to the painful travel restriction, lots of free time and some extra cash lying around, I have been going through some of the popular online classified sites and also spending time on online shopping apps, making a few stupid retail decisions in the process.
Along came Hans Glas GmbH; this debt-ridden company had a production facility in the relatively nearby Bavarian town of Dingolfing and could provide urgently needed capacity to ease the burden on BMW’s Munich plant. Glas was duly taken over by BMW in 1966. For BMW this was a chance to get its hands on a perfect new facility at close enough proximity to its main plant in Munich and ready-stocked with a well-trained workforce who could hit the ground running. BMW halted production of the Glas 1700 in 1967, unable to find a business case for the model alongside its own, strong-selling 1800 and 2000.
Not long after production got underway, the BMW 1800 SA was joined by the more powerful 2000 SA. In 1973, its body design was updated to include a front end which reflected the BMWs of the time . These facelifted models were named BMW 1804 SA/2004 SA. BMW took complete control of the South African plant in 1974 and also began production of the 5 Series there.