Lovely Cars: Interesting, Classic, Retro, Barge 5-10k
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This one I genuinely do like, well more than like actually...
A little closer to home and lovely spec and colours, just a smidge over thread budget
http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833312
A little closer to home and lovely spec and colours, just a smidge over thread budget
http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833312
mondayo said:
This one I genuinely do like, well more than like actually...
A little closer to home and lovely spec and colours, just a smidge over thread budget
http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833312
Looks nice. Is that the going rate for these now? Seems a little pricey to me. A little closer to home and lovely spec and colours, just a smidge over thread budget
http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833312
mondayo said:
Old 635 manual and located in.....Yugoslavia! Do you think that means you have to travel back to the 1990's to buy it?
http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C771706
That's in Montenegro, which is mostly warm and sunny (apart form the odd ski resort), so cars are likely to be well preserved there.http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C771706
CharlesdeGaulle said:
mondayo said:
This one I genuinely do like, well more than like actually...
A little closer to home and lovely spec and colours, just a smidge over thread budget
http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833312
Looks nice. Is that the going rate for these now? Seems a little pricey to me. A little closer to home and lovely spec and colours, just a smidge over thread budget
http://m.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C833312
Having had the M I'm now spoiled and couldn't face a non-M variant in my snobbish ways.
E24 prices have been on a steady but small rise since their low-point of about ten years ago. About 4 years ago the M635 took off on the coat-tails of the E28 M5, itself being on the coat-tails of the E30 M3 bonkers price fiasco.
Only in the last year or two have standard 635CSi prices hiked up their skirts with even holey, rusty wrecks now being bid to over 2 and sometimes 3 thousand pounds. I suspect this is now because so few are left that demand for good ones is out-stripping supply and even the tired cars are getting priced at higher point then would seem 'normal'.
As for the 'M' being that much more special, well yes, the M88/3 engine is a jewel but it is slightly precious about how it is treated whereas the M30 engine still outlasts almost every car it is put in. Check the banjo bolts, set the tappets while you're there and then leave it be except an oil-change or two for however many miles you dare. It's a very honest lump and seems to lose little of its now somewhat meagre 218 or 220 ponies and can still propel a relatively light chassis along quite indecently.
They look good enough that almost everyone will let you out of a junction just to see the shape waft by.
But I am a touch biased.
Only in the last year or two have standard 635CSi prices hiked up their skirts with even holey, rusty wrecks now being bid to over 2 and sometimes 3 thousand pounds. I suspect this is now because so few are left that demand for good ones is out-stripping supply and even the tired cars are getting priced at higher point then would seem 'normal'.
As for the 'M' being that much more special, well yes, the M88/3 engine is a jewel but it is slightly precious about how it is treated whereas the M30 engine still outlasts almost every car it is put in. Check the banjo bolts, set the tappets while you're there and then leave it be except an oil-change or two for however many miles you dare. It's a very honest lump and seems to lose little of its now somewhat meagre 218 or 220 ponies and can still propel a relatively light chassis along quite indecently.
They look good enough that almost everyone will let you out of a junction just to see the shape waft by.
But I am a touch biased.
CharlesdeGaulle said:
Very lovely indeed, and conspicuous VFM as well.Here's a new contender for "ambitious mark-up of the decade". The very nice low mileage Scimitar that went for £7,770 at Anglia (including buyer's premium) last month is now on at a dealer for ... wait for it... £17,850.
Before:
http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/classic-auct...
After:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C840404
Before:
http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/classic-auct...
After:
http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C840404
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