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[The Don of Croy]

PowerslideSWE said:

bmthnick1981 said:

E38 love...

That is absolutely fantastic.

And at under £2000 almost unheard of VFM. Lovely colour too.

[Lungwun]

PowerslideSWE said:

I agree, the pricing is all over, and most likely down to the so-called classic, och semi-classic bubble in this case. Traders on the continent seem to think that 10K+ Euro is a fair price for one with 150000 miles on the clock. It's not.

I payed 55000 Swedish (divide by 12ish for the price in pounds) for mine in May last year, lost my job pretty much a month after I bought it and had to sell, had it out until november for the same price as I paid before I got a customer, who then bought it on sight. Mine was as said a rather rare, well equipped totally rust free example in a very sober and rare colour combination of antracite metallic over black, with black headliner, and genuine 105000 miles and it took me half a year to sell. Imagine getting over 10k for a 150.000 mile pre-facelift. Not going to heppen.

Doesn't really answer your question tho, maybe the private sellers are more reasonable?

I assume you're looking for a RHD car? Food for thought is that the facelift short wheelbase 750 in right hand drive were made in 113 examples world wide, so they are the perverbial rocking horse poo....

Well, to be honest i'm in the market for a LHD version.

I've got alerts on Mobile.de and Autoscout24 whenever a new one is added up for sale.

And to be completely honest, its a bit disappointing the UK has such incredibly cheap, low mileage cars. Whilst sellers in Europe have such exaggerated overvaluation of their cars.

At least the private sellers have realistic pricing but this gives rise to the 'is this too cheap' conundrum.

[BigBen]

bmthnick1981 said:

Very nice, missing the rare and expensive v12 badges on the C pillars.

I recently bought a car missing those on its C-pillars Looks all the better for it IMO.

[W00DY]

bmthnick1981 said:

PowerslideSWE said:

golfer19 said:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C738235#







Needs original wheels put back on.

V12 and £4500

And the style 95's that are on assuming they are genuine will get you a fair chunk of cash back, very popular on E38's.

Add says 1998, clearly a facelift. Can someone pull the VIN on that?

Edited by PowerslideSWE on Wednesday 29th June 16:29

Very nice, missing the rare and expensive v12 badges on the C pillars. Nearly on 100k, is it too expensive? Probably not if you really want one. Looks a nice car, needs to be viewed and driven really.

I think it looks better for the lack of them. Really nice spec and I think Seems reasonably priced, but "no major rust issues" instantly makes me think it might be a little rough around the edges, although that may just be a poor choice of phrase

[AllyBee]

Another V12 here (with badges) doesn't look as nice as the Irish one and sadly yellow brake calipers.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-750I-E38-V12-1997-/1...

[E24man]

FWIW I prefer the pre-facelift cars..... although that may be due to a personal purchase

Anyway, as we're E38 picture whoring here's a pre-facelift for you....

[E65Ross]

W00DY said:

bmthnick1981 said:

PowerslideSWE said:

golfer19 said:

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C738235#







Needs original wheels put back on.

V12 and £4500

And the style 95's that are on assuming they are genuine will get you a fair chunk of cash back, very popular on E38's.

Add says 1998, clearly a facelift. Can someone pull the VIN on that?

Edited by PowerslideSWE on Wednesday 29th June 16:29

Very nice, missing the rare and expensive v12 badges on the C pillars. Nearly on 100k, is it too expensive? Probably not if you really want one. Looks a nice car, needs to be viewed and driven really.

I think it looks better for the lack of them. Really nice spec and I think Seems reasonably priced, but "no major rust issues" instantly makes me think it might be a little rough around the edges, although that may just be a poor choice of phrase

Style 95 wheels suit E65s. Not E38s!

[r129sl]

AllyBee said:

Another V12 here (with badges) doesn't look as nice as the Irish one and sadly yellow brake calipers.



http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-750I-E38-V12-1997-/1...

Christ, is that still for sale?

[PowerslideSWE]

BigBen said:

I recently bought a car missing those on its C-pillars Looks all the better for it IMO.

Were those badges really an option? I've had 3, no badges on either, and I don't think I've ever seen one in the flesh with if I'm honest. Looks better without anyway. The 750 on the back gives it away for those who know. Gave a colleague a ride in my first one, he thought the 5 in 750 meant it was a five cylinder....

