This car just looks expensive. I don’t know if it’s because of its resemblance to the “Batmobile” BMW’s like the early 1970s CSL 3.0 or because it’s just different enough from the popular BMW 2002 series to be exotic. Or maybe it’s the shape of the car itself, the flatter and bigger look it offers as opposed to the 2002. This 1967 BMW CS 2000 Coupe just has that certain something. And it can be yours here on eBay for figuring out the reserve, which is surely well in excess of its current $11,211 bid. If you snag it, the BMW is waiting in Pleasanton, CA.
This series, the New Class Coupe range, was not built in huge quantity, with 9999 CS Coupes being offered over a period of 1965-69. The engine was the M10 four-cylinder backed up by a four-speed manual gearbox. The car had 120 horsepower delivered by its dual-carb setup.
This particular car is apparently in running condition, though it has not been regularly used of late, instead sitting in a museum. The ad recommends reconditioning prior to driving, and that would include fuel system maintenance, brake maintenance, cooling system scrutiny, and a look at anyplace where a rubber hose finds itself. The seller provides a lot of photos, but unfortunately, he puts the responsibility for determining the condition back on the buyer, telling readers to look at the photos rather than asking for clarification. How’s that supposed to work regarding the body? White paint hides bodywork well. You can see some damage at the base of the driver’s door. The engine is said to run well, though it’s doubtful that its 2000+ miles are original. But nothing is said about that listed “fact.” Under hood looks considerably worse than does the body or the interior. The underneath looks clean but perhaps like it’s been undercoated or primered. For a car that’s as compelling as this, it really would be nicer to hear from the seller what’s there rather than having to rely on images. It remains to be seen, in the bidding, whether buyers adapt well to this silence.
The one thing that’s a bit odd from a collectability standpoint is the 6TQB California license plate. That means that the car was licensed somewhere around 2008, which could mean it was off the road and had to be re-tagged, or it might indicate that the car was imported from another state. No big deal, but that plate won’t look handsome at a car show. A repro black plate would do much more tidily. All of that said, this is a bomb-looking coupe, a car that I’d be more inclined to drive than many 60s collectibles, and that’s my era.
I came across one of these back in the 90’s. The face of this car is very polarizing and I remember saying to myself it’s just so odd that I kind of like it. I also liked it because even back in the 90’s the 3.0CSL coupes were expensive however these were still obtanium. These cars love to rust and this one looks really solid but now they are starting to move into the unobtainium category. Funny story. Last week I saw a new BMW that I thought was ugly and then it dawned on me that BMW was drawing design elements from the 2000CS. I took a picture and sent it to some car friends.
I love the hubcaps. Keep them, they’re original.
Something about those headlights, they don’t work for me. Nice ride though. CS, club sport if I remember right?
That car has European headlights. We got 4 round headlights in the US. It’s definitely a look you either like or hate
And I love the headlamp design.Very nice BMW
The BMW E9 which we know as the ‘Coupe’ had 4 headlights, Europe and here. They came out in 1968 as the 2800CS, 3.0CS followed in 1970, 3.0CSi in 1972, I believe. The 2000C and 2000CS had the awkward one-piece headlights. These cars came out in 1965 and were the E9 predecessors
Looks like the offspring from a second generation Corvair’s hookup with a Type 34 Karmann Ghia.
The nose bear received not the attention as the refined CS and
injection models. Karmann built all of them by hand so welding
or replacement panels are not avail due to the tricky manufac-
turing. The 2.5 2.8 and 3.0 are, as BMW states, “a car we built
but as we built it we never thought that it sometimes receives
so much attention from collectors”. Well done this one BMW!
Much better and pro quality as the garbage they built the past
two decades.
IMO they got off to a bad start with one of the few sour notes on the original 1600 Neue Klasse sedan being the tacked-on looking kidneys, when they had the ’59 Pontiac there to copy – why not make each half of the grille, each incorporating one side’s headlight(s), the “kidney”?
Here they tried something different and it didn’t work. They didn’t try anything different for another 20 years.
Things were often a bit contentious between Pontiac and BMW designers regarding their similar nose-styling signatures, the former trying not to look quite like double-kidneys, the latter trying not to look like twin-nostrils.
These cars were known as “Sleepy Eyes” (for obvious reasons!)
Whatever you think of the kidneys, the body as a whole is gorgeous. The current trend of idenitfying a car as a “museum find” is as vague as a “barn find”. A real, not for profit, open to the public, museum, or, someone’s private collection? And, does it matter anyway?
I’ve always absolutely loved the successor 3.0cs, and even enjoyed owning a silver Euro spec ’72 for two years back in the early ’80s.
On the other hand, I’ve never liked these at all. It’s not that I don’t like them as much, it’s that I really dislike them. To each his own.
I’ve had four of these. From the windshield back, they are absolutely gorgeous: maybe the perfect greenhouse? The nose treatment was, indeed, polarizing….the later 2800CS and 3.0CS were “nose perfect”. The 2000CS was very expensive back in the mid 60’s: compare their new price to an XKE or Corvette. One that I owned had a single barrel carb and automatic transmission (a simple ‘2000C” versus the “CS” with two double barrel Solexes). The automatic car wasn’t much fun, but as serial number 000015, I couldn’t turn it down. Is it still out there?
You could see these in the many 1960’s cold war spy plot movies that were filmed in East Berlin and the Autobahn scenes coming over from West Germany.
Gorgeous interior ! Awesome car.
“Batmobile” ?!…..nah, looks like a corvair to me! 🤷🏼♂️
Ended:Nov 06, 2022 , 1:48PM
Current bid:
US $25,101.00
Reserve not met
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Price:
US $39,995.00