Le Mans E9 CSL - automotive porn

[frogisland]

First post (although i had to reactivate my account probably for none use)

Spent the day on track at Silverstone at the weekend running in/testing a race car (at a UK trackday)

Guess what else was there.....

A 1972 3.5 CSL ex Le Mans, which is also entered into the Le Mans Classic this summer (Nick Whale/Ian Guest). Didn't really have the opportunity to speak to the owner/driver (he has two CSL's!), but a friend of mine took lots of photos - just a selection:

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Some more images on track at:

http://www.fresh-orange.co.uk/

Go to 'Gold Track - Silverstone - 28 April 2008' and 'BMW 88'

Enjoy

JP

 

[Malc]

SERIOUS Car Porn :lol:
Now where is all the money that rich maiden aunt that I don't know left me???

 

[feri]

frogisland:


Thank you, excellent pictures!

Btw I think this car is a 1974 Le Mans 3.0 CSL.

 

[frogisland]

from the birds mouth....'72 3.5, also bottom of the entrants list for July's Le Mans Classic

http://www.lemansclassic.com/2008/uk/surLaPiste_listeEngages.html

Age/history, there is always the chance that it has been re-bodied/re-engined?

JP

 

[David]

Wow.

Love how the beltline trim is bent over the front fender flares.

 

[dave v. in nc]

duh,duh,duh, wow....

As Dudley Moore said in the movie "Arthur" (actually referring to being very rich), "It doesn't suck." And a very quiet wow. Look forward to pictures with many dead bugs on the front. Dave V. in NC, USA

 

[Honolulu]

Revoltingly,

disgustingly, impossibly clean.

I want it.

And yeah, bending the beltline trim over the fender flares is far too much effort to put into a race car... or is it? Onboard air shocks too? Sheesh.

 

[Malc]

Anybody notice how the rear shock mounting towers have been extended up to the parcel shelf, well I think they have, 3rd picture

I saw that done on a 2002 race car where the original separate spring and shock absorber had been replaced with a coil over unit. Neat but a lot of work
Malc