[BigBen]

PowerslideSWE said:

BigBen said:

I recently bought a car missing those on its C-pillars Looks all the better for it IMO.

Were those badges really an option? I've had 3, no badges on either, and I don't think I've ever seen one in the flesh with if I'm honest. Looks better without anyway. The 750 on the back gives it away for those who know. Gave a colleague a ride in my first one, he thought the 5 in 750 meant it was a five cylinder....

I was referring to my C140 which I am pretty sure was supposed to have them but the whole car has been debadged, which is exactly what I would have done if some previous owner had not.

[E65Ross]

E24man said:

FWIW I prefer the pre-facelift cars..... although that may be due to a personal purchase

Anyway, as we're E38 picture whoring here's a pre-facelift for you....

Definitely prefer the late facelift personally! Yours must be a late prefacelift with that interior. Nice engine, mind

[W00DY]

E65Ross said:

Style 95 wheels suit E65s. Not E38s!

With you on that one. They don't work in the slightest.

[AllyBee]

r129sl said:

Christ, is that still for sale?

Do share, how long has it been up for?

[Krikkit]

AllyBee said:

r129sl said:

Christ, is that still for sale?

Do share, how long has it been up for?

At least 4 months, it was in Vol.9 at some point.

Boot spoiler + yellow calipers + price puts me off, not really sure why, just bad vibes.

[Max M4X WW]

Just checking in with a CL500 update: The car developed a rattle in one of the catalytic converters just before getting the air-con compressor fixed so after having nice cool air over the the Le Mans weekend I thought I'd book it back in to see which side needed doing. I ordered the part today, annoyingly it is the more expensive side (both look the same to me!) but another pattern part should last another few years.

After this is all sorted the car will be up for sale, I just really want an E90 M3 and can't start the process whilst keeping it.

[C Lee Farquar]

W00DY said:

E65Ross said:

Style 95 wheels suit E65s. Not E38s!

With you on that one. They don't work in the slightest.

As mentioned above,if you don't like them they do fetch a few quid. I just bought a new rear one and they are close to £500 each.

[S3_Graham]

k-ink said:

More great information! Thanks so much. I guess you either factor in these repair costs, or get a car with all the hard work done. The expensive third option may be one of the uber expensive low mile cars.

Although as lovely as these look, I do wonder if they might prove to be too huge to live with. For example in a multi storey car park etc! I guess an E34 five would be the sensible option!

Can't go wrong with an E34 five. The smaller engine cars can still be had fairly cheaply. Sadly the bigger engine are starting to go up pretty quickly. Great looking cars imo. I'll be selling mine soon and i'm really going to miss it.


There is a lovely 535 kicking around in darkest south west wales that I've been trying to buy. Twice its been on ebay. 1295 and then 1195. Both times I've offered £1000 and been kicked back. Were it not a 6 hour train journey I'd have hit BIN!

Edited by S3_Graham on Thursday 30th June 08:29

[r129sl]

Krikkit said:

AllyBee said:

r129sl said:

Christ, is that still for sale?

Do share, how long has it been up for?

At least 4 months, it was in Vol.9 at some point.

Boot spoiler + yellow calipers + price puts me off, not really sure why, just bad vibes.

I thought it was even longer ago than that. I think they are last summer's flower's in the pictures.

The gash exhausts and badging put me right off.

Have we had these ones?

Over-budget at the asking price and I don't like th colour-coded sills: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-750i-Stored-In-Heate...


Looks dodgy: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-750i-L/331884186168?...


Another crumby ad but silver on blue is nice and Germanic: http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/BMW-750/331882717510?_tr...

Edited by r129sl on Thursday 30th June 09:21

[bmthnick1981]

Krikkit said:

AllyBee said:

r129sl said:

Christ, is that still for sale?

Do share, how long has it been up for?

At least 4 months, it was in Vol.9 at some point.

Boot spoiler + yellow calipers + price puts me off, not really sure why, just bad vibes.

I would say much longer, it started off at something like £7-8k....

[bmthnick1981]

BigBen said:

bmthnick1981 said:

Very nice, missing the rare and expensive v12 badges on the C pillars.

I recently bought a car missing those on its C-pillars Looks all the better for it IMO.

Haha, I was actually planning to source some of those for the C140 if I kept it. I'm loving it's replacement! Hope it is serving you well.