tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-38342413171066860492024-03-13T21:23:27.020-07:00bernadette the 1975 e12 BMWJAMES BMW E12 http://www.blogger.com/profile/01089840242447343370noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3834241317106686049.post-77900174318369114002023-08-21T03:28:00.003-07:002023-08-21T03:31:32.334-07:00Bernadette fashion shoots <p> 17 th Aug 23..Bernadette in a fashion shoot for mens clothing.. 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<br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="background-color: #6aa84f;">Bernadette is </span> a 1975 528 BMW - first of the five series; <br /><br />Featured as car of the month for May 2008 at <a href="http://www.firstfives.org/carmonth/may2008.html">First of Fives</a></span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><b>528 E12 double barrel carburettor 2.8 ltr 6cly</b> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;"><br />In those days the 528 was wholly made at Stuttgart in Germany. The E12 started life in September 1972 as a 4 cylinder and replaced the 1500/200 series. Known as the “new class of cars”. The E12 came to Australia in 1974.<br />The E12 was designed by French stylist Paul Bracq who joined BMW after leaving Mercedes… the E12 was directly and wholly aimed at the 280 Benz (“First of Fives”). The 528 with it’s wedge shaped body must have seemed refreshing and youthfull against the boxy Benz at that time.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><br />I saw Bernadette in stunning metallic brown with matching chrome and her alloy shoes sparkling at the European car showroom at Port Melbourne, Australia in the early nineties. My partner at the time told me not to touch her as she’d be too expensive to run. I did the opposite and bought her anyway. I was looking for an old Benz or something European and it had to be from the "old school" smell like leather, wood grain, classic shape, stately looks, and of course the bonnet open the reverse to - how sensible - conventional cars ... Bernadette filled the bill. With her long bonnet and short backside (like all good German sports car should be) I fell for her wedge shape so James and Bernadette became an item❤. My partner also loved her.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bHRPcO8TgwM/R-9SEMxvGuI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Zk51q2r_vNM/s1600-h/Picture+048aa1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183451928229518050" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_bHRPcO8TgwM/R-9SEMxvGuI/AAAAAAAAAAM/Zk51q2r_vNM/s320/Picture+048aa1.jpg" style="cursor: hand;" /></a><br /><br />When I finally brought her home Bernadette was my Sunday car, as I always had a run-a-round car, but also would drive her on week days to clients. We spent long weekend drives and picnics in the old girl she never missed a trick and always had a presence when parked.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">She loves to eat the highways and feels at home travelling @140 K but hates the cold until warm. She tolerates stop start traffic and loves a bit of a drink with her 1 ton frame she's a tough old bird at the best and worst of times.Bernadette was always reliable and never let me down.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">In 2003 I came back from being OS for six months. Bernie was being look after by family members she was not excercised. While driving merrily down the freeway with the music on and a bright sunny day, windows down. I heard a noise I look at the bonnet and saw steam coming from all directions I looked at the temp gauge to my shock the tempeture was on boiling😓. She coughed, spluttered and chocked. Bernadette died at 29 yo with the original motor.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">It was a sad day as the mechanic driver told me the worst “you’ve cooked the engine”. As I was traveling behind her I was watching her on the back of a truck in all of her classicness she still looked beautiful even in death. Everybody said “it’s too expensive to get fixed and she’s old, parts are hard to find”, etc etc. The money I needed for her was a problem at the time as I'd just returned from OS, so she stayed at my friends for some months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Everybody told me the same thing - get rid of her, even the mechanic told me it wasn’t worth it, you’re wasting your money to completely redo the engine from the ground up... so I did it anyway.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">I was happy to do it and never regretted it. Bernadette was always a reliable car and besides she's rare and no one has a car like her and that alone was enough.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">WELL THEN the family said “What a good car” the mechanic said “What a good car and a brilliant motor” and sung her praises. He became a fan, and everybody said the car would it will last another 29 years. Hmmm...</span><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bHRPcO8TgwM/R-9uo8xvG1I/AAAAAAAAABE/c4NJ42Hj0AI/s1600-h/Picture+042a1.jpg"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5183483345915288402" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_bHRPcO8TgwM/R-9uo8xvG1I/AAAAAAAAABE/c4NJ42Hj0AI/s320/Picture+042a1.jpg" style="cursor: hand;" /></a> <span style="font-family: arial;"><br /><br />Somebody scratched her in Fitzroy, a trendy suburb of Melbourne, running a coin down all of her left hand panels - it was 1 cm deep. The only car in the street damaged, she was parked near hot sportier cars, Range rovers, but they wanted to damage the old girl… I also had the ash tray pinched and have never been able to get a replacement as it was upholstered with chrome around the edges not available in the country. Parts are getting harder to find.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Bernadette is rarer each year often people would have a look at her and say nice old BM, or they don’t make em like that any more to that extent. The past BMs, MERCs are the true German classics how I expect a European car should be…. (somewhat lost in recent years blending in this more of the same is best attitude) I have to agree I have no interest in the newer BMs and prefer other makes… It’s OLD BMs for me and the second one is going to be a 2 door …a rare one again- besides Bernadette needs a partner!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: arial;">Model 1975 528 double barrel carburettor<br />Colour : Metallic brown<br />Interior: beige<br />Made: Germany<br />Imported: Australia<br />Re- built engine after cooking motor 15000kms<br />Mechanically sound<br />Extras<br />Pin stripping<br />Raised bonnet<br />Power aerial<br />Power steering<br />Air con<br />Alloy wheels</span><br />
