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Formula 3 race from 1948

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Location: Erfurt, Germany
Condition: Used
Make: Oldsmobile
Model: BMW LTE
Trim: yes
Year: 1948
Mileage: 200
VIN: 002
Engine size: 600
Drive type: race
Vehicle Title: Rebuilt, Rebuildable & Reconstructed

1948 Oldsmobile BMW LTE Description

The year is 1946 and the war had just ended, When three people came together to start a joint project. The driver "Lehder" who successfully won before the war on BMW and had to witness the tragic death of Bernd Rosemeyer as marshals, began, with his colleagues, Automotive Master "Tarnow", and the engineer Eckardt constructing a race car.
The people longed for the war for sporting challenges, but were workshops destroyed and survived only in the back of Their minds the victories of Silver Arrows and Auto Union.
THEREFORE one grabbed everything You Could get and built motorcycle engines in a car chassis to race again can.

Until 1948, some difficulties had to be overcome, but the success which inevitable.
Ferdi Lehder launched on the bulkhead course in the formula free class. At the sametime then sat Schorsch Meier at the wheel of a BMW Veritas and Ferdi Lehder finished a respectable 4th place!
The car is a piece of history and reflects the first Attempts again to take root after the war in the race. In 1949 what purely Stated in classes, the car wurde the Formula 3 and Ferdi Lehder wurde German champion!
After a clever deception staged action, the car which sold on the sector border of the GDR to Eisenach to Bobby Kohlrausch.
There he what, completely Call reworked by former employees of Auto Union racing department and to meet with the help of an MG-Zoller compressor for maximum demand.
For the regulations of the new Formula 3, hey what unfortunately changed back, Because It could no longer charged wants. Until the 60s were driven this car racing silent.
The car is restored immediately bootable and is driven back and back to Classic racing events. A rare piece of history, with a moving past!
Private sale without guarantee or warranty.
The car must be picked up in Germany in 6 weeks in Thuringia,this is in the middle of Germany.
I can help for transport.

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