Trying to find where my car is from

[brockzila]

Hello gents.

I have been looking in to my car and have discovered that it has been imported in to nz in 1987.

I have had a look at the vin number and I have found it's basic info. Built 1/10/1980. Manual rhd for the euro market.

Now here is where I'm confused.

Being rhd for the euro market it should be English?? But the Windows all have a rego etched in the Windows.

Ew8307h is what's on the Windows. This is.not a English rego number.

Can any one help with identifying what market it is from

It may be Aussie but I can't find where it was sold new.

I'm happy to send vin details if someone can help.


Thanks in advance.

[uwbuurman]

With your vinnumber you can get the details from BMW Classic. Costs about 110 dollar, to get a certificate containing how the car was first delivered, what options and tho whom the facory delivery was, including adress.

[brockzila]

With your vinnumber you can get the details from BMW Classic. Costs about 110 dollar, to get a certificate containing how the car was first delivered, what options and tho whom the facory delivery was, including adress.

Thanks for that but.that's like 220 nz.dollars and I'm not prepared to spend that just to know where it was first sold.

[Jeroen]

Most likely to be UK spec indeed, and who knows what was changed on the car over time, like the glass. Perhaps tinted glass was retrofitted? And did they have different glass spec for UK cars back then?

[brockzila]

Been looking on the interwebs at plate information.

I have come to the conclusion that it was first registered in Singapore.

Not surprising. Many euro cars are/were imported from there. Bmw were very expensive here so it was not uncommon to import them from Singapore. New an e21 was x2 what a ford escort cost.

[Duracel79]

I've emailed bmw classic before to get build date information for E9's and 02's and they usually respond with build date, colour and date delivered to which country.

This was the response I got back in 2015:

From: info.grouparchiv@bmwgroup.com [mailto:info.grouparchiv@bmwgroup.com]
Sent: 09 February 2015 14:41
To: ## #####
Subject: AW: E9 build date

Dear Mr #####,

Thank you for your email.

The BMW 3.0 CSi rhd VIN ####### was manufactured on January 24th, 1974 and delivered on June 25th, 1974 to BMW Concessionaires G.B. Ltd. The original colour was Polaris metallic, paint code 060.

We hope this information is helpful for you.

Yours sincerely,

Julia Oberndörfer
BMW Group Archiv

WAY Group
Alfred-Arndt-Str. 2
80807 München
URL: http://www.waygroup.de
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WAY GmbH
Geschäftsführerin: Manuela Freudenberg
Sitz und Registergericht: München HRB 164739
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Erreichbarkeit bei der BMW Group Classic:
Tel.: +49 (0) 89-382-68281
E-Mail: info.grouparchiv@bmwgroup.com
Gutenbergstraße 25, 85748 Garching

[uwbuurman]

Cool, they do have this info indeed, like I said. Nice to know this about the CSi, btw, Ben.