ALPINA (Grp. 2) from Rear with 13"X15" Wheels/Tires

I have some other posts here about the various ALPINA 3-Piece Wheels that have been offered by them over the years, my last post being those wheels that go with the Grp. 2 car- some of those pictures show the wheel mounted with AVON racing slicks.  As a point of reference, this is what the tires look like on the car.  Pretty crazy looking - if you didn't  know better you might think it was a BMW 2002 drag car.

ALPINA 3-Piece Racing Wheels (Part 3)

OK, now this is my set of 15" ALPINA 3-Piece Racing wheels. These go with my ALPINA Grp. 2 Race car. The centers are cast magnesium, this particular wheel is a front wheel and measures 11"x 15". You will note it has the "old style" ALPINA logo.

Wowza!, that is one "deep" wheel. 13"x15" rear.

Automotive artwork, I am not the greatest photographer, this is a pretty cool pic.

Rear wheel with AVON racing slick (23.5x12.5x15). Back in the day the ALPINA car ran on DUNLOP tyres, sorry to say those are NLA (AVON makes the ONLY tire that fits this wheel).

"DICHTRING'S" (or "O" rings). These are BBS O-Rings that fit between the wheel center and the rim halves. You have to have this part in order to seal the rim around the tire - by the way, because the rim halves are "flat" (no tire bead) they literally have to be assembled around the tire-very tedious process and time consuming = expensive.

One of the ALPINA 3-Piece wheels assembled with tire.

ALPINA 3-Piece Racing Wheels (Part 2)

This is a wheel center from the set I "used" to own (now in Europe). Note the older style ALPINA graphic compared with the wheel center further down in the post. I was lucky, I had the correct wheel bolts.

This set is part of a set that goes with a '72 ALPINA A4/s in Sweden. Again, early "ALPINA" graphic. It appears at some time that someone probably painted the center while the wheel was assembled as you can see the black spray paint marks on the wheel half to the left.

This was the next iteration of the ALPINA 3 - Piece Racing Wheel. Personally I think I like the first version best, although this version appears to at least have a "stronger" appearance - whether it actually does or not I can't say. You can see that they cast the ALPINA logo in opposing sections of the wheel (and it is the more modern of the ALPINA logo's-see my notes above). This wheel was largely made in 13" and 14" diameters and were typically cast in magnesium. They may have had an aluminum option for this wheel as well. I had a set of these once-the one wheel center I photographed is at the top of the page, unfortunately like so many things sold to gather other parts needed :(

ALPINA Catalog 8/74 - "Motor Nord"

This is the page that has the 100L fuel tank. I need to get a translation in Swedish from Fredrik, however I am pretty sure that is the same tank that was in my car. This is an item that I need to fabricate here (more details on that later), if anyone out there has two (2) "Relumit" dry break valves let me know. To the right a nice advert for "Motor Nord" and a picture of an ALPINA 4 cylinder "Flachschieber" (slide throttle) race motor.

This page has the "Scheel 302S" nomex race seat, same seat as originally in my car (in "blue").

This section indicates the 3-Piece wheels from 13"-16" aluminum, magnesium and all sorts of combinations to make any size wheel you want. Very pricey, even in 1974.

This is a copy of the August 1974 ALPINA Catalog from Motor Nord (Motor Nord was the Swedish representative for ALPINA and Schnitzer street/race parts for BMW's. I believe they also supplied BMW Motorsport parts). The highlighted area on the bottom of the page is ALPINA's offering of the ALPINA 4 Valve ("Ventils") motor. All the parts and pieces add up to nearly 50,000 DM. I found a conversion table from 8/1974, the DM was 2.574, so if my math is correct that was about $20,000 USD +/- a pretty fair chunk of change for an engine in 1974. The motor, wheels, seat and 100 liter fuel tank were used in the Gruppe 2 car.

ALPINA 3 - Piece Racing Wheels (Part 1)

This is an early set of BMW - ALPINA 3 - Piece Racing Wheels (recently for sale on Ebay). This the first set of these I have ever seen for sale (or resale). As far as I know this was the first iteration of the wheel for ALPINA. The center was likely cast in Magnesium and is sandwiched between two aluminum half rims. This particular set is 13" diamger (9x13 I believe), however with a different shell they could be made into a 14" wheel. The centers ALPINA made had a different bolt pattern than similar BBS centers, the ALPINA wheel halves were made to fit their centers. These rims also had special wheel bolts (lug bolts), so if you get the opportunity to buy a set of these and they don't have the wheel bolts (which they will likely not have) plan on having a set made. I damn near bought these, eventhough I don't need them (and wouldn't fit over the braking system in my ALPINA Grp. 2 car), they were so cool looking it took everything I had not to buy them.

ALPINA 2002 - "ALPINA Verification Photo's - 3 Cont."

Part of the racing harness - "Autoflug"
Brake rotor and hat (back side), all the bolts holding the pieces together have been wire tied.
Brake rotor again.....is approximately 300mm in diameter and 30mm wide.

Another set of photo's that I had sent along to ALPINA for their review in confirming the authenticity of the ALPINA Grp. 2 car.

ALPINA 2002 - Gruppe 2 Video "in the snow"

Here is the video.....pretty cool. Starts about 30 or so seconds in, also great action of the GS Tuning BMW 2002, Zakspeed Escort, CSL's and Porsche RSR's. What is amazing in this video

is that they are racing in the SNOW, crazy.