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Noted collector Oscar Davis entered his one-of-a-kind 1937 BMW 328 Mille Miglia Bügelfalte into the Lime Rock Park Historic Festival’s September 5 “Sunday in the Park” Concours. It’s the first time this car was be seen in the U.S.

For the Mille Miglia, BMW’s design department, Künstlerische Gestaltung, produced this one-off prototype with a streamlined body. It was driven by Count Giovanni Lurani and Franco Cortese and placed sixth overall. The streamlined roadster was based on chassis 85032, extensively modified to lower the engine and driveline in the chassis.

Aside from its low silhouette and flowing fenders, the prototype roadster’s fenders had a pronounced ridge along their tops. It resembled the crease in a pair of ironed trousers and gave the unique car the name it still carries today, Bügelfalte or “ironing crease.”

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