Description
Year: 1959
Transmission: Manual
Condition: Excellent
Exterior: Yellow
Interior: two-tone
1959 BMW 600 four passenger Limousine
This BMW 600 was purchased at the Bruce Weiner Microcar Museum auction conducted in 2013, where more than 200 tiny automobiles went accross the RM Sotheby’s block. As it had been a static exhibit in a museum collection, following the auction these items were tended to in order to make the vehicle roadworthy: new clutch, new brakes and shocks, a new gas tank, rebuilding of the carburetor, and replacing of the tires with new Vredestein 145 SR 10 Sprint Classic tires. The slender bumpers, unique to the European version of the 600, were re-chromed.
For a Microcar of the period, the 600 could be considered to be the most advanced. BMW actually designed as well as manufactured the 600, as opposed to the smaller 300 which was a design by the Italian Iso firm. The 600 was the first BMW to use independent semi-trailing arm rear suspension, a feature that was part of BMW design until the 1990’s. It is a 4-wheel, 4-passenger vehicle with side-opening as well as front-opening doors, with a four speed gearbox and a 582cc 2-cylinder engine producing 19.5 horsepower. Quoted top speed was just a tick above 60 mph.
