1968 BMW-Glas 3000 V8
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'68 BMW - Glas 3000 on BaT
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Rey Rivera picked one up this past August at an auction during Car Week, his is red and it is stunning in person, I love the gauges.
good for Rey ... pretty cool cars for 1968. never seen one in person. yep, the gauges / dash are really cool
This is the Red one Rey Rivera purchased at auction, August 2022
Chris Wider in the Boston area owns a Silver one he's had for years, featured in The BMW Classic CCA Ultimate Classic Magazine.
Watching the Ceylon on BaT with keen interest
Chris Wider in the Boston area owns a Silver one he's had for years, featured in The BMW Classic CCA Ultimate Classic Magazine.
Watching the Ceylon on BaT with keen interest
this red one is beautiful. i like this one a lot more than the olive green one on BaT.
Awesome, just awesome.
I would not have picked olive green over blue as my first choice. 
Also interesting is 5500rpm redline.
Chris's was the first I have seen in person. I was at the BMW Classic event in Pennsylvania (great event by the way). His is in the center.
Are Glas parts pretty hard to find?
I suspect by a factor of 10 over coupe parts.
There is a Glas Club is based in Germany which publishes a magazine & website. There is a worldwide wealth of knowledge. Some parts are available though not in great quantities.
Glas & BMW GT Glas variants have a fairly small following in the States as not many were sold through most likely Max Hoffmann. Hoffmann, over his career of importing, represented something like 83 different automobile manufacturers with varying degrees of success. BMW being the most successful. Max’s exit deal with BMW AG & NA paid him for every BMW produced until 1988, according to Jackie Jouret’s research of the BMW archive in Germany.
I toured the former Glas/Gogomobile factory in Dingolfing 20 years ago....except E39s were being made then. Dingolfing is a town of about 20,000 and over an hour on the Autobahn from Munich. I wonder where they get/got their workforce?
Very cool car. Description says It was originally Chamonix. Somebody thought it was a good idea to change the color to olive green metallic but leave the interior blue. A change to black or tan interior would look much better IMHO.
I don’t think Hoffman sold Glas cars.