2800cs Project anyone?

Having owned my '71 2800 cs for the last 24 years, I am facing up to having to let it go.......

I rebuilt the car in the early '80s, with a total ground up, nut and bolt rebuild, with loads of photos to prove it.  The shell was seam-welded and had the following done at that time:

New front wings, New front inner wings, Both "A" posts and "B" posts completely rebuilt, New outer sills, with rebuilt mid and inner sills, and new covers, Rear wing bottom sections and rear pannel bottom sections, Boot floor repair.

All of this was then topped with a couple of gallons of Waxoyl, and a nice paintjob by my local dealer, in Arctic Blue, a colour then available on 6-ser.  I drove the car for 3 years and did around 40,000 miles, bring the total to about 180,000. We then put the car into a (dry and heated) storage, where it has remained ever since.  As a result, it has seized hydraulics, and would need rebuilt front callipers, rear wheel cylinders and clutch master cylinder. However, there is no rust, and as such this is a fine basis for this kind of car.  The trim is all present 7 correct, and the car will tidy up nicely with a little time spent.

I have a host of spares, including a complete tan leather interior (incl door cards etc) and a set of BMW/Alpina 6.5J/14 rims and a set of 100+ 7J/14 Alpina lookalike wheels, a short 2.8 engine (used) etc etc.

This car needs time and patience, and it will once again be a gorgeous piece of history.  Sadly, I need the garage space, and with 2 other classic BMWs and a much older car to worry about, I need the space.  I do not want to see this car be broken or cannibalised.

I have not advertised the car, but am open to reasonable offers and felt that the forum might be the best place to start.  I apologise if this breaches any forum etiquette, but don't feel this is a straight "car for sale" situation. 

Some pictures follow - to give an idea of colour etc. Sorry about the quality, they are scanned copies from an APS camera...

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If you would like to ask me anything about this car, please either call on 01280 860235 or email me on samlever@thinkpositive.co.uk

Andy,

I agree - the CSLs can look a bit in your face next to the other coupes.  Mind you, with bumbers and no wings they can be lovely too.......

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a5/sfh3l/SFH3L6.jpg

That's my other elderly friend, which is a CSL, but a sensibly restrained one (! not at Donnington etc!) .  I also have to try and keep the M3 looking nice while I drive it every day, and the final straw is that I have to make room for a 20's Rolls Royce.  This leaves the garage over-full, and my list of "jobs" looking like war and peace.

Go on - you know you want to.

SFH3L wrote: Andy, to make room for a 20's Rolls Royce.

A 20/25 by any chance?....or was that an early thirties
model? Me, I like the pre '74 (Shadow 1 based)
Corniche FHC and the glorious Camargue. Real
Crewe built Rollers and not some ponced up BMW
thing.

Pics of the Rolls please my Good Man!

Nice CS by the way.

You know your old cars.

20HP indeed, an ex-factory experimental chassis, one of the very few refettled and then sold on as a used car.  The ultimate ex-demonstrator.  Driven by one of the men himself for 6 months as his runabout test hack.

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a5/sfh3l/2542.jpg

Been in the family for 50 years, and time we got it back to how it should be.  As you can see, that will take more than T-Cut!

Yeah, I think 20/25.  It was certainly more bulbous and newer.  The 20HP has a much more vintage character to it.  You definitely see it as part of the 20's and not the 30's.  It's like the difference between the CS (very 1960's) and the 6 ser (very 70's).

Amazed nobody fancies taking on the 2800 cs.  Where's your sense of adventure? 

In the light of the other posts: 

I'm not emigrating - My wife doesn't mind if I keep it - I haven't just acquired a company car - we don't have a new baby, or house - but I will admit to it needing a little "tidying".

Te he

Sam

What beautiful cars!

Thanks for posting the pic's, I wish you luck finding a good home for the CS.

Cheers

 

Nonsense!

If the body is good, that's the battle won. The rest of it
is nuts and bolts - even if the engine was no good, a
secondhand E28 528i engine (£150 tops) will drop
straight in and convert to carbs. In fact, I would leave
it as LE Jetronic injection for economy.
The troublesome twin servos? Go to a breakers and
find a couple of Peugeot 205GTi's, they're near
enough the same units. Obviously you need to keep
Waxoyling the thing and Volvo 240 front wheelarch
liners fit the CS after some mild trimming and keep
the wet mud from the important bits.

This could be a cheap way of getting a good CS on
the road. Ignore those who say the 2800 isn't as
good as the 3.0 CS. After 35 years it hardly matters!

Well -that got you talking!

BTW, the 2800 cs doesn't have the twin servo set up of the 3.0 coupes.  As all the cars were made in LHD and converted on arrival to GB (by a man with a bag of hammers and a scraper to remove any underseal that had accidentally been applied by Karmann  ).  Instead the car has the one big servo of the LHD cars, with a more complex master cylinder.

I can only compare to my csl as far as driving is concerned, and even that isn't fair, as I have the Alpina roll bars, uprated springs and Bilstein shocks on that.  No, it isn't as fast, and the brakes did fade if I hammered them, but as an "up to 70% driving" car, it was a lot more relaxing and comfortable.  Horses for courses - no pun intended Horsetan.