Baur TC1 in the US

[tomscat1]

Forum member EBMW21 found this ad in craig's list and posted it here in another thread.

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/sgv...352407634.html

I have emailed the seller, and I am awaiting his response. Hopefully he will provide more info on the car. Kudos to Baurhunter of the Week, EBMW21!!! This appears to be a new find, although I haven't been able to check very carefully yet.

Anyone out that way to check it out?


i have a 81 bmw 320i runs very well got it a frew months back in longbeach from my smog guy car runs very well .i drive it from colton off the 10 to longbeach everyday to work .reason for sale i work from 3pm to 11pm and i be sleepy and have to change gears in it o yes its a 5 speed with a two peace top you can take the sun roof off or both sun roof and back convertsdown i never seen one like this but on cardomaine just had oil change runs good you can reach me at 424-210-6579 cell name lavell ok ladys an men one guy say the driveshaft is bad i think its the muffler hitting the bottom of the car while driveing you dont here it only when pull off slow so going to have it check real sooon but still for sale need very little work on the inside have to see or drive it i drive from sanbernadino off the 10 and 215 five days to longbeach off the 710 and 91 and back never gave me a hassle i jst need another car also willing to trade for so what you got but got to drive as good as mine .i just drove it up the 605 to the 10 to the 215 in about a hour or less at 80 mph all the way here are a frew photos call for more

Location: Inland Colton
it's NOT ok to contact this poster with services or other commercial interests

It has been about two weeks now since this car was sold. A fella named Khoygani D. Apparently bought it. Anyone know of him? LA area, I believe. Baur #3264. Love to get some more info on this. Any Baurspotters in LA?

[tomscat1]

Thanks to bimmerforums member rudy92 we have a video of the recent Bimmerfest in California that includes footage of TWO Baurs: Koko's beautiful Hennarot (correct?) 1982 323i, and another silver Baur that we are trying identify presently.

Here is the link to the thread:
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1654092


Thank you to rudy92 and Koko! The mobile part of the video was shot from Koko's Baur! Great job, fellas!
And here is the video:

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[tomscat1]

Here are some more pics from Bimmerfest May 2011 held last weekend. We would like to try to identify the Baur above. Bimmerforums member rudy92 sent us the following, which is all we know about it for now:
"What I remember was that it was a 316 single headlights yes, I think the car had only 28 thousand miles, and the color was a very light greenish silver. And also the owner didnt speak much english, he was armenian."



West Coast Baurhunters: can anyone help us identify this car? E21baur may know him, since we have another pic of the two parked next to one another, I believe. .... In the video shot by rudy92 in the previous post "Two Baurs at Bimmerfest 2011", the two Baurs appear at 2:37 parked next to each other at a 90 degree angle. we can see the license plate on the silver one is "California: 6CXD210".

I thought folks might enjoy seeing this one.

I have posted a few more in my blog.
http://baurspotting.blogspot.com/



Many thanks to the fellas who provided these pics, which were originally posted in bimmerforums this week: rudy92, uberpanzer, ebmw21 and E21Adam. Some of them may been borrowed from Autoblog, so we want to give them credit also. I apologize if I left someone out. Great job, fellas!

[L8apex914]

Hello all!
I am the new proud owner of the Baur tc #1475 which I have read about in this thread. The cars new home is in Rockaway Beach N.Y. I am a long time Porsche guy with several 914's and a 944 but this is my first BMW. I look forward to learning as much as i can from the Baur community.

[tomscat1]

Congratulations and welcome! We have been watching your car for some time now.... From the Balt-DC area, up to Long Island, then into the city and now to you! I know one previous owner did a lot of things to it... Can you update us on what it is like now? He did a paint job, I think, and was doing some engine.... But I never heard the final outcome.
Welcome!

[tomscat1]

BTW, keep your eyes peeled out there. There was another Baur sighted in Merrick, Long Island a couple of years ago, and we haven't been able to track it down.

See page 6 of this thread, post #183, I think. There are pics of the car.... It has square headlights.... And our resident Baur Guru, Jeroen from The Netherlands, indicates that it may be a car that once belonged to the Baur family. Without the Baur number, of course, we can't be sure.

If I am not mistaken, you are not too far from Merrick. With any luck, you will be caught in one of those infamous Long Island traffic jams together, and you will have a chance to chat!

J/K. But do let us know if you come across any info on that other Baur.

