Vintage

Where the reputation was forged.

Before M became a badge, BMW was building its reputation the hard way: on the racetrack. In 1970, a BMW 2002 ti won the inaugural Nürburgring 24 Hours, with BMWs occupying nine of the first ten finishing positions. Two years later, BMW Motorsport GmbH was born, and the legendary 3.0 CSL soon became one of Europe's dominant touring cars, collecting championship titles and major endurance victories at Sebring and Daytona.

Then came another generation of warriors. The E21 320 was transformed into a radical Group 5 machine, eventually producing more than 500 horsepower in turbocharged form. The E28 carried the fight into the Group A era with a 528i victory at the 1982 24 Hours of Spa, while the E24 635 CSi became an endurance legend of its own, winning Spa three times and the Nürburgring 24 Hours twice.

The 2002. E3. E9. E12. E21. E24. E28.

Mechanical cars from a mechanical age, when racing was about engines, chassis, brakes, balance and the person behind the wheel. These were the generations that fought the battles, earned the victories and helped establish the motorsport bloodline every BMW that followed would inherit.

Now, the story is yours.

Bavarian Endurance Battle created the Vintage category to bring these generations together once again, this time with a new grid, a new challenge and new stories waiting to be written.

Bring that vintage BMW warrior you saved. Every warrior deserves another chance to conquer glory. Bring your team, your passion and your determination, because the cars that helped forge BMW's motorsport legacy don't belong spending the rest of their lives behind ropes or beneath car covers.

They belong at the track, performing, devouring asphalt, stealing glory from younger cars and reminding every generation that followed exactly where the bloodline began.

Vintage doesn't ask for respect. It imposes it.

And when one of these old warriors appears in the mirrors of a BMW thirty or forty years younger, there is only one statement left to make: