RE: SOTW: BMW 735i (E23)

[Mark M]

Dlr Order : 0388918 AG Order : 8493404 Chassis : Reg Mark : A53JCE
Vin Prefix WBAFH8205D Engine Number Reg Date 02/08/1983
Order Type RC Retail Customer
Dealer 16127 Magpie
Dealer Tel [phone]

Production Week 29-07-1983 Pref PM


Model 6888 735I SE Saloon Auto
Colour 139 Bronze Metallic
Upholstery 0173 Nutria Cloth



AG Specification
Model 6888 735I SE Saloon Auto
Colour 139 Bronze
Upholstery 0173 Nutria Cloth
Ordered 209 Limited Slip Differe
Ordered 210 Anti-Blocking System
Ordered 290 TRX Tyres Alloy Rims
Sb 100% 314 N/S Heated Mirror
Ordered 350 Green Tinted Glass
Ordered 401 Electric Sliding Roo
Sb 100% 411 F+R Electric Windows
Ordered 415 Rear Window Blind
Ordered 458 Electric Front Seats
Ordered 460 Electric Rear Seats
Sb 100% 500 Headlight Wash-Wipe
Sb 100% 510 Interior Headlights
Ordered 534 Automatic Air Condit
Ordered 540 Automatic Speed Hold
Ordered 550 On-Board Computer
Sb 100% 812 GB Specification
Sb 100% 850 Additional Petrol

Retail price new £22,400

Those were the days.

New 740i Se today is £65k plus

Edited by Mark M on Friday 7th May 14:16

[Travis Mcgee]

ExPat2B said:

Is anyone else slighty concerned by the 3 speed Automatic gearbox ? Its not going to make for much fun..............

and with petrol at nigh on 1.25 / liter, it wont be cheap to run will it?

[bob1179]

Mark M said:

Dlr Order : 0388918 AG Order : 8493404 Chassis : Reg Mark : A53JCE
Vin Prefix WBAFH8205D Engine Number Reg Date 02/08/1983
Order Type RC Retail Customer
Dealer 16127 Magpie
Dealer Tel [phone]

Production Week 29-07-1983 Pref PM


Model 6888 735I SE Saloon Auto
Colour 139 Bronze Metallic
Upholstery 0173 Nutria Cloth



AG Specification
Model 6888 735I SE Saloon Auto
Colour 139 Bronze
Upholstery 0173 Nutria Cloth
Ordered 209 Limited Slip Differe
Ordered 210 Anti-Blocking System
Ordered 290 TRX Tyres Alloy Rims
Sb 100% 314 N/S Heated Mirror
Ordered 350 Green Tinted Glass
Ordered 401 Electric Sliding Roo
Sb 100% 411 F+R Electric Windows
Ordered 415 Rear Window Blind
Ordered 458 Electric Front Seats
Ordered 460 Electric Rear Seats
Sb 100% 500 Headlight Wash-Wipe
Sb 100% 510 Interior Headlights
Ordered 534 Automatic Air Condit
Ordered 540 Automatic Speed Hold
Ordered 550 On-Board Computer
Sb 100% 812 GB Specification
Sb 100% 850 Additional Petrol

Retail price new £22,400

Those were the days.

New 740i Se today is £65k plus

Edited by Mark M on Friday 7th May 14:16

Fantastic stuff!

I love this sort of information!

[Riggers]

Mark M said:

Retail price new £22,400

Those were the days.

New 740i SE today is £65k plus

Edited by Mark M on Friday 7th May 14:16

Although if you use this: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/historic-inflation-ca... then £22,400 in 1983 comes out as £58,240, so not too bad...

[BSC]

In the Bimmers homeland the paint is called surgical stockings metallic.

[Devil2575]

Mark M said:

Ordered 209 Limited Slip Differe

Now that's the bit that caught my eye!

You'd never get a big car like that with a LSD these days.

[bazking69]

Yes yes yes. Best SOTW I've seen for a long while! Top work!

[nav p]

with the 3 speed auto it will probably crack 60 in 1st!...my old E28 528 did!

[Mitchmachine]

Great Pretender said:

Garlick said:

Simply stunning. Can a PHer please buy this.

Well it won't fking be me. OK?




















>oh stballs<

You know you want to...........

[JayMan]

A good shed, i was looking at this only yesterday. My dad had a 728i in red this shape back in the day, it was a C reg, it was a great car.

Had a really rubbery spoiler on the back.

Getting rare these days.

[theturbs]

Lovely shed.

[J4CKO]

Yes, looks like a universally popular shed this one, can see why, immaculate by the looks of it or as near as you are going to get, the lowering looks ok but agree that on something so close to original it should be at the standard height, oh and it has never aquired chrome arch trims or aqn Irish 99 quid private registration as most old Mercs and BMW seem to along with an air of Yardie/Gangster/bloke trying to look wealthy on a budget.

Be careful though, these love a drink !

I say someone should go for it and waft round in a permanent cigar smoking 80's captain of industry fantasy in a Peter Bowles/Richard DeVere stylee.

[Phunk]

Retail price is a little more :P

Basic Total 21,267.08
Value Added Tax 3,721.74
Grand Total (excludes on the road charges) 24,988.82

[JayMan]

J4CKO said:

Be careful though, these love a drink !

Depends on how you drive really.

I returned 27mpg in my E32 730i in my cross alpine hoon, over 1,500 miles, very suprising.

admittedly its a later model with a slightly smaller engine but it did get some stick up the alpine passes and on the french auto routes.

[J4CKO]

JayMan said:

J4CKO said:

Be careful though, these love a drink !

Depends on how you drive really.

I returned 27mpg in my E32 730i in my cross alpine hoon, over 1,500 miles, very suprising.

admittedly its a later model with a slightly smaller engine but it did get some stick up the alpine passes and on the french auto routes.

27 is good for one of those, this is a half litre bigger and generally they arent as good as when new, not that they were that great then, it is possible to get them into single figures, 3 speed box, not that aerodynamic, I reckon mid teens knocking about, twenty on a run.

[GSXRJB]

I had one of these, a 728 manual with an LSD. Best car I've had by miles. Regret selling it every day.

[Illustrious_Lou]

Great Pretender said:

Garlick said:

Simply stunning. Can a PHer please buy this.

Well it won't fking be me. OK?











>oh stballs<

Edited by Illustrious_Lou on Friday 7th May 15:58

[g3org3y]

Properly cool

[Oddball RS]

Rare car, rare colour? there out of place for an add for battered old tank, seems an expensive potential money pit to me. £400 tops.

[Zod]

My Dad had one, an SE, A638SCP in Titanium Silver with blue velour seats (should have gone for leather, Dad!).

I drove it several times when my parents were out, just after I passed my test. I was a a bad kid and wouldn't have been insured. It was a great car and started my admiration for BMW.