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Our appreciation for roundel-badged vehicles extends to legacy BMWs, so we\u2019re happy to learn that the German automaker is increasing its support for classic vehicles.<\/p>\n
The biggest news is that the BMW Classic Center has opened its doors to the public. Heretofore the division only worked on restoring and maintaining historic vehicles for the company\u2019s internal collections. The new Historic Workshop will accept commissions from outside customers who want their Bimmer or Beemer rebuilt.<\/p>\n
<\/span><\/p>\n Current projects in the workshop include a 1970s-era BMW 3.0 CSi. Though that particular model was only ever offered with a manual transmission, the car\u2019s current owner wants an automatic swapped in instead\u2014we cry heresy. Regardless, the Historic Workshop has access to company documents and tools that will make the swap possible. They\u2019re also restoring an M1<\/a> which was left outside in Malaysia for so long that it was filled with termite nests.<\/p>\n If you want to do the resto work yourself, BMW Classic Center offers a growing list of original (i.e. from BMW) parts, starting with those for the R 24 motorcycle that entered production just after World War II, up through the 1994-model-year 7-series. Also available are reconditioned engines with a two-year warranty: send BMW your old, broken mill and they\u2019ll send back a replacement that\u2019s \u201cas good as a new engine.\u201d The parts catalogue is online at www.bmw-classic.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n And if they don\u2019t have the part you need, BMW Classic Center can make it. The Historic Workshop has access to original technical drawings, so if the tooling for certain parts has been lost or destroyed, they can recreate parts from scratch. To prevent that from happening, though, the Classic Center takes custody of as much tooling and production equipment as possible after production of a car or bike is discontinued.<\/p>\n Of course, not every BMW fan lives in Germany. There\u2019s now a BMW Classic Center in Switzerland and the company will soon open shop in the U.S.<\/p>\n If you race a classic BMW, you\u2019re in luck too. BMW Classic has launched a motorsports division that caters to providing parts and restoration help for owners who race their cars. Some of those are road cars converted to track duty, while others are historical BMW racers still seeing competitive action. To demonstrate its prowess, the motorsports group will rebuild a 1964 Mini Cooper S Mark 1 and a 1970s-era BMW 1602 Touring for racing duty.<\/p>\n Related posts:<\/p>\n Our appreciation for roundel-badged vehicles extends to legacy BMWs, so we\u2019re happy to learn that the German automaker is increasing its support for classic vehicles. The biggest news is that the BMW Classic Center has opened its doors to the public. Heretofore the division only worked on restoring and maintaining historic vehicles for the company\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6409,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-522072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522072","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6409"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=522072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/522072\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=522072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=522072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=522072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/blog.caranddriver.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/BMW-Classic-Center-Historic-Workshop-440x268.jpg\" "\\"BMW")
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