E 9's Handsome Father

[starcruiser]

Here is link from Bring a Trailer, https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1...e=dm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-03-29

showing a beautiful BMW 503 Coupe for sale. Very nice!! You can see the similar body lines and glass that continued in the design, especially the profile.

 

[dave v. in nc]

My long-ago, late design boss used to refer to the "economy of line"....well spoken here. Nothing more beautiful than, or more difficult to achieve than the pure simplicity found here. I'm sure that there were a lot of eraser shavings on the floor initially...

 

[Koopman]

My friend has the exact car in the same color. Very nice to sit in it, but no ride yet.

 

[zinz]

What an incredible car…wow.

Definitely some family resemblance

Ed Z

 

[Honolulu]

Hydraulic windows? Well what do I know.

 

[starcruiser]

Handsome Dad, fetched a handsome price, $270,000.00 !!!!

https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1957-bmw-503-coupe-with-sunroof/?utm_source=dm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2023-04-10

 

[deQuincey]

it is very curious how beautiful is the 503 in the side view

but how bad this car was shaped in the front view, the front design is not in the same line as the rest of the car, a pity, same can be said for the 3200CS, front view is not as well designed as the rest

yesterday i saw an advert from the houtcamp collection of a lancia zagato that somehow remember me of this italian style of the bmws of the 50-ties; but Zagato made superb front look of this coupe