#58 IMSA CSL

a little......

Owned and run by the San Francisco BMW dealership. Not sure if it was/is a real factory racer, a real 'L', or just a very nice Grp5 reproduction. Believe it is using a very developed FI twin cam motor that has been 'slanted'. Told it runs low 1:40s at Laguna..........that's pretty good.

My brother's 'privateer' 73 CS coupe (pretty light for a coupe at 2600lbs) runs a very stroked, tri carb'd 3.5L M30 (about 275 RWHP) on 16" Alps w/ Kuhmos. He pulls high 1:40s....w/ a lot of local knowledge. We think we've just about max'd it out w/out going to huge meats/box flares, door skins, wings and a built twin cam lump. We might be able to find a few more seconds if we try the Hoosiers (so we hear...)

Overall, I'm told its a real neat car.
-shanon
 
Isn't this Rug Cunningham's old car, which I believe he got from Vasek Polak's estate?
 
If Vasel Pollack/Rug Cunningham racing CSL--YES

It's the real thing--

25 or so years ago Vasek of Vasek-Pollack BMW had one of the finest collections of racing BMWs in the US--used to drop by there from time to time to search out hard to find parts from their parts guy--a real whiz for early stuff.

As many of you know Rug Cunningham was one of the best friends to all of our BMW family here in the West--unfortunately he died much too young of a heart attack--we used to see him as a regular at the antique and historics at Laguna Seca--always welcomed fellow BMW enthusiasts to his pit @ Launa Seca--a great and unexpected loss to all at a much too young age.
 
Re: If Vasel Pollack/Rug Cunningham racing CSL--YES

blumax said:
It's the real thing--

25 or so years ago Vasek of Vasek-Pollack BMW had one of the finest collections of racing BMWs in the US--used to drop by there from time to time to search out hard to find parts from their parts guy--a real whiz for early stuff.

As many of you know Rug Cunningham was one of the best friends to all of our BMW family here in the West--unfortunately he died much too young of a heart attack--we used to see him as a regular at the antique and historics at Laguna Seca--always welcomed fellow BMW enthusiasts to his pit @ Launa Seca--a great and unexpected loss to all at a much too young age.
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They must have given that car a total repaint. Here is the original scheme:

http://www.cunninghambmw.com/4_full.html
 
Different Car?

It was built in Bill Watson's Road Rockets shop at Infineon, possibly wore #58 back in the day and is probably not the Cunningham car. As Shanon stated, the engine is developed well beyond "period correct" as that is his specialty, and runs with Porsche 935's at vintage events. Watson has also built some powerful M10 and M30 units for street BMW's.

No luck with racing history - BMW raced 3 CSL's in IMSA in 1975 and 1976, could it be one of them? Peter Gregg raced one in 1976 with his standard #59 and won the 24 Hours of Daytona, possibly this was the second team car. It is listed as #2275987 in an ad for Road Rockets - anybody know the history?
 
History update

The CS registry lists a possible 21 factory racing CSL's, starting with #2276000 numbered downwards, so #2275987 is the 14th one built. Anyone in Europe know of this car?
 
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