325ix BAUR

[Baur]

Bernd hat mir mal gefragt sein Story auf mein Webseite zu veroffentliche. Leider habe ich nicht die Zeit genommen um alles aus zu arbeiten.

On the way to a 325iX Baur TC

The Story of a life with BMW cars – On the way to being the owner of the ultra-rare Baur TC2 325iX.
Now being more than 4 years a BMW TC owner, I try to translate my original TC2 fotostory my into English language so that most of the readers can easily understand why I dig the BMW cars and especially the Baur TC2 325iX.


Even though writing a fotostory does take some time, it is presenting your car and is showing to others that Baur TC2 cars are to be kept in good condition and do make much joy.



I have not that much time, because I have to care for 2 Baur TC2 and another 4 E30 cars.



To understand some of my comments you should know that I started in 1971 with BMW cars

Epoch 1 (the wild years)
-BMW 1600-2 Alpina 1971-1976 chamonix white 085
-BMW 2002ti Alpina 1976-1996 chamonix white 085

Epoch 2 (highway years)
BMW 323i (E21) 1982-1987 ascot-grey metallic 151

Epoch 3 (more comfort)
BMW 528i 1987-1991 broncit-beige-met. 139

Epoch 4 (strange combination)
BMW 323iA (E30) 1994-1996 opal-green metallic 171
Couchmen 36ft 1996-1997 battle-ship grey na.

Epoch 5 (electronic years)
BMW 525tds (E34) 1996-1997 cirrusblue metallic 189
BMW 530iA Individual (E34) 2003-2004 amethyst-metallic 452
BMW 540i (E34) 1997-1998 sterlingsilver-met. 244
BMW 850 (E31) 1999-2003 diamondblack-met. 181

[b]Epoch 6 E30 (back to the roots)
BMW 316i Baur TC2 2003- lazurblue-metallic 294
BMW 325i/4 2004- salmonsilvermetal 203
BMW 325 ix Baur TC2 2004- salmonsilvermetal 203
BMW 325/2 ixA 2004-2007 lazurblue-metallic 294
BMW 325/2 ix 2005- cirrusblue-metallic 189
BMW 320i Touring 2006-2007 salmonsilvermetal 203
BMW 325iA/4 2006- alpinwhite II 218
BMW 325iA Touring 2007- brokatredmetallic 259

Introduction

After ending my apprenticeship in 1969 I wanted to own a nice car at all cost. So I looked around for a . Opel Diplomat vintage 1965 (Chevrolet 283ci, 2-speed automatic and electric windows in laplata-silver, leather roof). This is such a car (1968 model with 327ci engine for reference).

My parents did not like my decision. I had to stand up some discussions like “how will you maintain this car” and “did you consider the thirst of such car when you are studying”. “What will your head of department say (for clarification: in such years in german concerns head of departments were driving normally Opel Rekord oder Ford Taunus 17m and not V8-engines).

Anyway, this did not hurt me – but my parents, so in the end they decided to sell their car to me.

It was a BMW 1600-2 Alpina.of 1967.

If they would have known what they did to me – I should stay with BMW for the rest of life.

Gr Jeroen