1972 e9 CSi BAIKAL - Verona (IT)

[Carmine]

Hello to everyone.
My name is Carmine and I came from Verona (ITALY).
Few months ago I have rescued from a car box a 1972 CSi sitted since 1988.

Now I'm going to mechanical restore the car in order to be ready to the Italian sunny street!

Here some PICT....

Just a pleasure to be here in this comunity!

P.S.: the body number is 2263220 and the engine number the same

 

[Bravo]

Buona Fortuna Carmine, Io Riccardo da Stati Uniti, Salute!

 

[HB Chris]

Welcome, it looks nice from your photos.

 

[Markos]

Welcome Carmine!

You car looks great! Let us know what needs saving. Here is what I find interesting

• It looks like you have original factory leather seats - rare for a CSI
• It looks like you may have period correct 14” CSL Alpinas, a closeup of the lugs help
• Interesting license plate bracket that has 1973+ bmw plate lights integrated into the bracket
• The paint looks nice - is it original?

You can’t get much better than a Baikal CSI imo...

 

[dang]

Looks like a great find! Welcome!

 

[HB Chris]

Italian delivery coupes have a hinged license plate bracket as the license plate is much taller and would hide the trunk lock, requiring lights on the side of the bracket as well.

 

[Stevehose]

And nice original bmw wheel caps on those alpinas

 

[autokunst]

Beautiful car - welcome!

 

[Mot27cars]

Wayyyyy nice!

 

[CSteve]

Wayyyyy nice!

Chris, my Italian delivery 1974 CS has the license plate lights in the bumper. No sign of a hinged bracket. Would that have been changed when it was imported?

Steve

 

[Willem Tell]

Benvenuto Carmine! Beautiful car! Congratulations for saving it!

 

[Strato102]

Very nice car! Nice specification.

 

[Carmine]

Hi to everyone. In the end I have decided to do a full restoration of my car in order to check everything underneath the body.
Here some pics about the full strip down of the body before the thermal stripping and the body work.
I will then e- coat the entire body.

Have a nice day!

 

[adawil2002]

That looks great & very solid when stripped down.

 

[dang]

Start a thread in the Restoration forum and we'll follow it...

 

[Carmine]

Start a thread in the Restoration forum and we'll follow it...

I will do for sure

 

[Aussiecsi]

Italian delivery coupes have a hinged license plate bracket as the license plate is much taller and would hide the trunk lock, requiring lights on the side of the bracket as well.

...yes, took the words right out of my mouth

 

[leonine99]

Bella macchina! A very good starting point Carmine, it seems very dry.

 

[craterface]

Che Bella!