We were recently talking about the BMW 507 (or some of us were anyway) and I promised (threatened?) once again to scan some of my photos from a BMW Deutschland veteran rally when the FIZ was opened. Well, I have actually gotten round to doing it this time!

There are some parallels with Heuer and BMW. For a lot of people, BMW probably only came to their general consciousness with the Neue Klasse cars of 1962, in a kind of parallel with the launch of the Heuer Autavia in the same year. However, both companies have a heritage stretching back much further than that.

I've plucked a few favourites from a few decades to show off the variety we're talking about - hopefully at least a few of you will find it interesting!

1930s

BMW's car production started in 1929 in fact, but those were just badge-engineered Austin Sevens, more or less. As the decade progressed, they produced more distinctive cars culminating in the race-proven 328.

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