{"id":65545,"date":"2021-03-22T13:05:52","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T13:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/?p=65545"},"modified":"2021-03-31T06:33:21","modified_gmt":"2021-03-31T06:33:21","slug":"isdera-imperator-108i","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.secret-classics.com\/en\/isdera-imperator-108i\/","title":{"rendered":"Isdera Imperator 108i"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The “Ingenieursb\u00fcro f\u00fcr Styling, Design und Racing” (Engineering Bureau for Styling, Design and Racing), or Isdera for short, presented a radical sports car in 1984. However, car fans already knew the shapes for six years. Unfortunately, the car didn’t become a great sales success, although it wasn’t until 2008 that the final example was created. And yet, to this day, onlookers are delighted when they come across an Isdera Imperator 108i at a sports car meeting, in a museum, or by chance in moving traffic. With Bonhams about to auction the car with chassis number 021, it is time to tell the story of the Imperator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

New gullwing sports car<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

The start of this story has been in the mid-1970s. Eberhard Schulz had already built his first own sports car for his job interview at Porsche in 1969 and brought it with him to Zuffenhausen. As a developer, he was subsequently involved in various improvements to the 911. However, he already had a new design of his own in mind that would succeed the legendary Mercedes-Benz 300 SL. He finally realized this in 1978 together with the car tuner bb Automobiltechnik from Frankfurt under the abbreviation CW311. In addition to the gullwing doors, there was plenty of technology made in Germany. Parts from Porsche and Mercedes-Benz were used and a large Mercedes star was screwed into the front radiator opening. Since the Swabian brand knew about this project to some extent and hadn’t intervened in the run-up to the world premiere, they left it at this actually unauthorized use of the logo – probably also because the CW311 appeared favorably in automotive headlines worldwide. In 1980, the unique model also appeared in the movie “Car-napping”, which made it even more famous.<\/p>\n\n\n

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