CSL Bonnet

[Quattmann]

Hi, bit of a long shot. Anybody know where I can get aluminium bonnet for my csl please.

 

[lee davis]

hello

if its nay help BMW have at the Moment stopped producing the aluminium
bonnet but are looking into Re-production.
As an alternative they offer the Steel one instead which is available.

Kind Regards
[email protected]

 

[Orangener]

The only one I know who can possibly have one is Werner Hand....

Try to contact him , here´s his HP : http://www.hand-csl.com/

 

[Quattmann]

Thanks for your responses. My car already has a steel bonnet for reasons I don't know before I bought it. Of course anyone who knows anything about csl notices this immediately. Meanwhile I have sent message to German site that was mentioned.

 

[Quattmann]

Hello, just bouncing this, 8 months on. Still need this bonnet if anyone can help please.
Ta.

 

[CSL 1973]

CSL-bonnet

PM sent to you.

Cheers
Henric

 

[dp]

My car already has a steel bonnet for reasons I don't know before I bought it. Of course anyone who knows anything about csl notices this immediately.

Dent-free?

 

[Quattmann]

Ally bonnet

Hello, just giving this a bounce for ally bonnet. Please don't raise my hopes by PMing asking for details for registers, I'll put it on an official register for all to see when I've finished the renovation. Thanks.

 

[Quattmann]

Just another bounce on my bonnet (not a good idea if it's ally!).

 

[Gerrit]

Aluminium bonnet

you have a PM,Gerrit

 

[JFENG]

Alloy bonnet

A good panel beater should be able to make you one from scratch. Perhaps you should make a few more for sale?

John

 

[Quattmann]

Perhaps!

 

[JFENG]

Not perhaps .. Certainly.

If they can make SLR , TR, and C/D type bodies ... I think they can make an E9 hood.

 

[RonP]

I have one, but it needs a lot of work. It was stripped by the previous owner and was warped. A skilled craftsman can surely fix it, but emphasis on "Skilled".

 

[jfornarola]

I am on the lookout for one as well.

Regards,

John

 

[30csl]

I doubt a panel beater would be able to recreate the underside of the bonnet easily?

 

[execmalibu]

RonP is that the hood from over at John Espositos Body Shop/

Is that the warped hood the same one that was at Johns shops?

 

[JFENG]

yeah, I'm probably full a bull...

I doubt a panel beater would be able to recreate the underside of the bonnet easily?

The local guys who make entire cars fron scratch (repkicas and custom designs) probably order the bodies from some sweatshop in Mexico...

 

[RonP]

I don't know what John you are talking about, but it is a warped CSL hood.

 

[JFENG]

Recreating a CSL hood

I was at a friends shop this morning killing some time. I asked him if he could recreate a CSL hood to trunk, including the frame. We looked at some pictures of bent and cracked CSL hoods/trunklids and he said, "sure, it's just time and materials."

As a point of comparison, he did a complete trunk recreation which cost over $6k for the metalwork. This type of shop probably doesn't think in terms of easy or not, as they do things until they're done right ... however long it takes.

He showed me other pictures of other bonnet/boot lids he's made from scratch (alloy and steel), some of which included fabricating the underside framework.

Ron, I'm sure there are many such guys in SoCal who could fix or replicate any CSL panel you so desired. I believe there are guys like this in every part of the country. They aren't that hard to find. Just get the list of PB winning cars (BIC or BOS) and find out which shops did the panel work on those cars.

John