Another Stray Followed Me Home

[Wes]

A friend of mine reached out to me a while back to say they were downsizing and wanted to know if I could help re-home one of their cars. After a bit of mucking around I picked it up from the ferry a few hours ago. To make things interesting I'll post some cropped images during the day and we can see who is the first to guess what model it is.

 

[Bmachine]

Wild guess: one of the South African M535 e12?

 

[Wes]

 

[Oldbmwcoupes]

E24?

 

[Aussiecsi]

Prius ?

 

[Wes]

E24?

Nup

 

[Wes]

Prius ?

A little bit of vomit came up when I read that..

 

[Wes]

 

[HB Chris]

E12

 

[JMinPDX]

Wild guess: one of the South African M535 e12?

That’s my guess too

 

[Wes]

Here it is. Well done to those that picked it. The article and pictures are of my actual car. Production run was just over 100 with only six examples known to remain. What makes this even one even cooler is it was BMWs official press car.
Couple of other fun facts is it's the first ever 'M' Car and the only 'M' to run factory carbs.
it's also lovely to drive...

1976 BMW E12 530 MLE review

Somewhere in South Africa, a long time ago a group of people hatched the first M car

www.tradeuniquecars.com.au

 

[Jon C]

amazing car!

 

[CSteve]

Petrol filler door has an interesting location. Right next to where my Bavaria's is located. But mine drives the gas jockeys even crazier when I pull up to which ever side the pumps is empty.

Question for you Jill Claybrook fans. Is the a safe location for a Petrol flap?

 

[HB Chris]

Petrol filler door has an interesting location. Right next to where my Bavaria's is located. But mine drives the gas jockeys even crazier when I pull up to which ever side the pumps is empty.

Question for you Jill Claybrook fans. Is the a safe location for a Petrol flap?

Well, the position of the tank didn’t change but the later e12s have it on the side like a coupe.

 

[Markos]

“Stray” according to Wes …

 

[Arde]

A CKD car!
Nice!

 

[Mal CSL 3.0]

Hi Wes,
Well done picking up such an amazing car.
I wonder if it is the same one I saw at the Melbourne F1 on display.


Grs

 

[Wes]

Hi Wes,
Well done picking up such an amazing car.
I wonder if it is the same one I saw at the Melbourne F1 on display.

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Grs

That's the one. Only one in the country.

 

[Wes]

“Stray” according to @wes…
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I have high standards ok..

 

[Wobdog]

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