Pay attention, ’70s BMW fans – because if you bid wisely at Silverstone Auctions’ Heythrop Park sale next month you could bag yourself a striking blue 3.0CSi.
While it’s usually the homologated CSL that gets the market excited these days, we think its CSi sibling is actually the better buy: almost as fast, every bit as beautiful and a lot, lot cheaper. It’s also rarer, at least in right-hand-drive form, with a mere 215 built for the UK versus 500 CSL right-hookers.
Two examples of the CSi are up for grabs at the sale on 11 May, each of them with a pre-sale estimate of more than £40,000; a CSL will usually set you back around £200,000.
We’re particularly taken with the 1975 BMW 3.0CSi pictured above, which is finished in the rare – and eye-catching – shade known as Turkish Blue.
The 43rd of just 207 right-hand drive cars built during the last two years of production between October 1973 and November 1975, it gained its striking blue – and period-correct – paint job during a recommission courtesy of Classic Legends of Northampton.
