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Detroit, 6:12 PM
Sun Nov 22
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Time for me to begin stalking the white E24 'round my hometown, I think. All that greatness, with two fewer doors!
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I love the e28's; so much so that I bought my own earlier this year. $800 for an '84 528e that I'm currently refinishing (to that same color - burgundrot!) and spiffing up the interior and fixing some stuff in the engine compartment, and... Yes, it's my own Bavarian Project Car Hell. Just ask my wife. But don't ask her about the '87 535i that I'm in negotiations to buy; she'll give you an earful.
The premier e28 fanboy site is http://www.mye28.com/ Great people, great help, great support from fellow addicts.
07/12/09
Also, thanks for recalling Adnan. Which for some reason led me to hear Robin Leach's voice. Ah, the 80s! A cultural low watermark that will never quite go away.
07/12/09
I came very close on a couple of occasions to buying an E28 M5. They are perhaps the zenith of 80s BMWness, and the magic of depreciation means you can get a very nice one for less than a new Kia. But at the end of the day these cars combine supercar maintenance regimes and costs with middling performance by today's standards meant that I couldn't justify it. Maybe someday.
As an aside, whenever anyone starts moaning and bitching about how BMW's M division has lost the plot because it is no longer building cars as pure and as focused as the E30 M3, the E28 M5 is the car that I flash to. Both before the E30 M3 and after, the M division was about putting very high performance engines into luxury sports sedans, not about building homologation specials. The E28 M5 stands as a perfect example of this, and has just as much claim to M history as does its more talked about smaller brother.
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Or just Bruce, for short.
That is a nice-looking old Beemer, a real classic, if a little abundant. Would be nicer if it weren't for those big, bad, bureaucratic bumpers.
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diving boardsbumpers. The euro versions of the e28 were much easier on the eyes in that regard.07/12/09
href="#c14189730">Mobius_1000_Club:you´re right, the Euro spec has nicer looks.
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Other than that, the Crown Vics hold together pretty well. I've seen more problems with LeMons Caprices, but they are way faster when they're working properly.
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My dream entry: Maserati Biturbo
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But why not dream about a Quattroporte? I've seen 'em priced in the $1000-1500 range, and you should be able to sell off a lot of parts to get the price down to LeMons territory.
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My point is they do exist. Too bad they are assumed to be cheaters.
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My suggestion for wannabe Miata LeMons teams: If you absolutely must run a Miata, at least do a kickass theme on it (see the Frankenmiata).
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Anyways, a lot of us on tccoa.com have been kicking the idea around, but I can tell you, you can pick up a runner MN12 thunderbird for virtually nothing and sell enough parts off it to get it sub $500 quite easily, even if you paid $500 to start.