BMW Classic to remanufacture Original BMW 328 gearbox

BMW Classic to remanufacture Original BMW 328 gearbox

We read about the return of an old name earlier. Now, something new for the old. In this case, it’s a brand new gearbox for the Original BMW 328, which celebrated its 75th anniversary last year.

BMW Classic has commissioned the remanufacture of gear-wheel kits for the original Hurth gearbox installed in the car in the 1930s, which featured first and second gears that were not synchronised, and third and fourth gears that were.

Over the years, the existing gearboxes have pretty much been modified and optimised from the original configuration, and the biggest challenge was establishing the actual status of the original.

BMW Classic to remanufacture Original BMW 328 gearbox

Together with Classic’s experts and external specialists, gearbox specialists ZF Friedrichshafen has banded together to work on getting things closer to the original status from the 1930s, and it’s all enough to give the project a status akin to prototype construction for modern gearboxes.

The first prototypes have already been installed in BMW Classic’s works vehicles for endurance testing, and deliveries to customers should begin at the end of this year or early 2013.

The reinvention is borne out of necessity – of the 464 examples of the BMW 328 ever built, around 200 are stiill in existence, some 120 of which are in Germany. You can imagine that there’ll be plenty of owners lining up for the new kits.

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