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Originally Posted by gypseywilson
Hi again Mike, sorry I didn’t explain myself very well. The point I’m trying to make is that a quick internet search has come up with the chassis numbers of four confirmed Cologne Capris and they are
GAECPY 19999
GAECPB 19997
GAECNA 19997
GAECLJ 19997
There are others out there that end in 19998 so if the only thing that changes is the letter that defines the month and year. Does this mean that all race cars built at the factory had chassis numbers ending in 97,98 or 99?
This car, allegedly, was raced in Europe after being built in 1971 and then it was exported to the Ford East Africa Importer in about 1973, used at a couple of circuits in Kenya then was laid up for 40+ years.
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Not sure if this will help, but as we know the Cologne Capris and BMW CSL`s were designed and built by the same people, Braungart and Neerpasch. I know little about the Capris but the above numbers ring bells from my CSL knowledge. When BMW decided to homologate the CSL for Group 2 and build 1000 examples the chassis number range started at 2275001. Therefore the last chassis built to satisfy the FIA would be 2276000. The chassis numbers selected for the factory race chassis started from 2276000, the second chassis was 2275999, 2275998, 2275997, etc.....as the Capri numbers quoted above seem to include the last digits 999.998,997, etc...maybe the same system was used. It may also have had the effect of convincing the FIA that 1000 examples had been built ??