More E9 related videos?

[MMercury]

Some of these videos have been available for sometime and even referenced on this board. Quality varies. Apologies, if you have seen these before.

Brian Redman shares thoughts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFXUAd0oJM0&feature=related

Frank Stella's artwork: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wF04Niqt024&NR=1&feature=fvwp

Fleeting glimpse of very nice Golf E9: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tFrROdrByhk

Thirty years of racing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNaelY4QHlo

Snetterton 2009: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ga8xe35YCSY

Neal Hefti? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9TBb-BnKCn8

Speaks for itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWUR7cTOVKw

? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ntRXa6Jsn3E

Why would someone do this?:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofjNaRJWjxU

Black Stallion?: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONg8Wzr1lws

Shade trees from down under may find this of some interest,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQ3oxBrgUd0
oldie but goodie: (Would like to see better version though): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NUnYwBA3EMU&NR=1

Rune Tobaisson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fsZ7uK7_7b0

Nice throttle action: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2U2yNLhUrM

Its 3,5 csl schnitzer time: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvu7baC_diE


E21, not an E9. But it bears some relationship to one and is better video quality than most:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeYn1SqKBhc

 

[Bert-Ola]

Here's one from this summer when I had Rune Tobiassons CSL i the dyno.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgcUIqgRRY&NR=1

Very nice car, 410 hp at 8000 rpm.

 

[MMercury]

Here's one from this summer when I had Rune Tobiassons CSL i the dyno. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGgcUIqgRRY&NR=1 Very nice car, 410 hp at 8000 rpm.

Another one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF8nzAvRSW4

The links were grabbed random and in no particular order. The link to Rune's video was inadvertently buried.

I am not familiar with this driver or his vehicle/s. Perhaps you could provide some background for the video, the driver, and of course, the car he is driving.

Lastly, would you happen to know the circumstances involved in the first picture? The car looks too clean for a car wash. Is this a reminder to occasionally check cooling hoses, or is Rune trying to deter the competition? :-?



Thanks.

 

[Bert-Ola]

I am not familiar with this driver or his vehicle/s. Perhaps you could provide some background for the video, the driver, and of course, the car he is driving.

The video are from a TV-program and the reporter Peter Sundfeldt says he is the only person except the Royal Swedish King and Rune Tobiasson who has been driving this car. The newspaper in the beginning of the video shows when our King spun of the racetrack during a rainy testlap.

Short version.
This car are a legend here in Sweden.
Rune "Tobias" Tobiasson won the Swedish championship with this car back in 1975.
The year after he sold the CSL to the owners of the Swedish BMW importer "Söderströmgruppen".
In 2001 he asked them if he could buy back the racecar, but got an no. Instead he was promised to use the car as much as he wanted.
During the winter 2001-2002 Tobias and friends restored it and started in historic racing again.

Quote from Tobias
Förenade Bil (Swedish BMW importer) helped me with the purchase and autumn of 1972 I went down to Munich to collect the car. Since CSL was so special, it was a small ceremony when the car was handed over, everything was done in a VIP room. From there I drove home and went directly to Kville Engine Workshop where the car was torn down.

A couple of pictures of the car from this summer along my friends E28 tribute to CSL.

 

[jranmann]

How's the SAAB-KOENIGSEGG acquisition going Bert as I'm keen on a 93X in LHD...

Note on the Swedish Air Force:

There's the guy Jeff I work with, real smart guy. Has a past, though. One of the things he told me about from his college was too strange not to share. He told me this story after I told him were my relatives lived.

He and his friends declared war on Sweden.

No, really. It started when one of his friends wanted to start a Scrabble group, and I forgot what the name was, but the initials were SAAB. So he tried to register saab.com, only to find it was taken! By a Swedish car manufacturer, even! Well, he got mad, and while slightly drunk, declared war on Sweden. He wrote this letter, formally declaring war on Sweden, and sent it to the Swedish Embassy, The King of Sweden, and SAAB headquarters in Sweden. The letter outlined their rage at the name SAAB being stolen, and said that they would get their Navy, which consisted of three college guys and a canoe, row to Sweden (which they anticipated would take a few months), and attack in one of Stockholm's harbors after they had a bite to eat.

A few months later, they got a box from Sweden. It was from the SAAB headquarters, and it had a letter of its own. SAAB said that they were sorry the name had been taken, and hoped the package arrived before their Navy departed. The explained that SAAB didn't just make cars, but engines for military aircraft, and hoped that their contribution of an air force to their Navy war on Sweden would be taken as a formal apology.

The package contained about 100 of those "ready-to-assemble" balsa wood kits of rubber-band driven airplanes. With the SAAB logo, of course.

That is really cool! I am glad to say the people at SAAB have a good sense of humor.

On a more personal note:

Please excuse my Sorry And Awful Boring posting regarding those magnificent snow machines
and any reference to how dreadfully out of control my e24 feels in that environ...

Cheers!

Ran

 

[shanon]

Neat story on the Tobias car.
Now I know the skinnie on my FLY CSL slot car, I hear it is fast too....

;-)
-shanon