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    Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    I was gonna say "shove it up your ass" until I saw "Touring".


    Hmm. Well, not crack pipe, then. Hash pipe, maybe.


    It's certainly not a Nice Price, though, unless he's done all the paperwork and gotten it reg'd/insp'd/smog'd. Even then... I dunno.


    I'm inclined to guess that "original European plates" is a euphemism for "good luck, sucker". Pass the glass.

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    Image of Maymar Maymar
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    As a minor nerd issue, did the US not get the Audi 5000/100/200 wagon, the one with such a severely sloped rear window that it's almost a hatchback? It's probably not quite as nimble, but I'm sure it's decent.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    I would rather buy this 1983 Alpina B9 for just under $15k
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/23/09

    forgot the link

    [cgi.ebay.com]
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    Image of Flagrant German Fanboy Flagrant German Fanboy
    06/23/09

    @Dr.Danger drives a Chevrolet movie theater: Thank god I'm broke, or you would have just cost me $12,900 my friend!


    Ugh ... want ... so ... bad ...

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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/23/09

    @Flagrant German Fanboy: I think you can sell a testicle for $50k
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    Image of P161911 probably shoudn't have P161911 probably shoudn't have
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    If this was a US market WITH A/C E30 coupe in this condition he could probably get $4-5K for the car. The prices on really nice E30s have been creeping up, but there are plenty still in the basement of sub $1000. I just sold my 87 325 4 door for $1800. I would say he is off by at least $5000, more like $8000.
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    Image of WheatKing WheatKing
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    That looks strangely like a prom dress.


    "Hey honey.. remember that old blue dress.. think you could squeeze into it so that I can get some pics of you with the wagon before we sell it.. perhaps after I'm done takin pics we can fold down the back seat and get you out of that tacky thing, you know, like old times."


    Yup.. crackpipe

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    Image of EndlessMike EndlessMike
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    $15k gets an E30 M3 in perfect condition. Why would I pay that much for a Touring?
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/23/09

    Mint M3 E30 is going to be a lot more then $15K. They have gained in popularity and people are selling them for over $20k+ now.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    $1500? Nice Price.


    $15000? Highway robbery.


    I've owned vehicles that didn't come with AC (my favorite thing was going to job interviews the summer I finished college, in a suit). I don't like weather over 75F, so even upstate NY summers are brutal as far as I'm concerned. So, no thanks. A wagon with no AC is just that much more glass area available to heat the interior air on a sunny day.

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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    That's a nice car, and a rare wagon for the States. For that age, 124K miles is very light usage.


    But $15,000? For a 20 year old car?


    Really?


    Only if the chick in the dress comes with it.

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    Image of .357 .357
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    This is a difficult decison. So, my advice is to vote... Neither.
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    Image of Jo Schmo Jo Schmo
    06/23/09

    @Ambiguously Unfunny Serial Killer: I am having a hard time with this one too. I'm voting "Nice Pipe"
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    Image of Six Flags Over Tomsk Six Flags Over Tomsk
    06/23/09

    @Jo $chmo: The correct answer is "Crack Price."
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    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    considering you can get many a E30 BMW for less than $500 bucks nowadays its a crack pipe for sure.
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    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    So you put Hankook tires on what is supposedly the love of your life? I also don't like the "I am a professional mechanic and I've done everything is should need for the next 40k miles...and if you cross your fingers, it won't throw a rod in the next 5K. Well, you can find out whilst sweating to death, because the car doesn't have A/C.


