Was there a rally CS.....??

That is cool.

Amazing what's out there.... that site has some other cool cars listed too. Check out the Trabants- I have fond memories of recently free'd East Germans excitely overtaking on the downhills of the Autobahn in their Trabants and Wartburgs when I was there right after the fall of the Eastern Bloc. We would even slow down just to see their delight in passing someone, anyone as they smoked on by.

http://www.slowlysideways.com/englisch/members/Trabant/Trabant 601 RS.html
 
shanon said:
yep....... there were two factory cars! :shock:

http://www.slowlysideways.com/englisch/members/BMW 2800 CS/BMW 2800_engl.html

Anyone have additional pics or more info on these two cars?
Anyone know where they are now?

-shanon
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Thank you for sharing this website link.

I think in 1974 there was a 3.0 CSL at a french rally. It wasn't a factory rally car. In Germany also some 2800 Cs, and 3.0 CS raced as well: http://www.ac-syke.de/Historie/Olymparallye72.htm

So it is clear that several E9 raced at rallies in the 70's.

About these cars: if those 2 cars were made by the BMW factory (Motorsport department ?), then i would be the most interesting part of the E9 story.

But: i think that something is not correct with this story. What we know so far, that the first E9 based factory race product was the 3.0 CSL Bat in 1973, which raced at European Touring Car championship. Before that (1969 - 1972) only the tuners (Alpina, Schnitzer, and Koepchen, and various french racing teams) represented the E9 (2800 CS) at the touring car races in Europe or hillclimb races in Germany (Schnitzer 2800 CS). So if the BMW policy was : "leave the racing for the tuners", then why would BMW create a rally car based on the 2800 CS in 1972? It simply won't fit into the E9 history.

Of course BMW Motorsport made factory rally cars, but those were BMW 2002 cars, driven by varous drivers, like Jean Todt. It was in 1973 or in 1974. That car had white color with some motorsport colors.

This CS has Blue / White color, which is 1, not official Motorsport color (Motorsport deparment started in 1972 !), and 2, the color of this car is used at a Koepchen tuned cars (2002 / 2800 CS).
Althought blue / white paint can be seen on several race / rally BMW car in 1972.
 
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