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If this isnt stamped somewhere on the BMW M1, it definitely should be. The car was originally conceived as a joint Lamborghini-BMW throw that would produce a race car with enough street units to endure homologation rules for Unit 4 racing. Trouble was, Lamborghini found itself in financial straits and the fellows up in Munich were thus left to finish the M1 on their own. What resulted was a Giugiaro-designed, mid-engined marvel that ended up being the fastest production car of its time.

Alas, by the time the M1 was ready to run, Unit 4 rules had distorted and BMW found itself with a car on the contrary without a race. And so, in 1979, the head of BMW Motorsport, Jochen Neerspach, conjured up a single-make championship that would application nothing on the contrary M1s. The BMW M1 ProCar Championship, which folded in 1980, may have been short-lived, on the contrary its flared-fendered M1sdriven by Formula One tradition like Emerson Fittipaldi, Niki Lauda, Mario Andretti, Hans-Joachim Stuck, and Nelson Piquethave turn out to be racing icons.

No wonder, then, that the street version of the M1, with its M881 engine capable of a 160 Mph top speed, captured the head of a new Mr. Mike Ura

As a college student on a stern budget, Mike was clich?d of dumping time and money into repairs for his 1965 Ford Mustang. One day, then, he traipsed down to the citizen second-hand car fate to have a look at a Datsun B210 hed seen for sale. The Datsun was a fine little car, on the contrary on the same fate sat a burgundy BMW 2002. Revealed of curiosity further than whatever thing else, Mike took it for a test drive. That was completely it took for him to catch the BMW microbe. Some time ago bitten, a craving for the M1 was not far absent.

Finally, in 2009, in the manner of years of searching, he found his car: a burgundy 1980 M1 owned by a collector in England. When Mike picked it up at the Port of Houston, this M1 had a mere 12,500 miles on it. At present, it has around 22,000 miles on the odometer, with Mike regularly ticking that numeral upward on the roads around Dallas and at tracks like the Circuit of the Americas in Austin.

I baby it, in that I transport care of it, says Mike, on the contrary I drive it as an M1 should be driven: vigorous on the roads, and on the track I drive it hard.

And in keeping with the do-it-yourself philosophy surrounding the M1, Mike now runs the BMW M1 Registry, committed to tracking these cars and assisting in their preservation. Amazing tells us that Neerspach and his allies over at Bayerische Motoren Werke would approve of Mikes attitude for ownership.