[E21BAUR]

Hey u dont u have a picture of mine in that list im #3,527

[tomscat1]

Not yet.

Those cars you see in the list are the cars that are registered with the International Baur Registry. I just checked, and your car is not registered there yet.

So your car was unknown to us as a US Baur.
Have you been to this site?

http://www.baur-tc1.de/

Let's get your Baur registered there. They will want a couple of pics similar to what you see there, including a pic of the Baur plate showing your Baur number. The list is run by Stefan (I think), and perhaps Jeroen Janssen (Baur Guru) can help us get you registered. All those pics came from him, btw.

We do need to revise that list, because we have added quite a few US Baurs since that list first went up last December. There were 33 cars originally... And while I don't have a firm count off the top of my head.... I think we have 50-80 Baurs now... Not all have had confirmed Baur numbers yet. But we are working on it!!

The Baur spotted in Merrick NY, and mentioned above tonight, is another example. Or the silver one you saw at Bimmerfest also. We know those cars are out there, but we need to get them identified and registered in the international Baur Registry.

Any help is greatly appreciated: Welcome Aboard!

[E21BAUR]

Yeah i tred registering on that sight like a month ago and i never got a response ?
so idk
im just supposed to email the person with pics and some info right?

[E21BAUR]

Here are some more pics from Bimmerfest May 2011 held last weekend. We would like to try to identify the Baur above. Bimmerforums member rudy92 sent us the following, which is all we know about it for now:
"What I remember was that it was a 316 single headlights yes, I think the car had only 28 thousand miles, and the color was a very light greenish silver. And also the owner didnt speak much english, he was armenian."



West Coast Baurhunters: can anyone help us identify this car? E21baur may know him, since we have another pic of the two parked next to one another, I believe. .... In the video shot by rudy92 in the previous post "Two Baurs at Bimmerfest 2011", the two Baurs appear at 2:37 parked next to each other at a 90 degree angle. we can see the license plate on the silver one is "California: 6CXD210".

I thought folks might enjoy seeing this one.

I have posted a few more in my blog.
http://baurspotting.blogspot.com/



Many thanks to the fellas who provided these pics, which were originally posted in bimmerforums this week: rudy92, uberpanzer, ebmw21 and E21Adam. Some of them may been borrowed from Autoblog, so we want to give them credit also. I apologize if I left someone out. Great job, fellas!

The guy in back,
the shorter one wearing black is the owner of the car
do a face check through police files i wishhh

[AlaskaBimmer]

I got this one last year at bimmerfest....it's been repainted and it's already listed.

[tomscat1]

Jeff,
YOU DA MAN! That is the one! You nailed it! Another Baur mystery solved, thanks to our alert Baurspotter, who came all the way from Alaska to take those shots!

Kudos Alaskabimmer, Baurhunter of the Week!

[tomscat1]

70558 316



Sho' Nuff!! Here it is in Jeroen's original list on Page 1 of this thread! We do not have the owner's name.... unless Jeff (Alaskabimmer) has it from last year. But rudy92 says he believes he is of Armenian heitage, and may be from the Glendale, CA area.

[tomscat1]

73527 E21Baur's beautiful example at Bimmerfest May 2011


I have also inserted this on page 3 of this thread, but I couldn't put it in numerical order, since I already had too many pics in the post.

[AlaskaBimmer]

He is of Armenian heritage I don't remember his name that was a year ago after all. I should have written it down.

There was an E-30 baur there last year as well with a M-3ish bodykit for a total of 3 baurs at that fest. I thought it was cool to go to a show with 2000+ Same make cars and there was only one other in the whole place like mine....

[tomscat1]

He is of Armenian heritage I don't remember his name that was a year ago after all. I should have written it down.

There was an E-30 baur there last year as well with a M-3ish bodykit for a total of 3 baurs at that fest. I thought it was cool to go to a show with 2000+ Same make cars and there was only one other in the whole place like mine....

Since you mention an E30 that was kinda "M-ish".
This one was on the cover of Roundel, apparently.... maybe November 2009. That looks like an M badge there on the trunk. ??!! Has anyone seen this car around? Bimmerfest, perhaps?


I found it on this blog:
http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/search/label/BMW

Scroll down a bit on the May 22 2011 post. Lots of cool stuff there... check the sidebar!
Some of the pics of vanity plates look familiar... they were in the Bimmerfest pics posted in here last week.

