RE: PH Heroes: BMW 3.0 CSL 'Batmobile'
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Paul Drawmer said:
He, a certain Mr Brian ‘Yogi’ Muir, did some work on the head, changed the cams, and fitted different limit switches to the fuel injection.
To get it converted, we drove the new CSi from Tonbridge to Pershore getting to Mr Muir’s residence at 08:30, and collected the car a week later. It was a great drive back, I remember it now, nearly 40 years later.
Brian Muir was also a great racer, with great success with the CSL.To get it converted, we drove the new CSi from Tonbridge to Pershore getting to Mr Muir’s residence at 08:30, and collected the car a week later. It was a great drive back, I remember it now, nearly 40 years later.
"CSL won by a streak"
- so it was a stripped down version?
: )
And just because I had to check:
street, n. and adj.
Phrases, P7
c. streets ahead (also better): far ahead of someone or something, far superior.
1885 Freeman’s Jrnl. (Dublin) 10 Oct. 6/6 M J Hayes..won streets ahead of a very weak opposition. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 6/3 The English are better photographers than the Americans, but as regards mechanical ingenuity..the latter are streets ahead. 1911 Times 22 Apr. 8 In the matter of nutriment Manitobas were ‘streets’ ahead of any flour that could be produced from English wheat. 1958 Times 27 Oct. 4 His distribution was streets better than that of Greenwood, who was always in trouble. 2005 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. B 5 The company [sc. Toyota] is streets ahead of GM on profitability.
d. by a street: by a wide margin (originally of a sporting victory).
1886 City of London School Mag. 10 166 [Monroe’s] best performance was the Quarter Mile under fourteen, which he ‘won by a street’. 1896 Fores’s Sporting Notes 13 4 ‘Won by a street,’ repeated Dick, thoughtfully… ‘Well, I’ll buy him, then, and if he can’t win the Grand Annual, I shall be very much astonished.’ 1952 Times 13 Aug. 2 Compton fought the spin of Laker..with all the skill and experience at his command… Had Compton gone Surrey would have been home by a street. 1982 Age Monthly Rev. (Melbourne) Mar. 11/3 Any label embracing such a wide range of usage is too wide by a street. 2000 M. BEAUMONT e 165 They’d done a campaign for 7UP… It was the best thing they had by a street.
- so it was a stripped down version?
: )
And just because I had to check:
street, n. and adj.
Phrases, P7
c. streets ahead (also better): far ahead of someone or something, far superior.
1885 Freeman’s Jrnl. (Dublin) 10 Oct. 6/6 M J Hayes..won streets ahead of a very weak opposition. 1898 Westm. Gaz. 1 Feb. 6/3 The English are better photographers than the Americans, but as regards mechanical ingenuity..the latter are streets ahead. 1911 Times 22 Apr. 8 In the matter of nutriment Manitobas were ‘streets’ ahead of any flour that could be produced from English wheat. 1958 Times 27 Oct. 4 His distribution was streets better than that of Greenwood, who was always in trouble. 2005 Daily Tel. 27 Oct. B 5 The company [sc. Toyota] is streets ahead of GM on profitability.
d. by a street: by a wide margin (originally of a sporting victory).
1886 City of London School Mag. 10 166 [Monroe’s] best performance was the Quarter Mile under fourteen, which he ‘won by a street’. 1896 Fores’s Sporting Notes 13 4 ‘Won by a street,’ repeated Dick, thoughtfully… ‘Well, I’ll buy him, then, and if he can’t win the Grand Annual, I shall be very much astonished.’ 1952 Times 13 Aug. 2 Compton fought the spin of Laker..with all the skill and experience at his command… Had Compton gone Surrey would have been home by a street. 1982 Age Monthly Rev. (Melbourne) Mar. 11/3 Any label embracing such a wide range of usage is too wide by a street. 2000 M. BEAUMONT e 165 They’d done a campaign for 7UP… It was the best thing they had by a street.
I caughty this one on camera at the BMW Car Club track day in Oct this year:
more here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmwccgb/sets/72157625...
more here:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/bmwccgb/sets/72157625...
Facefirst said:
mat205125 said:
I prefer the fuller figure J-Lo version personally 
A friend of the family bought a building on an industrial estate only to find the no.6 ever Alpina racing version of this very car (it was in a terrible state but was all there). He has spent literally years restoring it and it is still not on the original running gear (although it does have a BMW V12 in it at the mo). He has even gone to the trouble of having a batch of tyres made for it bases on the original kind!I'm not sure what it's worth, but it has to be way north of £100k. I've seen the car (in bits on the way back from the paint shop) and it is beautiful. I've not seen it running but my old man has and reckons it is simply amazing.
Luck in spades.
Alas I have turned 73 now, that car nearly caused heart problems when I first saw and heard it. Saw one at Le Mans Classic this year with same result.
Fantastic looking quality old car, probably the only BMW I lusted after as a JagMan.
Thanks for all these wonderful pictures in this thread.
Keith
Fantastic looking quality old car, probably the only BMW I lusted after as a JagMan.
Thanks for all these wonderful pictures in this thread.
Keith
pSynrg said:
A private bewinged CSL that was parked at the side of the road along with a 911 on my school route (in Germany) in 1977 cemented my absolute love of cars.
10/10 everytime.
Something like that happened to me in the early seventies in buenos aires posh retiro district. Just had to get off the bus on my way home to get a closer look, once with a dark green 911 and later on with one of these beauties in silver grey. I felt on cloud nine...10/10 everytime.
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