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It fits spot on.

Although it is attempting to try to get this one right, I prefer my steering wheels: Slightly to medium dished Firm leather grip 3 preferably black spokes, absolutely not polished/chromed and somehow this one doesn‘t meet the first criteria since it‘s flat but as long as I don‘t run into a...

Thank you, that seems like a good way to start.

Thank you for your valuable input. I totally agree with you about originality and the seams are so pristine. From your experiance, would you still recommend to massage it with water/steam prior to the silicone step? Cheers.

Hi, a couple of years ago, I had the possibility to buy a very early pre-stacked 380mm MOMO Prototipo in order to use it in my nevada ´69 2800. What I didn‘t know at the time of purchase, was exactly how old it was and I got it pretty cheap, given its sad appearance. The engraved PAT. MOMO...

Thanks for the clarification Luis! I remember that the 3.3L had the wiring messed up at the relay when I bought the car in the 90s and it tended to activate the headlight wipers every time those were turned on - very annoying! I know that when I grew up in Sweden in the 80s, all cars had the...

Yes I‘m very much sure I will keep it Nevada. Looking at a fresh nice full red paint like Granada is however very joyful! In the end of the 60s, it was a fairly common hue, not only on the E3 or the other BMW like the 2- and 4-door 4-cylinder cars, but also with other manufacturers like Alfa...

I can confirm that all 3.3 L/Li had the headlight wipers installed as a standard feature, exaclty like the drivers-side power-door-mirror. The only options (which you had to pay for) for those models were: A/C LSD rear sway bar self-levelling suspension the rest was in there - take it or leave...

That‘s a very good help in order to learn more about these details. Thank you!

Sorry, false alarm. I rechecked the compendium handed out to the press on 9/25/68 and it only states the following sizes: 2500: 175 HR 14 2800: 185 HR 14 or DR70 HR 14 2800CS: 175 HR 14 Of course, this was just in the beginning before anyone outside had driven the cars, so eventually we all...

Here the CN36 is also available in 185/70 VR14, just as apossibility. Very early E3 and E9 were specified with that according to the fist leaflets written on a typewriter…

Those are late 80s /early 90s italian repros from Rivi&Grimaldi. The Design is similar, yes but not the same as the Ronal / Pedrini (FPS) produced orininals. Note that the offset here is 10mm, just as the more common version from Rial.

There are even long time E3-drivers that add 100-250cc of two-stroke oil (instead of lead surrogate) per fill-up to compensate for the lacking of lublicating abilities in modern petrol, helping lifetime expectancy of injector valves, carb axles and preventing residue build up within the carb…

That looks very nice! I´m starting to question my intension to redo my ´69 2800 in the original Nevada when seeing this!

I think that maybe the most knowledgeable LWB E3 in the US might be David Woodhams #74 3.3L (polaris with indigo leather). I believe he’s located on the east coast, SC?

Yes that is an early 3.0 S in Bristol. That very car was for sale with this picture in the south of Germany some 15 years ago.

I have a set of 4 of these Campagnolo rims. They are 5x120 and 6.5x14 with a 22 mm offset (ET). They have collected dust for at least 25 years so they will need a little bit of TLC.

You can buy this part from Kolb Motorsport. Cheers Anders

Always nice to see an early 2800 in Nevada :-) Just bought mine 9 years ago in a similar way and drove 1000 mls home next day (Seller‘s photo)

The subframe had higher mounting points (shorter mounting ears) for the trailing arms until 05/71 which made the cars sit lower with the same amount of camber compared with the later cars. If you fit a 05/71 or later subframe and dito springs to an eraly car, the car will sit higher without any...