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Simply the Best Mike Jiggle Explores One of the All-Time Great Production Racing Cars, the 1989 BMW M3 E30 BAVARIAN MOTOR WORKS HITS THE CENTURY MARQUE: 100 YEARS OF BMW V i n t a g e R a c e c a R The International Authority on Vintage and Historic Racecars AUGUST 201 6 a u g u s t 2 0 1 6 6 1 0 2 t s u g u a Simply t he BeSt We test drive the 1989 BMW M3 E30 FEATURE LEGENDS SPEAK INTERVIEW BMW’s Motorsport Heart & soul Belatedly Following in dad’s Footsteps trans-am King tom Kendall—Part 2 R a c VOLUME 19, ISSUE 8 d a USA $9.95, UK £6.50 o R www.vintageracecar.com e g a t n i V ViNtAGe RACeCAR 3 VINTAGE VOLUME 19, ISSUE 8 COLUMNS 26 AUGUST 2 01 6 Patrick Depailler www.vintageracecar.com 26 Heroes: Robert Newman remembers how the Frenchman’s devil- The International Authority on Vintage and Historic Racecars may-care attitude often served him not so well. 28 Legends Speak : Followin ginFather’s Footsteps Rich MacDonald explains how he came to drive one of the Cobras his late father Dave raced to victory. 30 Art History: “1975 IMSA BMW CSL” Frederic Dams captures one of BMW’s best, the 3.0 CSL raced in 1975 by Brian Redman and Ronnie Peterson . 64 Greatest Racecars: Bentley 3-Liter Duncan Wiltshire explains why his lifelong affection for Bentleys led him to select this particular example. 28 68 Nev’s Notes: The Stuck Saga - Part 1 Neville Hay revisits the career of the German hillclimb star and father of a successful racing son . DEPARTMENTS 6 First Turn: Loaners 8 Fast Exposure 10 News Brief 16 Hidden Treasure: 1964 Brabham BT8 18 Mail Box 20 Time Capsule: August in Racing History 52 Market Guide: Under 2-Liter GT 54 Chris Willows Collection 42 54 Photo Galleries: Mallala, Road America, Monaco, Summit Point, Pau, Barber, Silverstone, Indianapolis FEATURES22 Interview: Tom Kendall - Part 2 32 John Zimmermann completes the discussion with Tom 62 Product Review th Kendall about the highlights from his racing career. 63 Web Excusive : 100 Indianapolis 500 65 Market Place 32 Profile: Simply The Best Mike Jiggle explores one of the all-time great production racing cars, the 1989 BMW M3 E30. 42 Feature: BMW’s Motorsport Heart & Soul Chris Willows tracks the remarkable post-war Mike Matune development and ascension of BMW’s production-based racing efforts . ON THE COVER THIS MONTH: 1989 BMW M3 E30 Photo: Peter Collins Kary Jiggle www.facebook.com/vintageracecar 4 VINTAGE RACECAR VINTAGE RACECAR 5 VINTAGE ™ FIRST TURN ™ Loaners by Casey Annis, Editor August of 1965, with a new “Sonic 1” jet car PUBLISHER ⁄ ED I TOR Casey M. Annis ave you ever in the works, Breedlove agreed to loan the [email protected] temporarily Spirit of America to Chicago’s Museum of EUROPEAN EDITOR loaned someone Science and Industry. According to Mike Jiggle [email protected] your car, had them keep Breedlove: “At the time we loaned it to H ASSOCIATE ED I TOR it for 50 years, cut it in them, I thought maybe they’ll have it for a John Zimmermann half, weld it back together year or two. I had no idea it would end up [email protected] SOUTH PACIFIC EDITOR and then force you to take it back? Yeah, me there for 50 years.” According to Breedlove, Patrick Quinn neither. Which is why the tale of American he and the museum had an oral agreement [email protected] ITALIAN EDITOR Land Speed pioneer Craig Breedlove and his that the car would be returned to him, Robert Newman famed “Spirit of America” is so bizarre. whenever it was pulled from the museum’s [email protected] In order to fully appreciate this strange display. However, that didn’t happened until GRAPHIC DESIGNERS Joon Lim tale, we need to go back to 1959. From 1959 last July, when the museum notified him [email protected] to 1963 Craig Breedlove worked on the that they were sending the car back to him. Brad Jansen construction of a jet-powered car that he But when the car returned home to him [email protected] CONTRIBUTING WRITERS intended to use to break the Land Speed in California, Breedlove was crestfallen to see James Beckett, Sir Stirling Moss, Art Evans, Robert Newman, Record. Working out of a laughably tiny, the condition of it. It was beat up, with Hal Crocker, Mike Lawrence, Michael Stucker, Peter Collins, John Murn, John Wright, Keith Booker, Mike Jiggle, Willem single-car garage behind his father’s Culver panels either missing or ill fitting, not to Oosthoek, Carl Goodwin, Mark R. Brinker, J. Michael City, California home, Breedlove designed mention all the places were visitors had Hemsley, Alan Boe, Karl Ludvigsen, Tom Stahler PHOTOGRAPHERS and built the 