{"id":658075,"date":"2010-02-08T14:25:16","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/?p=36501"},"modified":"2010-02-08T14:25:16","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T19:25:16","slug":"reader%e2%80%99s-rides-adam%e2%80%99s-1973-bmw-3-0-cs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/658075","title":{"rendered":"Reader\u2019s Rides: Adam\u2019s 1973 BMW 3.0 CS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/readers-rides-adams-1973-bmw-3-0-cs\/dsc_0601\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36502\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0601-500x332.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" alt=\"1973 BMW 3.0 CS\" title=\"DSC_0601\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36502\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adam Wickstead sent in pics of his very lustworthy 1973 BMW 3.0 CS.  Built by Karmann for BMW, the 3.0 CS featured a 2985cc motor with dual carbs good for 180 horsepower.  The CS line helped to establish BMW as a driver&#8217;s car, largely due to their success in European Touring Car racing.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-36501\"><\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/readers-rides-adams-1973-bmw-3-0-cs\/dsc_0595\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36503\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0595-500x332.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_0595\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36503\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Adam&#8217;s ride sports Alpina wheels and wears a rare shade of green paint.  The E9 coupes, as BMW called them, were prone to rust so clean examples are getting hard to find.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ridelust.com\/readers-rides-adams-1973-bmw-3-0-cs\/dsc_0592-1\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-36504\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ridelust.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/DSC_0592-1-500x332.jpg?resize=500%2C332\" alt=\"\" title=\"DSC_0592-1\" width=\"500\" height=\"332\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-36504\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Nice perspective, beautiful car.  Not a trace of tinworm to be seen.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m-CV4yMHg4W2JuAdLh8XjR7nyng\/0\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m-CV4yMHg4W2JuAdLh8XjR7nyng\/0\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m-CV4yMHg4W2JuAdLh8XjR7nyng\/1\/da\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feedads.g.doubleclick.net\/~a\/m-CV4yMHg4W2JuAdLh8XjR7nyng\/1\/di\" border=\"0\" ismap=\"true\"><\/img><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adam Wickstead sent in pics of his very lustworthy 1973 BMW 3.0 CS. Built by Karmann for BMW, the 3.0 CS featured a 2985cc motor with dual carbs good for 180 horsepower. The CS line helped to establish BMW as a driver&#8217;s car, largely due to their success in European Touring Car racing. Adam&#8217;s ride [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1332,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-658075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Lc7","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1332"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}