<span style="font-family: arial;">The beauty about this model is that nobody is collecting it, so it’s becoming rare; they’re too busy going after M2s and eventually they will be become extinct and I'll have one of the few left.</span><br />
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<br /><span style="background-color: #d0e0e3;">Update </span>Bernie with her new shoes<br />
Bernie featured in Classic and Sports Cars April addition 2013<br />
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<br />Bernie at Doncaster BMW AUST 2010 launching new 5 series Pic 1 and 3
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<br />Bernie is shown often Melbourne CITY SQUARE 2012
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<br />Pic1 Art By Guy Allen❤<div><br /></div><div><i>The Hearld Sun </i>AUS 2012 </div><div><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCZJdoTSQ5fmxdVMsEAZqmhW7C8NRq7sVC9Hrm9OvrdmcL4jPO5IdZOe63tgWbhbvJFrSwoS1qrGMiYvKPovLN8f2lHGcfYd7_rp2dMUF0KNp8p3yaldhNAz1ixEV3xEPhm8lbajZQeuUICVNexKV3St2uz6pnVx-AjU1jtZHlCHt01Q-OrGYSz3TvZY/s1140/1975-BMW-528-w.webp" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="1140" height="160" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRCZJdoTSQ5fmxdVMsEAZqmhW7C8NRq7sVC9Hrm9OvrdmcL4jPO5IdZOe63tgWbhbvJFrSwoS1qrGMiYvKPovLN8f2lHGcfYd7_rp2dMUF0KNp8p3yaldhNAz1ixEV3xEPhm8lbajZQeuUICVNexKV3St2uz6pnVx-AjU1jtZHlCHt01Q-OrGYSz3TvZY/w320-h160/1975-BMW-528-w.webp" width="320" /></a></div><div><div><br /></div><div>2020 updated ,,<span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><i>The </i></span><i><span style="color: red;">Story</span></i> <span style="color: red;"><i> continues </i></span>part 2....💙</div><div><br /></div><div><div dir="auto" id="composer_signature"><p class="Body"><span lang="IT" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">In 2010,Bernadette d</span><span lang="EN-US" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">id get a partner, a 1986 E30 Baur in silver with a complimentary Navy blue roof affectionately called "little Bernie”. Both of them are the last of the retro
style BMWs. I love the classic lines of these cars as well as all the 70s BMWs. To me this was the golden time when BMW did classic with perfection. Symmetry and well balanced resulting in beautiful proportions. The E30 is an example of this beautiful simplicity.
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<p class="Body" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><span lang="EN-US" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><span style="background-color: #f4cccc;"><i>Bernadette </i></span>has been a bit of a celebrity over the years with features in Unique</span><span lang="EN-US">
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style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:
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"Arial" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""> and Classic and
Sports C</span><span original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">ars</span>. She has also been on show twice at Doncaster BMW show casing the new 5 series. She has been a bridal car and has a blog dedicated to her.</p>
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<p class="Body" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><span lang="EN-US" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">She is fairly well known around the traps. You’</span>d <span lang="EN-US
style='font-size:13.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;mso-bidi-font-family:
"Arial" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">hardly see an old E12 in that condition with her white shoes on
the street corner any time too soon.</span> </p>
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<p class="Body" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><span lang="EN-US" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><span style="background-color: #cfe2f3;"><i>Sadly</i></span>, last year 2018, after sitting in the garage for 4 years due to circumstances, the water coolant had eaten her insides. She was being readied for a run to Bendigo to the 100 years of motoring run with the BMW Car C</span>lu<span lang="EN-US
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of Victoria when she,</span> with a cough and splatter and <span style="color: #9fc5e8;">smoking </span>like a steam train came to a stand still.</p>
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<p class="Body" style="height: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">What to do? Should I part with the old girl after 23 years and call it a day and farm her excellent body and interior parts off? Nahhh... I'm into rarity... I'm not into what everyone has. She'll be back.</span></p>
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<p class="Body" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><span lang="EN-US" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><span style="background-color: #a2c4c9;">It took about 8 months</span> as I needed to find the right person because I wouldn't let just anyone touch my old E12.</span> I had someone in mind but they were busy and I would have to wait. I stopped to see Steve
Summit who now runs Northern BM. He convinced me he could do the job, I was impressed as he had been building racing motors since he was 15 and he and John looked after the old girl for some time with kid gloves and gave her the respect of an elderly lady</p>
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<p class="Body" style="height: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr="">Now she back roaring and ready to go, the old girl feels like she has rockets on her back posterior. Steve must have worked some of that race car magic through her DNA.</span></p>
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<p class="Body" style="height: auto;"><span lang="EN-US" original_font_attr="-1" original_line_height_attr=""><span style="color: #cc0000;">Hopefully </span>she’ll be around for another 24 years, she’ll be 44 this September so the story continues!</span></p>
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