$615,000 for Unique Vintage BMW Concept Car

The 1969 BMW “Spicup” Convertible Coupé is deffinitely one of the most weird cars BMW has ever built. After a long and rather rocky life, it has been sold last week for €460,000 ($615,986) as part of Bonham’s auction at the BMW Museum.

This one-of-a-kind car was based on the BMW 2500 sedan, and came as a result of a collaboration between Italian design house Bertone and BMW. Its name, “Spicup”, actually comes from a mixture of Spider and Coupe.
After being initially shown at the Geneva Motor Show in 1969 where it created quite a fuss being such out of place amongst the other significantly more conservative vehicles being offered by BMW at the time, it was sold to a Dutch car dealer, and eventualy, put to daily use. Being a concept car, the fact that it covered more than 60,000 miles during this period of time is quite remarkably.

The 1969 BMW “Spicup” Convertible Coupé was thought to be lost, until it was rediscovered in a barn in 2008, after which it received some treatments. A full frame off restoration brought it to the immaculate condition seen in the pictures, and even though it is certainly not the most notorious model BMW ever created, it is certainly one of the most interesting and full of history, reason for which it has been selled for over $615,000 last week.