1972 BMW 3.0 CSL E9 Auction

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Huuuge project.

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1972 BMW 3.0 CSL E9 For Sale by Auction

Purchased in Kesgrave, Ipswich in October 1977 thi...
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tferrer said:
You'll need a broom to collect this car. The owner was an avid car enthusiast and collector? I highly doubt that if he let a lovely csl sit outside for 30 plus years...
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lots of rust that will be very hard to bring it back to the life it will take long time and lots of money and need crafts man and it is the right hand drive it will be limited customer
 
Current bidding seems to have stalled. I expect a flurry towards the end though. This car will be brought back from the dead, although it won't be cheap. RHD is quite popular here in the UK and Channel Islands, Ireland, Isle of Man, Malta, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tokelau Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Anguilla, Antigua, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, Saint Vincent, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
 
Read the description. The "avid owner" died years ago. His widow, no criticism here at all, let this car and it appears the rest of his collection sit out side for well over a decade.
I suspect she turned down multiple offers over the years, perhaps for sentimental reasons. No criticism here either.

The description of the vehicle is brutally honest and, reading between the lines, offers a sad lesson in what happens to a car when it is the subject of unintended neglect.
The writeup is classic British understatement. Not criticism intended here. Sad, sad.

Well worth a read.
 
Rek said:
Current bidding seems to have stalled. I expect a flurry towards the end though. This car will be brought back from the dead, although it won't be cheap. RHD is quite popular here in the UK and Channel Islands, Ireland, Isle of Man, Malta, Cyprus, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, East Timor, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Japan, Macao, Malaysia, Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Australia, Christmas Island, Cocos Islands, Cook Islands, Fiji, Kiribati, Nauru, New Zealand, Niue, Norfolk Island, Papua New Guinea, Pitcairn Islands, Solomon Islands, Samoa, Tokelau Islands, Tonga, Tuvalu, Botswana, Eswatini, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, St Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Anguilla, Antigua, The Bahamas, Barbados, Bermuda, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Dominica, Falkland Islands, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Montserrat, St Kitts-Nevis, St Lucia, Saint Vincent, Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Turks and Caicos Islands, Virgin Islands (U.S.)
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I am afraid you are missing Gibraltar.
I am even more afraid Hong-Kong will be LHD as the "one-country two sides of the road" China policy is unceremoniously aborted...
 
Sitting at £10,250 as I type.

I must admit it has a “siren” call but as it needs every panel you can buy and plenty more that you might, if lucky, be able to source given sufficient time and money, I’d suspect its more likely to be a donor for another shell.
 
I'm trying to think what is left of the valuable csl bits outside of the aluminum parts on this car. The VIN plate, and alum parts (and the boot lid is badly tweaked) are there but the black headliner, seats and thin body panels are all gone. Non matching engine... Maybe the rear-end could be something. Steering wheel is gone.. I mean what are you really buying. It just seems soooo far gone.
 
Wheels were said to be original too -- auction is still ticking.....now at 17£ :oops:
 
£21 -- This will end up in the hands of a shop I presume.....Many close eyes on CSL's of late me thinks..... o_O
 
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maybe the papers/chassis # is worth that ? transfer it to a decent 50k CS/CSi and you have what ? a 150k CSL ? :D
 
That is much harder to do with things like the internet. This was purchased in a public auction and unless it gets a highly documented restoration by someone in the know, it will always be a Vin swapped CSL. This has been going on as long as classic cars have been "a thing"...Doesn't make it right but it's the reality of it.
 
I know that for a fact BMW tries to prosecute if you do a 'fake' -- to lie would be unacceptable but even if you documented a switch I don't think many people would like it -- Goes against the establishment to try and change vins.....

On another note there is a (pretty cool) company in Germany that focuses on detecting authenticity.....they have a toolbox full of 'forensic' tools that tells you the truth --
 
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