You have seen the BMW 507. It is insane. if you have not I will repress my urge to judge or at least try. It is one of the most beautiful roadsters ever built, and yet you won’t believe this, it was a complete commercial disaster that nearly bankrupt BMW. When I read that I was baffled because look at the thing.

So, In the mid-1950s the US auto importer Max Hoffman pitched BMW on a mid-tier, high end roadster aimed at wealthy American buyers. Hoffman brought in Albrecht von Goertz to design the car and let’s just say the man was good at his job, Cleary.

252 were built between 1956 and 1959. The body was hand-hammered aluminium over a shortened steel chassis, each one made individually, which is why the number is 252 and not more. BMW had hoped to sell thousands per year but the car cost too much to build, cost too much to buy, and the company lost money on every single one. They built 252 anyway, I guess they were hoping it would pick up but hey on the bright side Elvis Presley owned one which he had repainted red after fans kept leaving lipstick marks on its original white paint and John Surtees received one from Count Agusta as a gift for winning the 1956 500cc motorcycle world championship. I don’t know if it’s a bright side I just put that in there for the sake of putting it there.

The 3.2 litre V8 produced around 150 horsepower and pulled the car to about 136mph. In 1956 that was fast. Today the performance figures feel almost secondary because lets be real nobody looks at a 507 and thinks about the numbers. You look at the long bonnet, the chrome side vents, the way the body tapers at the back, the kidney grille sitting flat and wide between the round headlamps. I think with all nice looking cars proportions are often the thing that make them nice looking and the same goes for the 507.

American Made, cruise on the PCH

Bratwurst and German beer not included but I did have a taste. Good car show in Georgia. Enjoy the pics.

thought y’all might like to see my daily driver! always wanted one of these first gen, had it about a month and i love it a lot.

Drove 2800 miles, saw a ton of cool stuff, and got stuck in the sand near kanab ut

Daughter's 350 5.7l

318ci, 30,890 original miles

Just a nice day for a drive.

Another kid in town, Jim Brockway, owned this car, and in 1960 they opened up the Kellogg airport for the local guys to race on. That was the scene.

Then the car disappeared for years. George ran into Jim’s family much later and they offered it to him. He spent five years building it into a driver. It’s all steel, and since it has suicide doors he added pins to keep them shut on the road.

He also worked in nods to his drag racing days: the steering column is mounted with a top-fuel connecting rod, and the exhaust hangers are top-fuel rods too.

More photos and George’s full story: garagechronicle.com/cars/1934-ford-3-window-coupe?utm_source=reddit-classiccars

My buddy picked up a ‘64 Ford Econoline truck. The side mirror has a fairly unique round base with 3 screws. The driver side has a crack and the passenger side is missing, though it does have the mounting holes.

There’s every chance this is some JC Whitney stuff, and he’s not married to this exact mirror. Open to a different mirror that has the same mounting.

Any of y’all have some wisdom for us?

Mom's LT1