This one looks like Dave Lyon's car! I have known about this one from 2 owners prior when it lived in Leeudoringstad (please don't ask me to show you this on the map! ) Number 116 of the advertised 204. There is no firm eveidence to prove 204 were ever produced though, BMW SA did advertise they were going to build them but that was in early '85 when Grp 1 racing was still on the go, when Grp 1 got canned I don't think they bothered with the 333 anymore, they had a new toy, the first 325 126kW "shadowline". The highest number VIN I have on register is #171. I also have #1, it still exists. The M&M figures are all wrong, they even clash with the incomplete numbers on the original BMW microfisches. The only real period racing was Robbi Smith in the Class B Wesbank one for '86, even then they tried to get it into Class A with the 3.5l engine but MSA wanted nothing of it
I track mine every now and again and I must add that on the circuit it feels unbalanced, a real throttle steer machine, that M30 engine makes it's presence known up front. I have driven 325iS's and they are streets ahead, razorlike by comparison, the lighter engine helps but the real reason is the all E30 M3 undercarriage, 5 lug hubs, links, dampers, springs, geometry "alles!".
Still a real cruiser though, a magic car to tour the countryside with (that is if you are sitting in front!), eats hills for lunch and gives all the current crop of hot hatches a real "skrik" in a straight line.
BTW, the trip came std with Pirelli P7's in 16" Mine still has the original spare.
How's this for "inflation" next to the current equivalent!