    Pass the pipe.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/23/09

    @☠Grяrяrяrяrя sings the doom song now!: Wait, I missed that --- no A/C?! Deal breaker. Crack. As in "trick of sweat in your."
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    06/23/09

    @Novaload Misses Murilee: Pfft. A/C is for people who don't want to muss up their coif with open windows.
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    Image of Bauhaus Bauhaus
    06/23/09

    @Mike the Dog: Or people who live in Tennessee, where it's been 90+ for the last week, with humidity over 80%. No AC is fine if you live in Maine, or upper Wisconsin, or nice cool dry places like that, but down here? What Novaload Misses Murilee said. Growing up, my dad had a '71 Valiant (LTOP and all) - bulletproof, except for AC compressors. He finally gave up on them, and we rolled down the windows. But it was dark green (almost identical to the color the National Park Service used to use), and had a black vinyl interior. So we sweated A LOT.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    06/23/09

    @Bauhaus: I currently live in Michigan where the temp regularly gets around 90° in the summer with 80%+ humidity. I could have the air in my Eagle repaired and charged for about $200 but since I never use it, why bother? I consider the manual windows and lack of A/C to be assets rather than liabilities.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    I had to vote Nice Price just because all the recent service he lists would cost you at least $5k at a competent shop. Also because it's a wagon, and a looker to boot.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    06/23/09

    @Mike the Dog: I'm with you. But dang, there are only 10 of us who voted "nice price"!
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    Image of CorporateFelon CorporateFelon
    06/23/09

    @Mike the Dog: Also one thing this ad doesnt mention, if it is fully titled or not in the states.
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    Image of Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face. Mike the Dog is sitting by the door with a pair of cow slippers, and a very sad face.
    06/23/09

    @CorporateFelon: In the "in motion" pic in the ad, it seems to have a blurred-out Cali white plate instead of the German plate featured in the parked pictures. One could always e-mail the seller and ask.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    Very nice looking rare wagon. I believe that had the 2.5L, which was a better engine then the 2.7L. All of this considered, would it really be worth the $15K or could you pick up an M3 for that price?


    Chances are, maybe not. But I don't know if I could pay that much for this car.

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    Image of bliq00 bliq00
    06/23/09

    @Dr.Danger drives a Chevrolet movie theater: $15k for an M3? sure you could. and it would be an E36. I bought 2 E30 M3s in the 90s for less than $13k each.
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    Image of Dr. H. F. Danger Dr. H. F. Danger
    06/23/09

    @bliq00: I meant to add, E30 M3. It seems like the price of those are going above the E36 now. Its just a completely different car. I payed $2,500 for my 325is in the 90's, but they are also growing in value.
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    Image of spuy767 spuy767
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    For 15 Grand one can have a rather nice passat wagon with relatively low miles.
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    Image of SirNotAppearing SirNotAppearing
    06/23/09

    @spuy767: I just Kelly Blue Book'd my E46 wagon. With 70k miles, it's only worth $11k. And I have cold AC. Crack pipe.
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    06/23/09

    @spuy767: Or a nice used WRX wagon.
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    Image of CafeRacer1200 CafeRacer1200
    06/23/09

    In reply to Devil in a Blue Dress Selling BMW E30 Touring for $15,000!
    If I wanted a wagon, I'd find a clean Vista Cruiser for a whole lot less than that.
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    Image of Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face Tossed Accord taco salad over Malibu face
    06/23/09

    @CafeRacer1200:


    But could you sing "Devil, in a blue dress"...


    In a E30 at about 110mph?


    I think ya be lucky if the Vista Crusier could get up to that speed..

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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    06/23/09

    @CafeRacer1200: Yea!

    Vista Cruiser: Official vehicle of every Tanshanomi family vacation, 1969-1977.
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    Image of felis_concolor felis_concolor
    06/23/09

    @Tossed Accordtaco salad over Malibu: Don't know much about the VCs, do you? The only difference between the top of the line wagons and their 4-4-2 counterparts was a slightly different state of tune - and you could still order the top of the line W30 engine for your new wagon if you knew which parts to ask for (dad did). At 130 in a VC, the engine is still good for another 15-20 mph before you need to worry about breaking something.
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    Image of Tanshanomi Tanshanomi
    06/23/09

    @felis_concolor: Yes, but at 130 in a VC, you do need to worry about braking for something...
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