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Classic car spotting this week.
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·Spotted coming out of my garage for the first time in 2+ years.
As my back got worse prior to surgery in ‘19, I couldn’t do the clutch anymore without serious pain.
Tire pressure was down to 6lbs
First bath in 5 years.
Interior got a full treatment.
New battery and it fired right up. Going to my mechanic in 2 weeks for a full fluid flush and refresh.
It wasn’t a classic when I bought it, but going on 30 years old….
As my back got worse prior to surgery in ‘19, I couldn’t do the clutch anymore without serious pain.
Tire pressure was down to 6lbs
First bath in 5 years.
Interior got a full treatment.
New battery and it fired right up. Going to my mechanic in 2 weeks for a full fluid flush and refresh.
It wasn’t a classic when I bought it, but going on 30 years old….
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Foo2rama
··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.Spotted coming out of my garage for the first time in 2+ years.
As my back got worse prior to surgery in ‘19, I couldn’t do the clutch anymore without serious pain.
Tire pressure was down to 6lbs
First bath in 5 years.
Interior got a full treatment.
New battery and it fired right up. Going to my mechanic in 2 weeks for a full fluid flush and refresh.
It wasn’t a classic when I bought it, but going on 30 years old….
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JwRosenthal
·I always forget about the e34’s… except there was a wagon version of those.
thanks for the needed correction.
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFI always forget about the e34’s… except there was a wagon version of those.
thanks for the needed correction.
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Foo2rama
··Keeps his worms in a ball instead of a can.I remember a couple of years ago there was a mint condition garage queen 3.8 touring in techno violet sold at auction in the UK and I remember thinking at the time what a great chance if it goes cheap, I could import it to Australia and it would be a factory RHD example. It went for something like 100,000 quid.
I once had a glimpse of a true unicorn. I was flying through Frankfurt and was walking through the terminal and on a stand was an e60 M5 touring. Silver with red interior. I seriously thought about relinquishing my US citizenship to live in Germany so I could dream of owning one. Manual 500hp V10 wagons should not exist.
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mydeafcat
·Such a great color on those. There are 2 imported and federalized into the US near me in that color.
I once had a glimpse of a true unicorn. I was flying through Frankfurt and was walking through the terminal and on a stand was an e60 M5 touring. Silver with red interior. I seriously thought about relinquishing my US citizenship to live in Germany so I could dream of owning one. Manual 500hp V10 wagons should not exist.
As for @JwRosenthal’s lovely rig, I can almost smell the eau de Bimmer.
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JwRosenthal
·Such a great color on those. There are 2 imported and federalized into the US near me in that color.
I once had a glimpse of a true unicorn. I was flying through Frankfurt and was walking through the terminal and on a stand was an e60 M5 touring. Silver with red interior. I seriously thought about relinquishing my US citizenship to live in Germany so I could dream of owning one. Manual 500hp V10 wagons should not exist.
The e34 was light years ahead- tons of smooth power and torque, comfortable and fairly reliable- truly the first “modern” M-car IMO, but last of the hand-built. In ‘91, 1.4K were imported into the US, then we had a financial disaster. Mine is the ‘93 model year (there technically wasn’t a ‘92- just hold over ‘91’s) and only 222 were imported (or 224 depending on the sources the majority of which were Shwartz II like mine, few were made in other colors so the numbers are in the dozens for those). $63k was a shit ton of money in ‘93 and the market was soft. The Touring’s (in UK and EU) were very rare as they had to be custom ordered- and even more expensive.
When the e39 M5 hit the market in 2000, people dumped their e34’s for the V8 monster and they sat at their nadir for a decade or more.
Not until the last 5 years have people started to catch on to what magnificent cars there are (last of the naturally aspirated 6-cyl in a 5’er) and sadly many have been sent to the crusher as they were beaters for a decade or more (cheap M5, couldn’t afford to maintain it- let it rot).
I haven’t been active on the M5 forums in a while, but I am curious how many of the 222 US imports still exist.
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Archer
··Omega Qualified WatchmakerWhile German (and, by extension, E.U.) citizenship would be terrific, it may be cheaper to visit the BMW museum in Munich. I was there many years ago. I almost genuflected as I passed a late 50’s 507 (Elvis’s, I believe).
As for @JwRosenthal’s lovely rig, I can almost smell the eau de Bimmer.
The museum is fantastic...highly recommended.
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Scarecrow Boat
··Burt Macklin, FBICruising through Germany
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MRC
·Today:
Triumph TR5 on trailer
Morris Minor Convertible with top down
Chevy Corvette, maybe early naughties
Something I first thought was a Tesla but it read F e r r a r i across the back
Camera in pocket every time as they went by, of course 😡
Triumph TR5 on trailer
Morris Minor Convertible with top down
Chevy Corvette, maybe early naughties
Something I first thought was a Tesla but it read F e r r a r i across the back
Camera in pocket every time as they went by, of course 😡
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JwRosenthal
·I can almost smell the eau de Bimmer.
My 16 year old Audi just recently developed the old VW smell. When it started to develop in the last year or so, I got smacked with the memory of riding around in my friend’s 67 VW bug in high school.
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dsio
··Ash @ ΩFFunny you mention that, they do have a smell. My e3 and E9 both had the same smell. But that was different from my e28 or my e34 (e34 still smells like leather actually).
My closest friend has my ex-wife’s e30 (long story) which has the heavy musty old BMW smell ( The smell of the vinyl trying to migrate back to Munich).
My 16 year old Audi just recently developed the old VW smell. When it started to develop in the last year or so, I got smacked with the memory of riding around in my friend’s 67 VW bug in high school.
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Alpha
··Kilt Owner, Beagle Parent, Omega CollectorA family friend who does restorations reckons the smell in those old German cars whether BMW Mercedes or Porsche is the seat padding material is rubberized horse hair which breaks down and off-gasses forever, and you can still get it because of demand for that authentic smell as its used by saddle makers among others even today. I’ve sat in an early Mercedes he’s done a bare metal restoration on and the smell is 100% there and smell because of the fresh padding he uses.
Early Minis also had a distinctive smell, damp and mould 🙁
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·My father’s ‘74 Rolls had a very distinctive leather and tobacco smell (as he was a heavy smoker back then). I have caught whiff of it on occasion in a few other cars and it’s insane how the olfactory has a direct connection to emotional memory.
