According to the well-known story about the creation of the E30 Touring, the E30 Touring is said to have been made by a factory employee (Max Reisböck) who privately built a BMW E30 sedan in his spare time, entirely on his own initiative and without the knowledge of BMW AG and was discovered by a board member in the parking lot of the factory premises, who is said to have taken care of the factory series production of the E30, as he is said to have recognized the sales market for such a vehicle at the sight of the self-construction.
This story is also true so far! However, both factory employee Max Reisböck, who had privately built the vehicle himself, and the member of the board of management did not know that the car had been discovered in the factory parking lot after completion, that the Dutch company Luchjenbroers had already worked years before, in the years 1984 – 1986 already based on the VFL sedans 4 vehicles had already been converted to the E30 Touring.
BMW AG itself has confirmed this in its own company magazine “Edition weiß blau” (Edition 126) as part of an article report in this issue that the first E30 Touring were not built by employee Max Reisböck, but by BMW AG were created before the self-made rice buckets.
The Touring is one of four (4!) VFL Tourings built around 1984-1986.
The Luchjenbroers company in Holland produced 4 vehicles:
320i Touring silver (vehicle from the press release) No. 001
The vehicle is at the manufacturer Luchjenbroers, see the following picture
Fa. Luchjenbroers Holland BMW E30 Touring No: 001
316 Touring arktisblau No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
BMW E30 316 Touring arktisblau Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 002
This vehicle, production date 11/02/1984. The vehicle was only delivered with the extra green glazing, the sunroof, fog lights, etc. were retrofitted by Luchenbroers.
Touring white No. 003
Whereabouts unknown, see picture.
BMW E30 316 Touring weiß Fa. Luchjenbroers No. 003
Touring white No. 004 (right hand drive)
Sold approx. 2002 in December on Ebay England (see picture below)
Price was about £ 750.00. The vehicle was totally rusted and in a poor condition.
Unfortunately, I didn’t know at the time that there were only 4 of these Tourings (one right-hand drive), otherwise I would have bid on the vehicle …