In search of....

[shanon]

Lenoard Nemoy here,

In today's episode we are in Portugal in search of: the Schnitzer 2800cs racer - 'LF X 15'

Came across this article on the Net somewhere in Portugal I believe....
Anybody know what happened to this one? Anyone read Portuguese?
Article is from 'Topos & Classicos', Nov 2008.

Portugese message board link to chat & article (scroll down)
http://www.mazungue.com/angola/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=2674&pageNo=2

enjoy!
-s

 

[x_atlas0]

You just have to love the flames spewing from the side-exit exhaust. So cool.

 

[Erik]

You just have to love the flames spewing from the side-exit exhaust. So cool.

x2

nice Angola shots too... love that pink house and the pink lady backdrop with the Schnitzer coupe, - classic

 

[Arde]

The car belonged to Trevauto, the BMW dealer in Lisbon.

Says around August 72 in Portugal Carlos Santos who was not familiar with the car had a clumsy accident that damaged the monobloc and the car "remained always unbalanced".
The car raced last in October coming 5 seconds behind the winner (a basque driver) and had stability problems.

The car never raced again in Portugal. In 1973 it may have been part of a deal for the Lola T292-BMW Schnitzer in Angola. A J Silveira from Autocal Angola says the car was on display at BMW Munich museum.

 

[shanon]

Thx Arde!

So was it on display in Munich back in '73 or in recent years?

Curious if it is still 'in tact' or went the way of the Broadspeed and got 'morphed'...

-s

 

[2275xxx]

More information about the Schnitzer coupés in Angola.

http://www.motorclassico.pt/automobilismo-em-angola/7190-schnitzer-em-angola.html

 

[Arde]

Thx Arde!

So was it on display in Munich back in '73 or in recent years?

Curious if it is still 'in tact' or went the way of the Broadspeed and got 'morphed'...

-s

It is written as though Silveira recently said the car was in Munich, and the article is from 2008. Maybe the car is no longer there but you could visit the formol jar exhibit with Carlos Santos scrotum inside...

 

[roundel]

Lf x 15

LF-X-15 was not `a` car but in fact was used on at least 3 cars.
As back in those days when Europe was many different countries it was difficult to take cars over borders without specific papers for each car. A `carnet` was required for each car, nearly every race team had only 1 or 2 `carnets` & switched them from car to car as suited.
As where Schnitzer were based in Germany & the closest race circuit for testing was Salzburg. Which although only 20kms away, was over the border in Austrian. So they would have to produce papers for whatever car they were testing every trip, hence probably why the `registration` was used on several cars. Not unusual back then.
The first car to use it was in Hillclimbs in 1970 & the last in ETCC in 1973.
Alex

 

[gpetrus]

http://www.racingsportscars.com/type/photo/BMW/2800 CS.html

This doesn't help your search too much but I thought it was an interesting list.

 

[feri]

Alex:

Thank you for sharing this information.