RE: SOTW: BMW M5

[Laird]

Agent Orange said:

Laird said:

How naive

Trust me; at a grand, you'd do well to get it to the end of the seller's drive.

I've taken this £99 Legacy that had been idle in a field for 18 months to Rimini and back. Via Stelvio and god knows how many other passes, Maranello, Imola, Monza, Nurburgring and Spa. The fan was hard wired to the battery with a manual switch duct taped to the dash, it was drinking about a litre of oil a day but got us there and back.

All we did mechanically was fit a couple of new (used) sensors, battery, exhaust and tyres and repair a leak on the intercooler.



All I'm saying is its a £1000 ticket to a driving holiday. The car has only got to do 2000 miles and who cares what state it is in at the end?

No really; you won't get it to the end of his driveway. Trust me on this one

[V8pwr]

Stunning but the trouble with it is that nobody's gonna believe you that you have real M5 as there's so many plain 5 series with fake ///M badges.

Edited by V8pwr on Saturday 8th October 16:32

[Axel350Z]

Possibly the best shed in all of PH`s existence..

[K50 DEL]

Axel350Z said:

Possibly the best shed in all of PH`s existence..

And sadly 2 years old, I had the wallet out looking for the seller's number before I noticed!!

[Leins]

Anyone know what happened it?

[anonymous-user]

K50 DEL said:

Axel350Z said:

Possibly the best shed in all of PH`s existence..

And sadly 2 years old, I had the wallet out looking for the seller's number before I noticed!!

Last few years the prices of E34s have shot up.

[CampDavid]

Leins said:

Anyone know what happened it?

It's currently SORN'd from last April so who knows?

[p1ston]

Just a little update as I've just found this add accidentally.
I am the happy owner of this very car. And I must say as cheap as it was it was still one hell of a machine to drive.
Now I bought it and used it to transfer the engine and gearbox to my 1989 LHD M5. And the rest was sold on not longer than 4 weeks ago to a chap who wants to fix her and use it again.
I still got her as she's awaiting collection. Happy look at her now knowing she's a probably pistoneheads legend of cheap super saloons.
Also there was someone who was trying to persuade everyone else that this car would not make it to the road from the seller driveway. bks! The owner was total ///M division freak and once those 3 M5's he had were gone he had a lovely E39 M5 and e36 m3 coupe with rare aluminium doors on the drive. Lovely chap to talk with and awesome deal on this legendary saloon.
So to all dreamers out there who have a lot to say about the car based just on its price. Well thank you for not getting it B4 I did it

[Leins]

Great stuff, good to hear it’s still about. They’re getting rare these days

I sold my one back to a previous owner five years ago, and he’s still got it now

Btw, that E36 sounds a lot like a LHD GT Coupe

[J4CKO]

J4CKO said:

Now I am normally scathing of crowd pleasing Bavarian sheds but this is a find !

They arent making any more of these funnily enough, it looks straight enough and it starts and drives, people pay thousands for E30 M3's so why not the E34 M5 ? a lot of it is non M5 specific and that which is shouldnt be that hard to get hold of.

These were relatively simple compared to what has come since so more diy-able, I doubt there will be many more opportunities to get a running M5 for a grand, this is one of those that you will list as a regret in say five years when you reccount the tale of the M5 for a grand and how you ignored it, like my mate who scrapped a genuine RS1800 Escort due to rot in the eighties.

Look at the price of old Escorts as a case in point, a 2 lb tub of genuine MK1 Escort rust goes for seven to ten grand, manky old Sierra Cosworths go for silly money, Integrales are 20k plus and this is a genuine M5 for a grand.

Whats entry level now ? 10/12 grand for a ropey one ?

[p1ston]

E36 was not GT as all GTs were in British racing Green and this was Techno Violett.

And entry level for a running mot'd M5 nowdays is about 10k. But I can reassure that for this money it might be in same or worse state than the one I've bought from this topic..

[J4CKO]

Just reminds me of this,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zcL1H8t6qTo

[p1ston]

Nahhh none of those. I'm not fan of what this guy was doing on public roads.

[s m]

p1ston said:

Nahhh none of those. I'm not fan of what this guy was doing on public roads.

Not surprisingly, he died in an M5 ....although he was a passenger

[s m]

Leins said:

Great stuff, good to hear it’s still about. They’re getting rare these days

I sold my one back to a previous owner five years ago, and he’s still got it now

Btw, that E36 sounds a lot like a LHD GT Coupe

I certainly remember these up for £2k -> £2.5k, always about £1500 less than the E30 M3 at their cheapest......but there can’t have been many at the SOTW price point

[Leins]

s m said:

Leins said:

Great stuff, good to hear it’s still about. They’re getting rare these days

I sold my one back to a previous owner five years ago, and he’s still got it now

Btw, that E36 sounds a lot like a LHD GT Coupe

I certainly remember these up for £2k -> £2.5k, always about £1500 less than the E30 M3 at their cheapest......but there can’t have been many at the SOTW price point

I remember seeing a £2k 3.6 for sale on here about 2006, and asking a mate of mine if he fancied going halves and see if we could get it across Europe to various racetracks (Spa, Ring, Hungaroring, etc)

In the end we decided against it, and it was a few years later before I bought my 3.8 for what I think was the equivalent of £6k. It had recently had a top-end and gearbox rebuild at 150k miles, plus a cheeky de-cat and Eisenmann Sport fitted. The way it went was just fantastic, that is when it was running without an issue! That engine is still probably my favourite of any BMW I’ve experienced

I was banging the drum on these for quite a while about how good value they were, especially in comparison to anything E30 or E28. Of course they took off in value as soon as I sold mine

Never did manage to borrow a Testarossa either, to remake one of my favourite Car Mag tests from the early 90s

Edited by Leins on Wednesday 23 September 22:14

[s m]

Leins said:

s m said:

Leins said:

Great stuff, good to hear it’s still about. They’re getting rare these days

I sold my one back to a previous owner five years ago, and he’s still got it now

Btw, that E36 sounds a lot like a LHD GT Coupe

I certainly remember these up for £2k -> £2.5k, always about £1500 less than the E30 M3 at their cheapest......but there can’t have been many at the SOTW price point

I remember seeing a £2k 3.6 for sale on here about 2006, and asking a mate of mine if he fancied going halves and see if we could get it across Europe to various racetracks (Spa, Ring, Hungaroring, etc)

In the end we decided against it, and it was a few years later before I bought my 3.8 for what I think was the equivalent of £6k. It had recently had a top-end and gearbox rebuild at 150k miles, plus a cheeky de-cat and Eisenmann Sport fitted. The way it went was just fantastic, that is when it was running without an issue! That engine is still probably my favourite of any BMW I’ve experienced

I was banging the drum on these for quite a while about how good value they were, especially in comparison to anything E30 or E28. Of course they took off in value as soon as I sold mine

Never did manage to borrow a Testarossa either, to remake one of my favourite Car Mag tests from the early 90s

Edited by Leins on Wednesday 23 September 22:14

I remember that article



The M5 just seemed a better car for more of the time

[Leins]

s m said:

I remember that article



The M5 just seemed a better car for more of the time

I do remember a couple of negative reviews of the 3.6 when it came out, particularly Brian Laban who said it wasn’t as involving a car as the E28 and almost too refined

Didn’t stop me getting very excited the first time I saw one on the road back then though