1973 BMW E9 CSL | Projects

1973 BMW E9 CSL

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The Project

This beautiful 1973 E9 3.0 CSL came to the Carrosserie workshop for a full restoration. There was a lot of rust and many of the aluminium panels were perforated.

Updates

The engine was removed and all affected panels as well to remove all of the rust. New panels including door skins were fitted and then the whole car resprayed using Noval Clearcoat. The polish as we say is already in the Spraygun!

There was also a misfire that was traced to a faulty pressure sensor. The 1973 3.0 CSL (or CSi) was fitted with Bosch D-Jetronic electronic fuel injection. Increasing power from 180HP with carburettors to 200BHP with injection. We had to source parts directly from Bosch in Germany who are still able to maintain these systems.

This gorgeous E9 is now ready to face the next 50 years! It’s owner will be taking the car back to London. A very fine automobile to navigate the capital in.

History

The CSL model came to the UK in June 1973, and 500 examples were imported upto mid 1974. The CSL was a homologation special to enable BMW to use these lightweight cars (based on the CSi road car) in competition, for example the European Touring Car Championship.

All coupes were built by Karmann, who were based in Osnabruck, the mechanical parts being shipped direct from Munich. Some 30 years after production ended, many parts are still available from BMW to keep these classic E9 series coupes on the road.

Friendly, helpful, extremely knowledgeable, patient enough to explain the processes and reasons for doing things and highlighted even more how approachable the team are. They tried to accommodate our needs and requests to get our beloved old riley back on the road as soon as possible despite the ups and downs that were thrown our way and into the teams path! We could not have wished to deal with a more personable company after encountering some other teams that really made a botch of stuff, seemed uncommitted and were not professional at all. Carrosserie as a team were totally the opposite . . would we recommend them ? ABSOLUTELY !!! We would not go anywhere else now, THANK YOU TO Steve, Neil, Graham and Nicola . . Oh and Karen who spilled the beans about the the birthday surprised to my partner (whose car it is ) . but made the experience all the more special when a bottle of wine was presented as well as a treat to Simon for his birthday AND made it all the more worth dealing with the team ! THANK YOU AGAIN !!!

My car was the subject of some body and paint repairs here in Spring 2024, to address corrosion plus some substandard paintwork. An annual service was also carried out. There was good responsive communications, advice, and attention to detail throughout, to ensure a high quality, durable result, with the final paintwork being indistinguishable from factory finish, and easily better than any franchised dealership repairs. If you are invested in your classic car, want to make it last, with an exemplary finish to be proud of, then you need look no further.

I can't recommend Carrosserie highly enough, the service was exemplary from start to finish and the workmanship is second to none. I highly recommend giving the team a call for any work you need doing to your classic car, no matter what it is, you will not be disappointed!