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    MushyHeirloom: Even if the back end does look like it was befriended by a concrete mixer, at least you can see things less than a quarter mile behind out of the rear... more »
    Bumblebee: Off topic: If you Google Murilee Martin, the first result is his website (NSFW), and the second is: News Flash: Murilee Martin Is A Man! That's gotta ... more »
    Graverobber: God how I hate that era of California plates. I always thought of the 7 series as the paunchy older brother to the 6 series hot chick, who was totally... more »
    LTDScott: I really don't like this style 7-series. They had a serious case of droopy butt. The 3 and 5-series of the same era are much better looking cars. more »
    baldy_pm: "another E23 from the cocaine-and-S&L-money-mad mid-1980s" Makes you wonder what vehicles will be associated with today's financial mess... more »
  • #downonthestreet

    1984 BMW 733i

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. I've been neglecting the big BMWs for most of this series, so it's time to follow up the the '86 735i with another E23 from the cocaine-and-S&L-money-mad mid-1980s. Remember the Savings And Loan Crisis? Wild West loans on worthless assets and egregious fraud following in the wake of deregulation of a once-staid sector of the financial system, ultimately costing 160 billion bucks in taxpayer money? Wait, that sounds familiar, except for the bargain price tag… anyway, here's the kind of car that a low-level S&L scamster would have bought with the proceeds of his first "dead horses for dead cows" loan.
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    PCH, Hell Uber Alles Edition Revisited: BMW 745i or Audi V8 Quattro?

    Welcome to Project Car Hell, where you choose your eternity by selecting the project that's the coolest... and the most hellish! In our last Hell Project matchup, we learned that two-thirds of Jalopnik readers would choose a Mustang-based Fauxrrari over an Integra-based one as their ride of choice in the Lake Of Fire. The Lake Of Fire, as we know, is rough on body panels… but not nearly as rough as it is on brain-scramblingly complex German electronics. That means we're going to return to Hell Über Alles, with a couple of precision-engineered German machines with bargain-of-a-lifetime price tags.
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    1986 BMW 735i

    Welcome to Down On The Street, where we admire old vehicles found parked on the streets of the Island That Rust Forgot: Alameda, California. There's been no shortage of BMWs in this series, but I've sort of overlooked the 5 and 7 series cars so far. No more! Today we'll look at one of the last of the E23s, a somewhat scuffed but still proud 735i, located in the post-late-50s landfill part of town, not far from the '66 Dodge A100 Sportsman.
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