{"id":495737,"date":"2016-08-01T00:50:57","date_gmt":"2016-08-01T07:50:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=33358"},"modified":"2024-02-28T02:25:32","modified_gmt":"2024-02-28T02:25:32","slug":"amazingly-modern","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/amazingly-modern\/","title":{"rendered":"1937 BMW 328 &#8211; Amazingly Modern"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='memberful-global-teaser-content'>\n<p>Sometimes, when asked for a list of significant cars, a marque can be overlooked. It is seldom because the marque isn\u2019t important; rather it is often a case that the marque is thought of as being \u201cmodern.\u201d BMW has claimed such an important place in the import car market, that its history is overwhelmed by the company\u2019s modern status. Then an opportunity comes along that brings all that history back into focus. Such was the case for this profile of Lothar Schuettler\u2019s 1937 BMW 328. When the company\u2019s history is researched, the speed of the early development of BMW\u2019s automobiles is impressive, and the 328 represents the apogee of the company\u2019s pre-WWII history. The BMW 328 is a significant automobile in so many ways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-559855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816-770x513.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816-370x247.jpg 370w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/IMG_3816-293x195.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>Having experienced the car on the road, it was pleasing to read that others shared the impression that the car imparted. Briggs Cunningham said that he thought the BMW 328 \u201cwas probably one of, if not the most advanced two-liter sports car of its time.\u201d Craig Cheatham, in his 2004 book titled Vintage Cars, simply called the BMW 328 \u201camazingly modern.\u201d So, how modern is the 328 and how is it that a car built in the late 1930s has such a reputation?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<style>\n        .memberful-global-teaser-content p:last-child{\n            -webkit-mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n            mask-image: linear-gradient(180deg, #000 0%, transparent);\n        }\n    <\/style>\n<div class='memberful-global-marketing-content'>\n<div class=\"a07online-global-marketing-content-wrapper\">\n<h2 class=\"a07online-global-marketing-title\">No Subscription? 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Such was the case for this profile of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":140,"featured_media":559862,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2183,226,9348,17099],"tags":[3935,16840,228,19697,19747,19748,6444,13061,11631],"class_list":["post-495737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-1930s","category-bmw","category-guides","category-model-guides-driven","tag-1930s","tag-1930s-cars","tag-bmw","tag-bmw-featured","tag-bmw-328","tag-bmw-model-guides-328","tag-bmw-model-in-depth","tag-car-profiles","tag-driven"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>1937 BMW 328 - Amazingly Modern<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/amazingly-modern\/\" \/>\n<link rel=\"next\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/amazingly-modern\/2\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"1937 BMW 328 - Amazingly Modern\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Sometimes, when asked for a list of significant cars, a marque can be overlooked. 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