UPDATE from Baur Guru Jeroen Janssen 1/24/2014. Thank you Jeroen!
This TC1 is about as near as you can get to an Alpina Baur. It started it's life as a 316 and was made into a B6 2.8, with all the parts from a crashed Alpina:
I found some pics of a couple of what appeared to be Baur Alpinas on French forum tonight, and this led me to this:
http://www.alpina-archive.com/?page_id=46
I also found these images on that site:
These pics below appeared on the French forum:
http://www.autotitre.com/forum/Baur-j-adore-103978p2.htm
We have seen many discussions of whether there were any Baurs converted by Alpina. The general consensus is no, there were never any Baurs converted by Alpina itself. However, some Baurs WERE converted by Garage du Bac in France under a license from Alpina. We can clearly see some Garage du Bac windshield stickers on some of the Baurs above. So, are they genuine Alpinas, or are they what we would consider Alpina Tributes?
Again, the general consensus is that they are Alpina Tributes.
They are still pretty rare and pretty cool cars!
This TC1 is about as near as you can get to an Alpina Baur. It started it's life as a 316 and was made into a B6 2.8, with all the parts from a crashed Alpina:
I found some pics of a couple of what appeared to be Baur Alpinas on French forum tonight, and this led me to this:
http://www.alpina-archive.com/?page_id=46
I also found these images on that site:
These pics below appeared on the French forum:
http://www.autotitre.com/forum/Baur-j-adore-103978p2.htm
We have seen many discussions of whether there were any Baurs converted by Alpina. The general consensus is no, there were never any Baurs converted by Alpina itself. However, some Baurs WERE converted by Garage du Bac in France under a license from Alpina. We can clearly see some Garage du Bac windshield stickers on some of the Baurs above. So, are they genuine Alpinas, or are they what we would consider Alpina Tributes?
Again, the general consensus is that they are Alpina Tributes.
They are still pretty rare and pretty cool cars!
Hi Tom, the article about the TC2 explains a lot; everything was made into being an Alpina except the engine...
ReplyDeleteThe car itself is B41067-13, a 323i in Lapisblau (sounds familiar, doesn't it ;-)).
S206 FUENF-GANG-SPORTGETRIEBE
S209A SPERRDIFFERENTIAL 25%
S215A SERVOLENKUNG, DREHZAHLABHAENGIG
S311 ELEKTRISCHER BEIFAHRERSPIEGEL
S320A MODELLSCHRIFTZUG ENTFALL
S350A WAERMESCHUTZGLAS GRUEN, RUNDUM
S410A FENSTERHEBER, ELEKTRISCH VORN
L813A FRANKREICH-AUSFUEHRUNG
S829A CABRIOUMBAU-VORBEREITUNG
S854A SPRACHVERSION FRANZOESISCH
S915A nur Boden konserviert
Don't know if the car made it till now, never seen it except on these pictures from the article.
This TC1 is about as near as you can get to an Alpina Baur. It started it's life as a 316 and was made into a B6 2.8, with all the parts from a crashed Alpina:
[img]http://baur-tc.de/images/phocagallery/TC1-Register/2346/thumbs/phoca_thumb_l_72346.jpg[/img]
Gr Jeroen
Great stuff, as always, Jeroen! Thanks for your input!
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