47-foot-long land-based missile, etched their names or comments into the Allen Kuhn, Peter Collins, Thierry Lesparre, Steve Oom, which was powered by a surplus J47 j et engine delicate aluminum paneling. But perhaps Hal Crocker, Pete Lyons, Ferret Fotographics, Dennis Gray, Pete Luongo, Jim Williams, Mark Scheuern, Roger Dixon, Fred that Breedlove purchased for the lofty sum of worst of all, when he looked inside Sickler, Keith Booker, Chuck Andersen, Pete Austin, Klemantaski Collection, Brian Green, Michael Casey DiPleco, $500! Yet, as improbable as it may seem Breedlove discovered that in order to get the Jim Hat field, Paul Bonner, JR Schabowski considering such humble beginnings, car upstairs in the museum, the staff had U.S. ADVERTISING Breedlove and his Spirit of America turned up sawed it in half(!) to make it fit into the (562) 493-0 737 at the Bonneville Salt Flats in 1963, where freight elevator, and then done a shoddy job Tom Stahler Breedlove became the first human to break of welding it all back together. After having [email protected] EUROPEAN ADVERTISING the 400 mph barrier on land. Then, the the car looked at by a restoration shop, Mike Jiggle following year, Breedlove returned and Breedlove estimates that it will take nearly tel/fax: (0) 1604 479628, mobile: (0) 7876 500494 [email protected] pushed that mark to an even more $400,000 to get the Spirit of America back AUSTRALIA/NEW ZEALAND astonishing 526 mph—but not without in the shape it was in when he dropped off ADVERTISING Patrick Quinn consequences. Finishing a run at more than it in Chicago, in 1965. While Breedlove had tel: (61) 2 4567 7380, mobile: (61) 0417 673 065 560 mph, Breedlove deployed his parachutes hoped the museum’s insurance would cover [email protected] only to have the primary chute immediately the repairs, the museum refused to make a OFFICE ADMINISTRATOR Lynne Gehrman torn away, which in turn sucked the backup claim, resulting in him having to take the [email protected] chute away with it! With no way to stop the museum to court. “I just assumed that an Main Office (North America): Parabolica Publishing, LLC Spirit of America, Breedlove raced across the institution as large as the Chicago museum Vintage Racecar/Vintage Roadcar 5212 Katella Ave., Suite 206 salt until he came to a series of shallow was insured and they would take care of Los Alamitos, CA 90720, USA evaporation ponds at the end of the course. fixing the damage,” Breedlove recently tel: (562) 493-0 73 7, fax: (562) 493-0 71 5 The rocket car skipped once like a stone over commented. “They had it for 50 years and European Office: Vintage Racecar/Vintage Roadcar the water before burying itself nose first. obviously charged admission for 50 years, Moulton Park Business Centre Red House Road When rescue crews arrived on the scene, they and I didn’t get anything for it. I thought it Northampton NN3 6AQ, England found a very wet Breedlove standing by the was reasonable to ask them to fix the tel/fax: (0) 1604 479628 side of the pond. Before they could ask how damages done. That car was my whole life. South Pacific Office: Parabolica Publishing Pty. Ltd. he was Breedlove uttered the now famous Everything that I ever did was on the 116 Warks Hill Road Kurrajong Heights, NSW 2758, Australia line, “…and now for my next trick, I’ll light foundation of building that car and setting tel: ( 61) 2 4567 7380, mobile: ( 61) 0 41 7 673 065 myself on fire!” the records. That car really meant a lot to SUBSCRIPTIONS Despite the dramatic end to his run, me.” 1 yr. (12 issues) $54.95 (US), 2 yrs. (24 issues) $89.95 Foreign Rates: Please refer to www.vintageracecar.com Breedlove had set another Land Speed So the moral of this sad story is if you ISSN 1535-556X Record and by so doing became an plan on loaning your pride and joy to a Copyright © 2 01 6 by Vintage Racecar/Parabolica Publishing, LLC., All rights reserved. American hero and an international star. show, shop, museum or even a friend, make Reproduction without per mis sion is prohibited. And, for its part, the Spirit of America was sure you have something in writing, in terms Every effort is made to ensure that the in for ma tion enclosed is true and ac cu rate. How ev er, we must disclaim any li a bil i ty for the timeliness, use, pulled from the briny soup, fixed up and of who is responsible for any damage in ter pre ta tion, ac cu ra cy and completeness of the in for ma tion con tained within. Unsolicited contributions are welcome, but should be used for promotional appearances by incurred.
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