[Baur]

I think Jeff means this one:

B40259.

And it's been too long since I've checked the forum... will try to keep up with you guys and help out where I can.

EDIT:Oh, no, a TC2 on the first post of a TC1-page...


Gr Jeroen

[tomscat1]

Hi Jeroen! Welcome back!

That one (B40259) certainly seems to fit Jeff's description.

Do you know the one that was on the cover of Roundel.... With the "M" Badge in post #300? We are coming across more and more TC2s.

Thanks.

[Baur]

Nope, I don't think I saw that car earlier. At least someone was very creative...that "top-down"-cover ("persenning" in good German language) will never fit tight.

Gr Jeroen

[rudy92]

i have a picture of the m'ish baur, its also in the video i made. except the angel i took the picture does not show that its a baur, anyways its the first i guess u could say its the first red e30 m3 u see

[AlaskaBimmer]

I think Jeff means this one:

B40259.

And it's been too long since I've checked the forum... will try to keep up with you guys and help out where I can.

Gr Jeroen

That's the one.

[tomscat1]

Once again, I am amazed at you guys.

There are a finite number of BMW Baurs here in the US, and we continue to close in on them! This car is a good case in point: one particular car gets spotted and mentioned in this thread, and three different guys post pics of it within a couple of days!.

One guy is in California, spotted the car this year.
One guy is in Alaska, spotted it LAST year.
One guy is in The Netherlands. No idea how long he has known about it. We ALL know who THIS guy is.

Amazing. A testimony to your interest and enthusiasm.

Great work, fellas!

We still don't know the owner's name, and we haven't dragged him in here yet.... but I have a feeling that we will before too long. My hat is off to you guys!

[AlaskaBimmer]

The guy with the red TC2 is also Armenian and friends with the guy of the other baur, THey were parked right across from each other last year.

If anyone in here has a DMV hookup in California we could find out who it is....My Source here can only pull Alaska plates.

[tomscat1]

This is from conkitchen's thread elsewhere in this forum, in case you missed it:
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum....php?t=1660159

1979 Baur 320i For SALE assoted history
Hey Gang,

I had every intention of just driving this thing for the summer and not really care but just enjoy it as a driver.

However the case, I just do not have time to continue dreaming about this [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]car[/COLOR][/COLOR].

This is a feeler for seriously interested parties. It will be for [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]sale[/COLOR][/COLOR] to the right person. This car has been discussed by Tomscat and Jeroen over and over again. It also is currently wearing the ex-Michael Baur ID tag. You can see the discussions on Baur spotting and here on the forum. That is the assorted history thread.

It comes complete and ready to drive as is, but needs finishing and tweaks to be completely reliable.

Highlights:
Many extra parts come with the car that are too numerous to list.
Kamie body kit with front & [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]rear [COLOR=blue !important]spoilers[/COLOR][/COLOR][/COLOR]
3 [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]sport[/COLOR][/COLOR] sport wheel
VDO 3-gauge pod on dash
Bosch ambers
4 speed
2.0 litre
13" Mesh wheels with 205 60 13" tires
Eruo center console
Seats are in very good condition
Top material in good no rip condition
Bilsteins
Much more

Obvious bad:
needs exhaust gasket at header pipe
Tires have flat spots on them from sitting forever.
wiper [COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]motor[/COLOR][/COLOR] needs replace-have spare
rear window is creamed and cracked.
Paint and body is fair.

Anyways,

The pictures are from my phone and I do not have others at this time. The car lives in Sacramento yet I am in Oakland so no running out to the garage to snap off a few images just yet.

Again this is a prelisting ([COLOR=blue !important][COLOR=blue !important]ebay[/COLOR][/COLOR], CL, BAT or wherever) for the legion to find first.

You can call me to discuss.

If we can do an easy transaction that is worth a few less dollars for the effort.

I am very easy to deal with and so should you.

$3,500

(NineTwo5) 4three7-88sevenseven

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You may also recall these pics from elsewhere in the present thread:

72565 323i (ex Michael Baur, wrecked)



Nice job on the Baur. Good Luck with your sale, conkitchen!

[tomscat1]

I am informed by Jeff (BMWtyro) in the E30 forum that there were at least 3 Baurs at the Vintage this weekend: two were E30s, and one was a 2002.

Did anyone see any E21 Baurs there? I know HarryPR was unable to attend this year.

Any pics of ANY Baurs would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!