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Price is $155,000
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Surely one of the most evocative shapes to emerge from the 1970s racing scene was the BMW “Batmobile” CSL, a car that has gone on to be a legend.
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In the early 1970s, BMW CSLs dominated saloon car racing in Europe. First of all, they beat out the English/German Ford Capris in Europe from 1972-1975, and then came to America in 1976 to win the Daytona 24 Hours (Peter Gregg, Brian Redman, John Fitzpatrick), and race in the IMSA Camel GT series, taking Talladega in August plus five 2nds and three 3rds (Peter Gregg, again).
The basis of these lightweight CSL “Batmobiles” was the 1972 BMW CS couple. Although some 200 lightweight were built, in order to homologate the car, only twenty-three cars were true, factory built racers. They were fitted with BMW’s great sounding six cylinder inline engine, fitted with Kugelfischer fuel injection and had engines displacing from 3.0 to 3.5 liters. Some were kept by the factory and some sold to BMW’s favored racing teams, such as Alpina, Schnitzer and Rudizer Falz.
The car that we offer here was originally a 1973 CSL (it still has it’s rubber-tipped “tail feathers”) that was converted in Germany by Alpina (the badge showing number “046” is still on the dashboard) in 1973 and was then raced from 1974 on in Group 4 specification. At some time (probably in the early 1980s), the CSL was imported into American and sold to an owner in California. On his death, it passed (via an Estate sale) to the last owner who raced it for about twenty years. It has the two-valve 3.5 liter engine, now on Weber carburetors and the correct Getrag gearbox and is running and driving well.
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