{"id":36,"date":"2008-01-09T21:02:40","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T20:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alpina-archive.com\/?page_id=36"},"modified":"2016-05-09T18:07:39","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T17:07:39","slug":"1-early-cars","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/?page_id=36","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Alpina&#8217;s involvement with cars began with Burkard Bovensiepen&#8217;s purchase of a used Fiat 1500 &#8211; he wasn&#8217;t satisfied with the performance of the Fiat so he brought the car to a friend for a tune-up and make sure that is was running correctly. Burkard and his friend added a Weber carburetor, a more aggressive camshaft and opened up the muffler. This raised the horsepower from 67 bhp to 75 bhp. But shortly thereafter, a cloud of blue smoke began to follow the car and Burkard decided to stop driving Fiats.<\/p>\n<p>In 1983 &#8211; after a lot of hard work &#8211; Alpina become a car manufacturer in its own right.<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" align=\"center\">\n<tr align=\"center\">\n<td width=123\" align=\"center\"><a href=\"images\/homepage\/boven.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"120\" src=\"images\/homepage\/bovens.jpg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<i>Burkard Bovensiepen<\/i>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alpina&#8217;s involvement with cars began with Burkard Bovensiepen&#8217;s purchase of a used Fiat 1500 &#8211; he wasn&#8217;t satisfied with the performance of the Fiat so he brought the car to a friend for a tune-up and make sure that is was running correctly. Burkard and his friend added a Weber carburetor, a more aggressive camshaft [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-36","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.buchloe-archive.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}