A 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL just like grandpa made famous:
Much of his work was about motion, embodied by his mobiles. He also wanted to push his work out to the masses. In 1973, Braniff International Airways commissioned him to paint a plane."Flying Colors of South America," as it was known, was showcased at the Paris Air Show in 1975. "It got a huge amount of attention," Rower says."I mean, this was before airplanes were painted. It didn't say Braniff anywhere on it and had Calder’s name over the door.
He set about tracking down an identical 3.0 CSL."I made all these rookie mistakes looking for the wrong thing." It took a couple years until one of his car collecting friends, Bob Rubin, introduced him to Jeffrey Einhorn, who tracked down the car they needed in Sweden. Rubin and Einhorn are two of the three founders of the Bridge car show.
A BMW technician, Franz Ostermaier, worked at the BMW Classic Center in Munich, comparing the Calder car to the work in progress. The artist's proof was equipped with an identical six-cylinder engine used for racing. Rower contacted Maurer, now almost 80, to apply the paint. Maurer mixed over a dozen yellows until he landed on an exact match of his original work.
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