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5 minutes ago, popovm said:

Man, that seems low for the 60s. Didn’t realized they slammed them like that back then. 

I think it's shot in a high speed curve.

Racing is Life - everything before and after is just waiting!

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5 hours ago, Flunder said:

…talk about magazine editors using stock press photos to plump up their stories, it strikes me now that the interior shot of KF - N 7 and that of KF 0425 in AMuS are one in the same. 

KF 0425 is a temporary or "dealer Plate" so that plate could have been on any car for any testdrive - if these were color pics the lettering would be red. 

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@66m10

Thanks for posting that wonderful image of the Alpina 16oo testwagen  with the now familiar dealer plate, as @uai points out above, number KF-0425.

Great photo!

The smiling driver keeps his hands at 9 and 3 and is getting the tyres, chassis  and throttle to really work all together as he hits his ideal spot for a late apex for top exit speed.

No wonder the pilot is smiling so confidently. 

The sidewall deflection from the cornering forces tells the story.

@66m10 do you have more images of early Alpina 1600-2 or articles to post?

 

IMG_3039.thumb.jpeg.048cfa1e00ea98eb80f4d2c08abe323d.jpegNote that the Alpina center cap still wears the first version of the red/blue Alpina shield with a rendition of a camshaft in the blue field.

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Of the old Alpina 1600s to wear the Kaufbeuren number plates I really like KF-N 999 - used as press car, loaned to Stirling Moss in May 67 for him to drive while visiting Nuerburgring for the Scuderia Hanseat - it appears that it was the car Gert Hack drove for the Martha rally as well. Possibly more than one car may have worn the plate, as there are photos of it with some really serious damage to when someone (not Stirling) wrecked it at Nuerburgring.

 

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I have an eBay search set up to alert me when '67 Texas license plates are for sale - sooner or later I'll find one with "KF" as the first letters that I can use as the plate for my car under the "Year of Manufacture" registration rules. 

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Koboldtopf - '67 1600-2

Einhorn - '74 tii

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Thanks Barrett. Although I’ve been poring over Gert Hack’s book for many years I did not know just how close and enduring a relationship he enjoyed with Alpina.

A look at the Alpina team entries  for its early 1600-2 cars on Racing Sports Car shows that Gerd (sp) Hack was paired with another team driver, Rene Herzog, for an entry at Grand Prix Brno in 1970. 
Their entry was an orange/black 1600 with the KF - SC 7 number plate finishing 5th but 1st in Div 2.

 

And KF- SC 7 is the same plate as worn by the Alpina 1600 car on the cover of Gert Hack’s tuning book,

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22 hours ago, bob02 said:

Wish Koni kept the adjustment knob for the rear shocks! Not a fan of the current adjustment procedure!

 

  Bob

The adjuster is locked up on one of these, which I suspect is why they were taken off the car. Thankfully Koni says they can rebuild them (and actually make them better than new given the improvements in the seal materials). These are two way adjustable, my understanding that the other adjustment is done with the shock rod, so it may be that these still implement the adjustment procedure that you don't care for.

 

These are an interesting set - through my brother I had the contact information to the North American product manager for Koni. I sent him pictures, including some that showed the date codes and model information, asking if there was anything that can be done to rebuild them. His response was interesting - "here's my cell number, call me at your convenience, or please send me your number and a good time to call" ! I was surprised and curious - on calling him he tells me that he's seen 5 sets of these shocks in his time at Koni, and always only on really neat cars. Based on the date codes this set was really early and may have been special made for Alpina as they really weren't a product yet.

 

The last set he'd seen was on one of the few (81) early Porsche 901s (Peugeot had a quasi trademark on three number model numbering with 0 as the 2nd number, they objected to Porsche using 901, so it was changed to 911), that car somehow escaped into the hands of a privateer who campaigned it rally racing. A later owner fought a long battle against the Porsche community at large, finally prevailed in getting them to accept that the car was a legitimate early Porsche and not the product of someone's basement fevered machinations. 

 

Based on this Alpina promotional picture they also had adjustable front struts as well, but I've not come across anyone who has seen them.

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4 hours ago, BarrettN said:

Based on this Alpina promotional picture they also had adjustable front struts as well, but I've not come across anyone who has seen them.

I've seen them once but they were unfortunately not for sale

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