BMW 3.0 CSL 2285039

Below: after 2015

Below: August 2015

Below unknown date

Photo below: owned by Richard Rihan

 

Title: MMA 78L

Model code:  3452

Exterior color (Paint code):

• Race livery # 138
• Repainted Dakar Yellow (267) , BMW M3 E36 color.
• Polaris metallic (060)

Restoration: Jaymic UK in 1998

Additional equipments:
Prepped for historic racing (roll cage, harnesses, fuel cell, adjustable suspension, 15-inch yellow alloy wheels)

History:

After 2017: believed to be converted to LHD, and prepared as a group 4 race car

Erik Bale: "I had a 5 speed box installed and saw way past 150 mph on the autoroute... without the wing, top speed was slower with it. Enjoyed 30 years and 100K miles of really fast motoring, many track days".

Before: track car for 30 years

Transaction: 2015: for sale at DPM Motors in Monaco http://www.dpm-motors.com/. Seller lives in Hawai, car located in Vence, France

Modification:

• 5 speed transmission
• in the past the car had been converted to GPL for one year but it lacked power and the system was taken off. Early version of trying to make a historic car a little more green. But it always ran better on petrol,

Owner:

1. Later: Franz Wunderlich ?
2. 2017: sold to a race shop in Germany
3. 1987 -> 2017: Erik Beale (United States)
4. 1986 -> 1987: Richard Rihan (18 months)
5. Ivan
6. Delivery: United Kingdom
7. Production: December 1rst 1972