One for AndyS !!
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Printed Date: 03-May-2024 at 11:26
Topic: One for AndyS !!
Posted By: Drew540i
Subject: One for AndyS !!
Date Posted: 21-February-2006 at 18:03
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Andy - I'm not sure if you're actively after an E32 but i
found one today by chance. If you can get Thursday off work and get yourself down to Mansfield (M1 J28) my local auction has a very, very nice 1992 Calypso red 730i SE Automatic with Lotus white leather going through. I can't remember the mileage (over 100k I expect) but it was certainly a very pretty car that's been really well looked after. Today it went through the auction and made just £350 and didn't sell - reserve not met. I reckon £6-700 would buy it but I might be able to get an idea of the reserve. The interior's very good bar the usual ageing on Lotus white (still okay though), it wears standard BBS 15 inch rims in excellent shape and the engine sounds healthy. It starts at 11am on Thursday - I can pick you up from the station if you're interested in this one. This just stood out like a sore thumb in the sea of stone chipped Vectras and was in better condition than 51 plate BMW's! 
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Posted By: AndyS
Date Posted: 22-February-2006 at 05:32
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Cheers Drew, a tempting thought but better not right now. J28 is just south of Sheffield right? ------------- AndyS Live each day as if it's your last - one day it will be. http://www.photostick.co.uk/view-933_BaurSig1.jpg" rel="nofollow"> 
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Posted By: Drew540i
Date Posted: 23-February-2006 at 10:30
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Went though again - made £375 this time. Number
plate C7VOR went with it but not sure if it sold or not. If it did, someone got a cheap car - that's £800 worth all day long. |
Posted By: pma1ums
Date Posted: 23-February-2006 at 10:58
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hmmm it looks good at that £ ------------- its a dogs world out there |
Posted By: Drew540i
Date Posted: 25-February-2006 at 16:04
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E32's are worth absolutely b*gger all now, almost
worthless. That's why I bought one for £400, over 19 months and 42'000 miles ago. 
I wouldn't touch a V8 or V12 though, too many expensive bits to go wrong. The M30 6 cylinder cars do 200'000 miles okay and the 735i goes well enough for a banger. M30 - no catalysts, no hydraulic tappets, no cambelt, no alloy block, just an ancient Heinkel bomber engine! 
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Posted By: Horsetan
Date Posted: 09-March-2006 at 18:46
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Never mind that! Look at http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/bmw-e32-730i-auto-breaking_W0QQitemZ4618261281QQcategoryZ10374QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem - THIS -------------   
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Posted By: jenks80085
Date Posted: 10-March-2006 at 09:13
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Posted By: Drew540i
Date Posted: 15-March-2006 at 11:46
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Sort of a shame, but it's worth even less in bits than
it is as a whole car. In my local scrapyard, E32's sit there for weeks untouched and get crushed whole. A better one was a 1989 735iA driven into a local breakers, in better nick than that one - it was a minter. The engine ended up in a Highline 635CSi, the autobox in a 535i E34 and the LSD in the boot of my car :-) It kept three other cars on the road so never mind. Think about all those tidy Mark 11 3.8 Jaguars driven into scrapyards in the seventies. During the second fuel crisis in 73-4, these cars were absolutely unsaleable. A good mate of mine drove a nasty 1962 flat floor E Type 3.8 roadster into a breakers in Bicester in around 1975 - rusty, tired engine, no syncros left. Then, a tidy one was worth £250-300, a rubbish one was worth nothing............... |
Posted By: AndyS
Date Posted: 15-March-2006 at 20:20
E32 calipers & brackets!!! Just what my Six needs  ------------- AndyS Live each day as if it's your last - one day it will be. http://www.photostick.co.uk/view-933_BaurSig1.jpg" rel="nofollow">
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