1974 CS-CSi FS on Hemmings

At first glance this looks pretty sweet! Will be very interesting to see what it will fetch in todays market!
 
really curious why somebody would put a b35 head on a b34 engine. they are saying its 10:1 ... but was that before or after they put the b35 head on it as we all know the b35 head will drop the compression of the b34 engine.

this car was last on BaT in dec 2021 by Mark Starr and sold for 166.5k. in 2018 it was sold by seattlecoupe74 on BaT for 125k. i show it was owned by Scott Highland in Kent, WA in 2011. since we know that Paul Burke hasn't made cams for a while, we can only assume that the engine build is close to 10 years old
 
It does look like a really nice coupe. The photos don't show good definition of the style lines along the sides. Hope that means poor photography rather than lots of body filler.
 
mkent said:
It does look like a really nice coupe. The photos don't show good definition of the style lines along the sides. Hope that means poor photography rather than lots of body filler.
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in the half car pictures, you can see the style lines much better. but they aren't as sharp as they should be ... so whoever filled / sanded the car wasn't that attentive.
 
From my old records....

BMW 3.0 CS Automatic US # 4335378 was manufactured on September 26, 1974 and
delivered on October 10, 1974 to the American BMW importer Max Hoffman Motor
Corp. in New York City.

The original colour was Granat red metallic, paintcode 025.

Yours sincerely,

Kai Jacobsen

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I used to own this one back in the day. It was repainted once before I got it (much better than how it looks today) and still had a dead stock original interior in it and ZERO rust. Came out of Burlingame, California with receipts dating back to 1986 I think. It still had the automatic in it and diving board bumpers.

I sold it to Scott Highland in 2011, who owns Smith Brothers Farms in the Seattle area, who dumped the bumpers and started the resto-mod. This is the one that got away from me, never should have let it go as it was such a clean well maintained original when I had it! I did replace the steering wheel with a SUPER clean 1974 wheel and rebuilt the carbs, but man, it would just run all day long even with the three speed. Yes, I know it's a '74 with the bumpers and the steering wheel and the automatic, but trust me, this one was not really a resto mod candidate when I had it. You all don't want to know how little I sold it for in 2011 and I am still kicking myself for doing so, but you cannot go back.

@Markos, please pick up the white courtesy telephone for the rest of the story....
 
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back in 2010 / 2011, many coupes were selling for 15k to 25k ... i remember a gorgeous ceylon coupe that Matt Hoffman bought ... i think for around 40k
 
I wouldn't call this a resto mod. The mods are all bolt in and the car isn't by any means a modern car hidden in an older body. The performance and driving experience are pretty much what you would expect if you took the car to Alpina or Schnitzer back in the day and told them to make it more sporting. The engine is mostly factory parts with the exception of the cam and pistons and injection system and the suspension mods are all pretty much what was done back in the day too. BMW hung onto the 4 speed in th E9 for a lot longer than they should have. They really should have had a 5 speed OD transmission in the mid-70's. To me a resto mod is where you put in an S52 or other much more modern 4 valve engine (or a V8 or 12), add rack and pinon steering and huge Brembo brakes and maybe the rear suspension of something much newer. While those mods make it drive and ride and accelerate like a modern car they destroy the feel and character of the car and rip out its soul. I think of these mods as adding value and enhancing the driving experience. It is a shame that he started with a super nice matching numbers car and threw that away, but to some folks money isn't the issue and I get it that the builder wanted to start with a super nice no rust car to make his life easy and not deal with a rotisserie rebuild of the body. I don't think an E9 short of a CSL is going to bring $150k in this market no matter how nice, but I don't see this as an $85k car either. JMHO and qualified as such.
 
Here’s my two cents.

In my view, the truth is that the peak of popularity for the classic E9 has passed...
Nowadays, very few people are interested in buying an E9 CS or CSi in factory specification.
The market has long since been saturated with factory-spec examples.
Currently, modified examples command higher sale prices.
And, in my opinion, this trend is here to stay for a long time.
If given the choice between an absolutely perfect, pristine E9—complete with gold-zinc plated bolts and factory-original specs (four-speed gearbox, standard suspension, and stock engine)—and one featuring a five-speed transmission, a KW suspension, and an M-spec engine built on an M30 block, most would definitely choose the "resto-spec" over the factory-original.
And they would be willing to pay significantly more for it than for a car in factory specification.
Ultimately, the future of the E9 market will depend precisely on these "resto-spec" builds.
 
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