1949 Veritas BMW Rennsport Featured At RM Sotheby’s “Essen 2019”
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RM Sotheby’s will offer the 1949 Veritas BMW Rennsport car in a featured lot at their upcoming auction, “Essen 2019” that will be held from April 11-12, 2019, in Essen, Germany. The pre-auction estimate of this unique car is € 450,000 - € 550, 000.&
1949 Veritas BMW Rennsport Featured At RM Sotheby’s “Essen 2019”
RM Sotheby’s will offer the 1949 Veritas BMW Rennsport car in a featured lot at their upcoming auction, “Essen 2019” that will be held from April 11-12, 2019, in Essen, Germany. The pre-auction estimate of this unique car is € 450,000 - € 550, 000. “In terms of engineering output — and specifically racing car production — the immediate post-war landscape in Germany was unrecognizable from before the outbreak of hostilities. The domination of the mighty Mercedes-Benz and Auto Union teams in Grand Prix racing in the 1930s was but a distant memory, and the Allies’ post-war ‘industrial disarmament’ plan for Germany had seen industrial production slashed to roughly half the level of 1938, with widespread shortages existing in raw materials, facilities, and labor. In the context of motor racing — and in direct contrast to the seemingly limitless development budgets of the 1930s — Germany immediately resolved to adopt a ‘make do and mend’ philosophy, with the pre-war BMW 328 engine offering a faint glimmer of hope to any aspiring engineers,” states the auction house. Some of the highlighting features of this car are that it was a previous competitor in Plateau C of the Monaco Grand Prix Historique, and it has been hugely eligible and immaculately prepared — ready to compete in vintage racing and rallying. Further commenting on the journey of this car, RM Sotheby’s writes, “In 1978, Jurgen Sinkel, a respected historic racer living in Dusseldorf, found this car in Southern France in poor condition. At this time, it was sporting a Talbot engine and a French Cotal transmission. Fuel filler caps were found next to the windshield mountings for side-mounted fuel tanks, a Veritas trademark. He removed the existing engine and gearbox, and installed a Bristol engine and transmission in their place. Thereafter, ownership passed to the celebrated Anglo-Iranian collector Fuad Majzub, but the car remained in Dusseldorf until at least 1990, and was later transported to renowned BMW and Bristol specialists TT Workshops Ltd. of Westbury, Wiltshire, for a complete restoration, which included painstaking recreation of Veritas RS bodywork.” And the auction house further adds that it was purchased in 1995 by German enthusiast Claas Werner and the very year its restoration began in October that lasted till the Spring of 1998, at a cost of almost £100,000. “As with many 1950s sports racing cars — and particularly those powered by the wonderfully tractable BMW engine — chassis no. 85123 remains an extremely versatile and usable car, equally at home on either road or track,” states the auction house. https://www.blouinartinfo.com/ Founder: Louise Blouin Read more
