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This BMW 1600 Neue Klasse Is A Grey Ghost
As a fresh faced college kid I somehow talked my folks into getting a 2000TI. Polaris silver with a red gut. And somehow I talked them into letting me pick it up at the factory in Germany. 7000 miles later I arranged passage back to New Jersey and managed to drive it for a few years. It was certainly not a ‘kid’ car and I wish I knew then what I know now. I would have entered corners slower and left faster. I would have been obsessive about maintenance. I would have used a whole lot more wax. I knew what I had, but nobody else did. I should have stayed with the original conviction and held onto it. What a lovely car that nobody understood.
I had a 1966 1600 just like this (except beige). I guess you have made it a better car with your mods, but it was an excellent automobile just as it was built.
I am kind of an originalist and would like to find one restored to its original form. Yours sounds like an Austin-Healey 100 — BMWs don’t usually sound like that, although I am sure yours outperforms it with one hand tied behind its back.
We had a BMW 1800 sedan, when I first got my drivers licence, along with a 2500 Auto sedan. I loved both these cars. As a new driver, my dad basically gave me his 1800 so that I could get to Architecture school. I loved the individual looks of this car, and how it handled. I kind of wish we still had this car in the family. There are relatively so few of this model left out here. The new classe BMW also came in the 1800Ti version which was extensively raced in Europe in the day, and lastly a 2L version was made but with rectangular headlights. In a sense this was BMWs version of the Alfa Giulia Super, of which I have had 2 and now have my 3rd one (a 1300 TI), but done up as a Super. Nice one Petrolicious and good to see the owner of this BMW enjoying it properly.
Thank you! I think that Tuesday is my favorite day of the week now. As a BMW CCA member, stories like this really strum my heart strings. Cant wait to get another older classic BMW. I have been kicking my self for a while now ever since I sold my last 4 wheeled companion with a M10 heart beating under the clamshell hood. Soon… Soon, I tell my self repeatedly to keep from tipping over the edge and falling into the dark pit of all encompassing regret. Thank you Mr. Huff for letting me live viCARiously through you. I greatly appreciate it.
He on Twin Peaks Blvd, near Christmas Tree Point, in SF. Try this URL for map coordinates.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Christmas+Tree+Point/@37.7549754,-122.4503418,16.9z/data=!4m2!3m1!1s0x0000000000000000:0x79e62844cfa6b37c
