I've finally come across the photos I've archived that were saved from the web of the remaining stainless steel 2800CS. Three were built, one crashed, one was sold and is unknown, this one is rests in the Deutsches Museum.
I'm posting them here in the photos section so they might be easier to find. Click on the thumbnails for bigger versions.
I included the 1937 Ford Model 68 Deluxe, 1 of 6 built, for comparison. BMW wasn't the first to try a stainless steel body.
Translation of the display notes;
In 1969, three test vehicles of the type 2800 CS with stainless steel bodies were built on behalf of BMW. The bodies were built at Karmann in Rheine, in close cooperation with Deutsche Edelstahlwerke (DEW), later part of Thyssen. The material used was Remanit, a standardized, stainless steel. With this project, BMW wanted to demonstrate that the stainless steel used could be processed with conventional tools and also proved its worth in combination with normal steel parts.
We would like to thank J. Kanehl/A. Bödigheimer for the kind loan.
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