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Q1 2011: Loyal Munich Legends customer Jay Kay, lead singer of acid jazz band Jamiroquai, made a visit to ML Chelwood Gate HQ to collect his fully restored E9 3.0 CSL.

Auctioner description in 2021:Pop legend, Jay Kay, acquired this car in 2008 and was the 6th owner from new. Already restored once, the car had changed from it’s original color of yellow to the smart and more traditional BMW colour of “Diamond Schwartz” during the ownership of a Mr Cardelli from Cardiff who had acquired the car at a classic car auction in 1984. He sold the car on to a Mr Peter Walsh who ran it and presented it at various BMW Car Club Concours events prior to it being sold through Munich Legends to our vendor. The restoration works carried out by Mr Cardelli, fully detailed in the history file, include taking the bodywork back to bare metal and a complete engine rebuild with high compression Mahle pistons and the fitting of a Schrick cam and timing chain. New Bilstein springs and dampers were added at the time as were the Alpina alloy wheels, still present today, which are now virtually unobtainable. This process took four years to complete and was carried out by B.T. Cook of Weston-Super-Mare. The second restoration of the car was carried out by Jay in 2010 at Munich Legends which also involved a bare metal repaint costing £7,000 at the time (changing the colour to BMW Polaris Silver as it is today) and a full mechanical rebuild of the car costing £20,650 just for the labour and a further £8,232 in parts fitted during the process. All of this is fully detailed in the car's two very thorough and comprehensive history files. More recently, the BMW has sat in Jay’s amazing car collection and only lightly used. It's one of his favourite cars to drive and is always keen to keep it on its toes so consequently £940 was spent in October 2020 with Classic Heroes on a new fuel pump, relay and filter and a further £1,295 on a full service with replacement brake fluid in December 2020. The car has a new MOT, valid until 28-01-2022, and is ready now for a new owner to enjoy the Spring weather as we emerge out of lock-down and can return to enjoying classic motoring once more.

The car was purchased by Jay and delivered to ML early 2011 with instruction to fully strip the vehicle, acid dip and e coat the shell then restore the car to his specification which included spraying the vehicle in Polaris Silver, adding a pair of striking Wing Splitters, upgrading the headlights with HID’s and fully rebuilding the engine.

Transactions:

Silverstone auction
1. Saturday 27th March 2021
2. Live auction
3. Estimate: £100,000 - £115,000