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In The Beginning: 3 piece wheels


Flunder

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This is the first iteration and pre dates the famous modular BBS wheel as often seen on the 2002 race cars fielded by ALPINA and BMW Motorsports. This model bears no BBS or other manufacturer stamping nor does bear the usual E30 stamping on the.basket. However it does use the same barrels as the model E30 shown in the wheels section. When purchased these were built to 8x13  front and 9x13 Rear. However an example is pictured below made up as a 7". 

 

The famous ALPINA publicity photo of the factory's number 11 racing 02 is pictured with this model wheel - except with the baskets painted black and fitted with chrome center caps bearing the familiar ALPINA roundel.

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I have to say, I do not know much about the history of these Albert centers, but these are one of the first 3 piece wheels, if you do some research on photos of the BMW race history. I believe they came on the market in 69, also possible 68. Difficult to say. The next 3piece wheels could be the Alpinas.....I do not find the papers at the moment, but I believe 69 and in 1972 came the BBS E30. Maybe BBS bought the production know how of Albert or maybe they did only a similar design, maybe the Albert production is Ronal as Alpina could be possible. Maybe someone did that research, it would be interesting.

Cheers W.

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Thank you for sharing your knowledge on these Albert center wheels.

 

This is the famous publicity photo af a Buchloe Bomber that the first post refers to.

 

I think it is a safe assumption that the Albert 3 piece wheel pre dates the. ALPINA  Trisectional rennfelgen.

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I have also the 71 Hack edition. There is one or two really important pics in it. For group2 period g2 (group2 1970-1971) appendix k racers, the pic with the aluminium ATE front caliper and the adjustable sway bar. This pic was really important for me at the beginning of historic motorracing with the 2002.

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WHS.DE

 

I had never heard the story behind these wheels and even though I have been going through Gert Hack's book for 40 years have never seen any reference therein to Albert.

 

Thanks again; I learned something new today.

 

Here they are again on an ALPINA 2002ti circa 1969/70.

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Ask Andy Andexer, the german cabrio restauration guru, he owned or maybe still owns an Alpina racecar with the Alberts!

If you google andexer and alpina you will find pics of the car with that wheels. The green one with that particular orange front.

But now I remember, the wheels called also Limmer. Maybe Limmer was the manufacturer and Albert the design or the reseller... somerhing like that. The name is well known, but never did any research about that history.

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46 minutes ago, whs.de said:

 the pic with the aluminium ATE front caliper and the adjustable sway bar.

W

 

Do you happen to know if the aluminum ATE caliper to which you refer is the same part as used on the early 911S? The 911S strut has 3 1/2" bolt spacing to accommodate the aluminum caliper.

 

And here is the turf green 1600ti with the Albert/Limmer wheels. What a great looking car

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