{"id":18506,"date":"2019-05-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-21T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/bmw-m1-by-harald-ertl-2\/"},"modified":"2020-10-06T12:27:12","modified_gmt":"2020-10-06T12:27:12","slug":"bmw-m1-by-harald-ertl-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bmw-m1-by-harald-ertl-2\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW M1 by Harald Ertl"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Just over a month ago we reported on a very special BMW M1, which was converted for the use of LPG by a few companies and driven by journalist and racing driver Harald Ertl as a record vehicle together with BP. At the time of the report, we assumed that the record car, which today is in a very poor condition and was sold during a Coys auction at the Techno Classica for about 160,000 euros, was a pure one-off vehicle. Understandably, our astonishment was great when we recently visited the Classic Remise in D\u00fcsseldorf and found this special M1 in the showroom of a resident provider of classic car leasing. But something was wrong with the picture. The car in the shop window was in excellent condition, with black metallic paint instead of dark blue and cream leather, where the record car shows black. That couldn’t be the same car.

After a brief conversation with Marcus Keller of Comco Classic Car Leasing, where this M1 is on display, it became clear: Harald Ertl and the company C.A.R., which he founded together with advertising expert Gerhard Freudenberg, had converted a second M1, but only visually. While the record vehicle got some engine modifications to run on LPG and then received significantly more power via turbocharging, this second car still has the original inline six-cylinder engine with 286 hp. Even the manual five-speed gearbox and the chassis were apparently unaffected. But this M1, which was originally delivered in orange, also received the new bodywork, developed by the company Seger & Hoffmann from arami fibers. According to our information, even a certain Mr Walter Wolf may have been involved with the design. Based on a model in the wind tunnel they found a good, streamlined shape, which was then reshaped from large plastic parts to cover the M1 skeleton with them instead of the original bodywork.<\/p>\n\n\n

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