Every time I get together with a handful of distant friends and talk about 90s BMWs, I have the same compulsion. It isn't I need an old BMW, it's weirder: I need to scan the amazing BMW brochures from my fanboy youth.

The art of selling cars has always been big business. These brochure images, from the archives at Oldcarbrochures.com, show how things were done in the good ol' days.