re: #73 dog philosopher

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1939 BMW 327 ROADSTER

Love it. I had both the fortune and misfortune of owning a ‘71 BMW Bavaria. That was one of their first 6 cylinder sedans for America. It had that beautiful 3 liter straight 6 with the huge timing chain. It would purr like a motorboat at idle or low throttle and then growl with the whine of the chain when opened up.

I only got to drive it for a few months though, as it self-destructed the rather costly 3-speed ZF automatic transmission. The guy, a client, I bought it from had tranny problems with it, and got fed up, had another company put it together for a second time and then he sold it to me for some graphics work I had done for him.

By the time it blew up on me there was nothing left to fix, and I sure didn’t have money to get a used one from Germany. Company that looked at it said the main shaft had been scored by someone not having the proper tools to put the gears on it. They also saw ‘peen’ marks on the gear faces. I guess that was how they stacked them.

Sold it to a BMW mechanic for him to restore. He may have put a 2800 4-speed in it. Fastest sedan I ever drove for the time. Very rare car.