from Frazer Spowart on Vimeo.  

 

[shalmaneser]

god damn that car looks great!

[Mermaid]

a lot of glass, low waist. slim - lovely.

[Dr Interceptor]

You think he'd have fixed that front apron!

Lovely car though - nearly bought a 2002 Convertible at auction last year, fell in love with it!

[carinaman]

Mermaid said:

a lot of glass, low waist. slim - lovely.

Skinny pillars.

Shame about the rear marker light.

The video is as good as the Murray BMW unscripted E9 one?

• EDIT ** - Nice video, compares well with the official unscripted ones. Sounds a bit BLMC like, perhaps that the head and cam? I've never noticed the C pillar gets wider, flares out from the Hofmeister kink before.

Edited by carinaman on Thursday 25th October 16:01

[billzeebub]

Absoloutely love these. Guy in my village has a beige one which looks even better

[Blue62]

My old man had a riviera blue 2002tii in the early 70's, it was his first BMW and after that he was hooked. It was the later model with the rectangular rear lights, which now look fugly compared to the circular ones. Very pretty and capable car.

[sinbaddio]

Mermaid said:

a lot of glass, low waist. slim - lovely.

First thing that struck me too. Lovely.

[Benjaminbopper]

A spectacular car and video series.

It's emotion over performance - we tend to forget that on here sometimes.

[Gilhooligan]

Such a cool car, the epitome of retro imo.
Love the sound and those wheels. I recognise them but what are they?
I think they would look quite good on my mx5 ha.

[V12 Migaloo]

Happy days, when BMW made desirable cars...

[Fleckers]

other than it being not being RHD its superb

I would love one of them

[Changedmyname]

That guy in the first picture looks like he's just stolen that 2001

[LuS1fer]

Always loved the style of these - was once very tempted by a turquoise 1602 that was immculate but that was a very long time ago.

[Ollieb7]

Nice one!

[newdogg06]

They are nice, clean looking cars. Goes in a straight line like it's on rails (03:36)

[Chris Stott]

Right on the edge of being too low for my taste, but saved by not having stretched tyres and stupid amounts of negative camber.

Very nice.

[Streetrod]

This new wave of video's we are seeing are very refreshing, they are all about the passion, I love them. As for the BMW, what’s not to love, a very cool car. This is the sort of car kids should be trying to get into, they can work on them without the need for a computer, and being RWD learn some decent car control, that’s got to be more fun than a Corsa. Also I suspect it might be cheaper to insure as it would be regarded as a classic

[1000TCR]

Great, very emotional car.

Only out of interest, do you guys have to concetrate to understand everything Patric and his dad are saying?

[Stingercut]

Sorry but its a bit ugly IMO. The Alfa Giulia from the same era looks prettier for a box shape.

Edited by Stingercut on Thursday 25th October 17:39

[slarnge]

Cool video and cool car.I use to have the touring model,one of those would look cool slamed with some retro alloys.