{"id":32399,"date":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/bmw-507-from-john-surtees\/"},"modified":"2020-10-02T12:15:22","modified_gmt":"2020-10-02T12:15:22","slug":"bmw-507-from-john-surtees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/bmw-507-from-john-surtees\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW 507 from John Surtees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The chance to buy a car from 1957 from the first owner is very small. If this owner is known as motorsport legend John Surtees, only World Champion on two and four wheels, you should be even more interested to read this article. Surtees died in March 2017. Now Bonhams auctions his pride and joy, a 1957 BMW 507 at the Goodwood Festival of Speed.

He got this car as a present for his World Championship in the 500 cc class of motorbike racing in 1956. His team director Count Domenico Agusta asked what he would like to have. Shortly before that Surtees could test the 507 of Alexander von Falkenhausen, engineering director of BMW. As the car costed more than 4,000 US$ Surtees and Count Agusta agreed to pay it 50:50.<\/p>\n\n\n

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