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Originally Posted by SickFinga  Here are some stats for the Club Sport
200 cars built (none were built for Canada)
1st Club Sport was built on September 11 1995 (2 cars built on that day) VIN AM53293
Last Club Sport built on October 13 1995 (13 Club Sports built on that day) VIN AM53731
94 Painted in Bright Red (314)
106 Painted in Jet Black (668)
There were 3 options; Sun roof, Premium sound, LSD
15 cars without sun roof.
45 cars without premium sound
86 cars without LSD |
Did some research. There were 85 cars without LSD, all your other numbers are correct. The "main" run of cars started on 9/25/1995 with AM53460 and ended on 10/13/1995 with AM53731.
106 cars were Schwarz 2
94 cars were Hellrot
85 cars without LSD (47 black, 38 red)
45 cars without premium sound (27 black, 18 red)
15 cars without sunroof (8 black, 7 red)
There were no cars built with none of the three options or just premium sound. Five had only the LSD and twenty-four had only the sunroof. The most common option combination was all three (LSD, sunroof, & premium sound) with 84.
Edit: Car AM53487 seems to be an anomaly. Originally I hadn't scrolled all the way down the options list (it's split in two) and so I didn't see the M Sport Package option. It appears to be a US-spec Clubsport that was built for delivery to Great Britain. It includes several options not normally seen on US-spec cars (manually adjustable steering column, headlight aim control, warning triangle/first aid kit, & OBC V). I'm curious if it was originally purchased by a service member and where it is today.
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Originally Posted by dave45056 The question is:
If there were only 200 of them made, yet the VIN numbers span 438 units, how can you be sure you have a REAL Club Sport and not a car that's within the range and been modified?
I know BMW has a SA code for Club Sport... It's 768 Individual Series "Club Sport". I've just never heard of a ti with that code associated with it. |
There were regular, non-Clubsport, ti's built within the Clubsport VIN range. Easiest way to tell if you have a real Clubsport is to run the VIN through a BMW VIN decoder. The car should be Schwarz 2 or Hellrot, red millpoint interior and there should be 3 particular options on the car, P337A - M Sports Package, S481A - Sports seat (not CS exclusive), and S704A - M Sports suspension (also not CS exclusive).
Justin