.....where they all come from.

The second picture is a mirror image, the exhausts are on the wrong side. Once you invert that picture it matches exactly with the first picture just viewed from the opposite side. The yellow car that is up on the lift on the first picture is already finished and parked in the second picture. So there was actual work going on at that plant, not just parked cars.
 
The second picture is a mirror image, the exhausts are on the wrong side. Once you invert that picture it matches exactly with the first picture just viewed from the opposite side. The yellow car that is up on the lift on the first picture is already finished and parked in the second picture. So there was actual work going on at that plant, not just parked cars.
 
These photos are really cool!
Note on the black and white one, two cars on the same line, with different driver's side mirror placement. That confirms it: There really was no rhyme or reason- just whatever Hans felt like at the time.

The color photos are clearly the same day, but not mirror images. Note the cars are lined up in one, but not the other.

In any event, hank you very much for sharing.
 
These photos are really cool!
Note on the black and white one, two cars on the same line, with different driver's side mirror placement. That confirms it: There really was no rhyme or reason- just whatever Hans felt like at the time.

The color photos are clearly the same day, but not mirror images. Note the cars are lined up in one, but not the other.

In any event, hank you very much for sharing.
 
the CS Concept car is actually the best von Hooydonk/Bangle design to come out of BMW in a long time (save for maybe the new Z4).

Am I correct they decided to not go forward with production? If true, it's a shame as it would have killed the Panamera in the market segment.

Oh well, so much for lost opportunity. Time to go back to the garage and admire the timeless design that brought this forum together.

Cheers!
 
the CS Concept car is actually the best von Hooydonk/Bangle design to come out of BMW in a long time (save for maybe the new Z4).

Am I correct they decided to not go forward with production? If true, it's a shame as it would have killed the Panamera in the market segment.

Oh well, so much for lost opportunity. Time to go back to the garage and admire the timeless design that brought this forum together.

Cheers!
 
glenn in encinitas said:
Note on the black and white one, two cars on the same line, with different driver's side mirror placement. That confirms it: There really was no rhyme or reason- just whatever Hans felt like at the time.

The color photos are clearly the same day, but not mirror images. Note the cars are lined up in one, but not the other.
Click to expand...

There is a reason, one is US spec car (look at the additional side marker) and the next is Euro.

The pictures seem same day from opposite ends with the second picture being left-right inverted.
 
glenn in encinitas said:
Note on the black and white one, two cars on the same line, with different driver's side mirror placement. That confirms it: There really was no rhyme or reason- just whatever Hans felt like at the time.

The color photos are clearly the same day, but not mirror images. Note the cars are lined up in one, but not the other.
Click to expand...

There is a reason, one is US spec car (look at the additional side marker) and the next is Euro.

The pictures seem same day from opposite ends with the second picture being left-right inverted.
 
Is that better ???
Sorry for quality !
But it matches-like some of you noticed- the initial picture of this topic.


Considering the original fabrication location, the hypothesis of the Rheine wasn't satisfactory to me, like a member said. I also had heard about hulls being put "on rails" to reach the Munich plant.
Reading more about this, I learned last night in "Das grobe BMW-Coupe buch" (recommended) that all the bodies of the 2800 CS had been brought from Osnabruck Karman to Dingolfing Glas-Werk (BMW coupe plant) for final build . The book talks of some 9400 chassis . It matches the 9399 units of 2800 cs.
Then on the german link , about Karmann Rheine, they talk of 21 147 chassis in this plant .
If you add 9399 and 21 147, you have E9 total production .
30546.

Reading back this topic, it is always astonishing how experts like you, can recognize the slightest detail of their cherished love, in such poor-quality and low-resolution photos !!
best to all !!!
 
Is that better ???
Sorry for quality !
But it matches-like some of you noticed- the initial picture of this topic.


Considering the original fabrication location, the hypothesis of the Rheine wasn't satisfactory to me, like a member said. I also had heard about hulls being put "on rails" to reach the Munich plant.
Reading more about this, I learned last night in "Das grobe BMW-Coupe buch" (recommended) that all the bodies of the 2800 CS had been brought from Osnabruck Karman to Dingolfing Glas-Werk (BMW coupe plant) for final build . The book talks of some 9400 chassis . It matches the 9399 units of 2800 cs.
Then on the german link , about Karmann Rheine, they talk of 21 147 chassis in this plant .
If you add 9399 and 21 147, you have E9 total production .
30546.

Reading back this topic, it is always astonishing how experts like you, can recognize the slightest detail of their cherished love, in such poor-quality and low-resolution photos !!
best to all !!!
 
...it is not exactly the same !!

The Colorado has come down from the lift and is now in the row.
 
...it is not exactly the same !!

The Colorado has come down from the lift and is now in the row.
 
Intersting. If we assume that the red (actually inka) cs is a CSL, and it looks like a 1st serie CSL, then this fact simply 'erase' the legend which says that all the 1st serie 3.0 CSL were assemled at Alpina (Buchloe).
 
Intersting. If we assume that the red (actually inka) cs is a CSL, and it looks like a 1st serie CSL, then this fact simply 'erase' the legend which says that all the 1st serie 3.0 CSL were assemled at Alpina (Buchloe).
 
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