The Best ///M/Barge/General Rant/Look at this/O/T(Vol XIX)

[Chris Stott]

CharlesdeGaulle said:

I love the colour! The price, not so much.

I don’t mind the colour in isolation, but I don’t think it suits the car at all.

I assumed it had been painted at some point, but that’s how it came out of the factory.

[L100NYY]

https://www.classicdriver.com/en/car/alpina/b12/19...

[Chris Stott]

That looks stunning… but… how much??

[L100NYY]

Chris Stott said:

That looks stunning… but… how much??

Indeed!

[L100NYY]

Daily:

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1706943

Weekend Toy:

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1706096

Bravery Gravy Required:

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/14682452

[Crook]

L100NYY said:

Daily:

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1706943

Weekend Toy:

https://www.carandclassic.com/l/C1706096

Bravery Gravy Required:

https://www.pistonheads.com/buy/listing/14682452

There’s a guy I raced against who has an E39 M5 as his tow car to drag his 7 about. One with a track focussed 308GTB would definitely be a good combination.

[L100NYY]

Big fan of the E39 M5, ran a Silverstone and then an Avus.

They didn’t owe £45k though

[Crook]

No, that’s a LOT of money.

[Patrick Bateman]

I really got in at the right time with the e39. Bought for £7200, sold for £6850.

[chris116]

Crook said:

There’s a guy I raced against who has an E39 M5 as his tow car to drag his 7 about. One with a track focussed 308GTB would definitely be a good combination.

Was the M5 pale blue (Silverstone or Bluewater as a guess) by any chance? Saw one with a tow bar that looked in very good condition. Told it was used to tow the owners 7 all over, and had done approx 300k miles!

[Crook]

Could well be

[McGee_22]

Leins said:

I remember 10+ years ago this car seemed to take an age to sell for what I recall was £11k:



That front end really does shout “OUT OF MY WAY COMMON FOLK!”

I got a bee in my bonnet that the E34 B10 4.6 cars didn't get a grill badge like all the other E34 Alpina cars and the E31 and E32 Alpina cars...

...so I had one made up...



That fabulous B12 5.0 was for sale for about three years starting in the mid teens and eventually selling for £9k iirc; it was MoT'd once and hasn't been on the road since. 10 years in storage. Tragic.

[ATM]

E63
6.2
Estate
68,000 miles

£23,909

isThisImpressive said:

SPECIAL ORDER FOR ROSS BRAWN

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403227863191

[Leins]

McGee_22 said:

I got a bee in my bonnet that the E34 B10 4.6 cars didn't get a grill badge like all the other E34 Alpina cars and the E31 and E32 Alpina cars...

...so I had one made up...



That fabulous B12 5.0 was for sale for about three years starting in the mid teens and eventually selling for £9k iirc; it was MoT'd once and hasn't been on the road since. 10 years in storage. Tragic.

Love it on the grille badge! I remember finding an NLA “C2 2.5” front badge on German eBay for my E30 and even in 2012 it cost me €350 such was demand. Sytner used to cut them up and create a more accurate “C2.5”, but I didn’t have the stomach for that






That’s sad news on the E32 B12, as it looked lovely in the pics

[Blown2CV]

ATM said:

E63
6.2
Estate
68,000 miles

£23,909

isThisImpressive said:

SPECIAL ORDER FOR ROSS BRAWN

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403227863191

that anachronistic grille is horrifying

[L100NYY]

Good Lord. The noise chaps, the noise. One of the best sounding cars I have heard:

Harry’s Garage: Theon 911

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iseJ4SX2934

[Chris Stott]

L100NYY said:

Good Lord. The noise chaps, the noise. One of the best sounding cars I have heard:

Harry’s Garage: Theon 911

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iseJ4SX2934

Yeah, that sounds pretty epic... though I’m sceptical it actually makes 400bhp… the Indy that used to look after my 996 said 100bhp/litre from an aircooled was a big ask, even for a race car.

There’s plenty to like about it… great that the wheels and tyres aren’t stupidly big, oak is a spectacular colour on a 911, the front end looks very nice.

But for me there are some details that don’t work… the big one is the interior, which looks far too modern compared to the exterior. Then there are little things like the dual exhaust tips that just don’t look right and the door mirrors look clumsy.

I think Singer do it just a bit more tastefully.

[L100NYY]

Agreed on a few of the details but that’s the beauty of a bespoke build.

I’d certainly have more retro seats, different mirrors oh and of course the trumpet engine option

[dscam]

L100NYY said:

Agreed on a few of the details but that’s the beauty of a bespoke build.

I’d certainly have more retro seats, different mirrors oh and of course the trumpet engine option

My thoughts too - I’d cherry pick some of the options or look for a variation to some of the details on that particular car. Adore the colour and sound of it though.

Price was a bit of stiffener but I guess in the arena for such cars once you’re north of £500k it becomes academic.

[dscam]

Blown2CV said:

ATM said:

E63
6.2
Estate
68,000 miles

£23,909

isThisImpressive said:

SPECIAL ORDER FOR ROSS BRAWN

https://www.autotrader.co.uk/car-details/202403227863191

that anachronistic grille is horrifying

It really is.

‘Celebrity’ connection is doing some heavy lifting here I think. I sold my facelift saloon with the same miles for similar money a couple of years ago when the market was buoyant. Something closer to £20k for this one seems more reasonable imo.