Ultra-rare 1979 BMW M1 AHG once owned by Paul Walker goes up for auction (20 pics)

1980 BMW M1 road car, modified German dealership AHG, put up for auction by RM Sotheby's. This the car is one of ten built and was previously part of famous collection of Paul Walker.





Up for sale at RM Sotheby's in December sports car BMW M1, assembled by the Bavarian company in 1979. Help out for the car is calculated up to 550 thousand dollars. Expectations are due to for example, the extreme rarity of the car is one of only 10 existing M1 performed by AHG Studio. In addition, until 2014, the sports car was included in collection of famous actor Paul Walker.



The mid-engined M1 was developed for BMW's participation in FIA Group 5 racing. They began to design a sports car with the participation of Lamborghini engineers, however the partnership between the two companies later fell apart. Now M1 is considered the first a separate project of the “M division” and the first mid-engine model bmw.





To promote the novelty, the company organized its own the Procar racing series, which served as a support race for Formula One. Specially prepared vehicles participated in it, but also civilian sports cars were redesigned using the same solutions. So they did, for example, in the AHG dealership, after the completion of the production of the M1, having decided develop your own tuning kit for the coupe.



Exterior solutions borrowed from racing versions. Besides, in the AHG Studie package included suspension and interior upgrades, as well as engine upgrade. Developed on factory machines 277 hp. The “six” after installing the whale began to give out up to 350 hp. Finally, each customer AHG offered exclusive color solutions for body. It is generally accepted that the dealer completed only 10 cars.



The BMW M1 put up for sale came to AHG in 1980, and in the collection Paul Walker appeared in the early 2010s. He left the meeting in 2014 after the death of an actor in a serious accident. It is noteworthy that in the past this car was put up for sale relatively recently - in January 2021, at an online auction, they posted 500 thousand dollars for it. Mileage sports car at that time was 6800 kilometers, since then the number on the odometer has increased by 21 kilometers.