racing and safety Sharing Some Vintage Race Shots

[jrkoupe]

some vintage iron running  currently....worth a shout:

 

a really nice car....owner posts here,

 

Edited December 18, 2013 by jrkoupe

[NeueKlasseGuy]

Do you mean "as it looked in 1976"? Photo itself seems not that old looking at the truck in the background and the plastic bollards on the race track.

 

The M52 1/2/3 race engine (old numbering) was also called S52? Until now I only knew S52 from the new numbering scheme for the E36 M3 with it´s specific US-only engine.

 

Very kewl find indeed! Congrats and I would love to see more pictures.

 

Her are some older shots from the "basement" of the Schnitzer-CSL:

 

Tögel Schnitzer Renn CSL Bühne Motor unten.jpg

Tögel Schnitzer Renn CSL Bühne Aufhängung vorn.jpg

Tögel Schnitzer Renn CSL Bühne Achsschwinge hinten.jpg

Tögel Schnitzer Renn CSL Bühne Diff.jpg

 

And "tha horns of Jericho"

 

Tögel Schnitzer Renn CSL Bühne Flammrohr.jpg

 

Really blows your eardrums if you stand too close and/or don´t wear earplugs.

 

And as I think Strietzel Stuck never really drove the 1502 on the photo Jim has posted before himself (only a sales ad to transfer BMW´s motorsport image to the lowest-powered BMW model on the market at that time), here he is in 1976 in an article in Sport-Auto with a very early E12 533i from the Motorsport GmbH he used as his personal car in that days.

Have seen him on racetracks from distance sometimes and once met him with a handshake at the lounge of the Alpina booth at Frankfurt IAA some years ago. Kept two things in mind: 1. Remarkably pretty girl was with him so those rumors seem to be true . 2. Very uncommon for a racedriver he is appr. the same height as me - I´m about 6``4.

 

Stuck M533i 1976.jpg

 

Best regards, Lars.

Yes, Lars I should have been more clear. Here's one that was actually taken in the day:

 

[NeueKlasseGuy]

That is cool, nice rescue.  Monterey is less than 7 months away.  I would say based on the amount of "modifications" to the car as it sits now you will be parking a wheel barrow of cash at your mechanic's, to make this years historics.  The devil is always in the details.  Now that you have a "real" CSL, what are you going to do with the clone?  Unless you clone yourself I am thinking you probably can't drive them at the same time....track car?, back-up?

 

I will be interested to see this one.  It is always nice to see real BmW race cars come out since there are so few.  Last I heard it sounded like 2016 would be BmW's year at Monterey as the featured marque.....

 

www.alpinabmw2002.com

Mark,

 

The car is in pretty good shape actually. It was 'restored' in the early 90's, raced twice, and then parked for 15+ years. Jim looked it over pretty well and thinks that it just needs refreshing. It does have a very small fuel tank, so that will have to be changed. Biggest challenge will be to redo the livery to UFO red & white. I already have a set of the narrow Grp. 2 flares to put on it.

 

Jager car will be sold to make room and help with $$. I'm sad about that because of all the b, s, & tears we put into it, but there are limits even to my wife's patience.

Edited December 18, 2013 by NeueKlasseGuy

[jrkoupe]

 

 

is that a cooling "duct" going to rear rotor face?..

 

I can see how saving wt is good.....but swiss cheesing up that rear lower control arm?....I mean how much is really saved there?...and on such a part?...hmmmm

Edited December 18, 2013 by jrkoupe

[jgerock]

Shamelessly picked from the CCA Foundation website earlier this year - full disclosure at least (Guess I need to purchase more stuff). Just look at the quarter panel flares on # 30

 

Couldn't resist this 911 picture I found on the Porsche website

[jgerock]

Mark,

 

The car is in pretty good shape actually. It was 'restored' in the early 90's, raced twice, and then parked for 15+ years. Jim looked it over pretty well and thinks that it just needs refreshing. It does have a very small fuel tank, so that will have to be changed. Biggest challenge will be to redo the livery to UFO red & white. I already have a set of the narrow Grp. 2 flares to put on it.

 

Jager car will be sold to make room and help with $$. I'm sad about that because of all the b, s, & tears we put into it, but there are limits even to my wife's patience.

I just went back to page 3 of this thread and noticed your new additions.   Is the Luigi the same as in this picture?

 

When I grow up I want to have access to cars like you do.. .

[jrkoupe]

"When I grow up I want to have access to cars like you do.." 

 

hehe.....me too....but perhaps Id prefer his access to the  funds....Ill find the cars!...lol

 

Jim...dont get me started on early 911 vintage race pics!,....... its hard to tell, but the rear flares on 30 dont look that unusual....but its clear to me there were many more variants than I ever knew......very cool pics.

 

 

I am pretty sure, that it is the same Luigi, just earlier in their devt....Im sure Steve is 100% certain.

Edited December 19, 2013 by jrkoupe

[jrkoupe]

look  at these early Alpina flares..

 

 

 

they remind me of Pigpen's car earlier in this thread!

Edited December 19, 2013 by jrkoupe

[markmac]

Mark,

 

The car is in pretty good shape actually. It was 'restored' in the early 90's, raced twice, and then parked for 15+ years. Jim looked it over pretty well and thinks that it just needs refreshing. It does have a very small fuel tank, so that will have to be changed. Biggest challenge will be to redo the livery to UFO red & white. I already have a set of the narrow Grp. 2 flares to put on it.

 

Jager car will be sold to make room and help with $$. I'm sad about that because of all the b, s, & tears we put into it, but there are limits even to my wife's patience.

It is interesting how they fitted up all the braided hose, which unless I am wrong wasn't being used back then.  The good news of course is that Aeroquip and some of the others make some really great stuff that is as strong but still has the "look" of what would have been on there originally.  As you know, often times these cars changed literally from race to race, I have seen a number of images of a car (maybe yours or maybe another) in the UFO livery, it was running AlpinA 3 piece racing wheels.  In the event that you decide you want to invest a bigger pile of money for a set of those wheels (assuming that you possibly didn't get a set as spares in your deal), I know someone that might (maybe) have a set - at least the centers.  Let me know on that.  Good luck with the sale of the Jager car, never seen it first hand but from what I saw in pics for a clone it was done on a high level.  Keep me posted on how it goes and congrats on the find.  For some reason so many of these cars ended up in Italy.  My car was sold to an Italian, raced there for many years, changed up there etc.,  I know that there are many more in various locations there......can't completely hi-jack this post....my car running at the "ring"

 

www.alpinabmw2002.com

 

[jrkoupe]

my uncle in Europe somewhere...cool shot...he loved 02's

 

 

 

 

1971 I think....Swedish rally

 

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Edited December 20, 2013 by jrkoupe

[jrkoupe]

good morning!

 

 

the beastie TiK!!!

 

Edited December 21, 2013 by jrkoupe

[jrkoupe]

ok ok ok...1 more for me today...check out these unusual frt flares..

 

  

[jgerock]

Found these yesterday browsing the internet. Sponsor of this car was Ifm Efector.  They are still in business and my company uses lots of their capacitance and proximity switches in our equipment.

 

Here is another Porsche one for you Joel...

[jrkoupe]

Jim.....

 

 

schweet........thank you. I have 100s of P car images......cant get enough, but this thread is making me proud of our lil 02's.

 

That Alpina image is displayed in my garage...perfect image.

 

keep em coming......its about time some of the current 02 owners know the real heritage!

[jrkoupe]