1940 BMW 328 Mille Miglia

Here's a car that was on display in the BMW Car Club display area at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.

It's a BMW 328 Mille Miglia and I seem to recall that the notice in the display saying that it was the winner of the Mille Miglia in 1940. The programme of the event says this about the vehicles displayed by the various car clubs:

 

'.....among those well worth visiting is the BMW Car Club's which will include this stunning Type 328 Mille Miglia, which finished fifth at Le Mans in 1939 and won the Mille Miglia (although actually titled the Brescia Grand Prix) in 1940.'

 

Records show, however, that the 1939 fifth place Le Mans car was a BMW 328 Touring Coupe, and the other BMWs in that race resembled the standard BMW 328. The 1940 Mille Miglia winner was also the BMW 328 Touring Coupe and the other BMWs in that race look like the car in the above photograph, which seems to indicate that the car shown here is one of the roadsters that finished in third, fifth and sixth places in the 1940 Mille Miglia.