BMW 327/28 Coupe and BMW 327 Sports Convertible
The BMW Museum has a new temporary show called “The Line of Beauty” which celebrates BMWs big coupes and convertibles from the late-30s to today.
The earliest cars in the show are the 327/28 Coupe and 327 Convertible. The Coupe is arguably far more attractive but it’s much less brown, isn’t it?
/pic via The AutoChannel, more and better (but watermarked) photos at Dexigner
1972 BMW 3.0 CSi
I think the BMW E9-series coupes are among the loveliest cars ever built. The barely-there pillars, the restrained detailing and the wonderful silhouette mean they are among my favourite cars.
So when I saw that the Green Car Blog and the new Blue Car Blog had both recently featured an E9, I felt compelled to include one here.
The choice then, became which brown E9 to show. There is this awesome orange E9 CSL on slot-mags. This Sienna Brown ‘74 3.0 CS is very brown but has been disfigured with US-spec federalised bumpers.
After much searching I found this lovely example in what BMW called Ceylon. I urge you to click through because this car is stunning. Also, if you pay attention to the detail photos, not only will you see this car is near-flawless, you’ll also learn where E9s are frequently afflicted by rust (hint: everywhere late 60s and early 70s cars are: windscreen and window bases and surrounds, wheelwells and wheelarches and apparently doorjambs). After you’ve got over gasping at the price for which this one was sold, go and look at the Sienna Brown one and see what you get for your money.
1976 BMW 630 CS
What is the “luxury car parked on a boat ramp” photo about? I recall this exact photo from countless Australian luxury car brochures, sometimes with the car pulling an actual boat on a trailer.
Is it a lifestyle thing? You’re the sort of person who would drop some of their hard-earned on a top-of-the-line luxo-barge (or at least have your company lease one for you) so you’d obviously enjoy a spot of yachting.
Seriously. Here’s the brown, sorry, Karneolrot, 630 on a dock. And again (nice hat, Hans!). And again.
The only way this could be any more crashingly unsubtle is if they showed the 6-series, oh, I dunno, on a polo field.
(pics via the amazing archive of 6-series photos at Sharknose.de)
1979 BMW E21 323i
If I’m interpreting the google translation correctly, this E21 was originally delivered to a factory employee before finding its way to Marko Kaiser. The car was in amazing condition, requiring only a few chome trim pieces to be returned to the state shown. Kaiser added the Alpine front spoiler and BBS 3-piece wheels.
BMW calls this colour “Karneolrot” which is apparently the German name for the mineral Carnelian.
I don’t know why everyone is mad for the E30 when the E21 is so pretty.
Rost, der braune Tod zahlloser E21, hatte dank der trockenen Garage nicht den Hauch einer Chance (Rust, the brown death of countless E21s didn’t stand a chance as this car was stored in a dry garage.)
That’ll be it, then.
(pic via Youngertimer Scene’s great feature on this car Die wilden Siebziger (The Wild Seventies))
