Sixty8panther

Yeah, that's effin annoying. I'm on it like Flys on stink. Actually not really cause right now I'm off to bed. I had an exhausting day. Did a lot of work underneath the dash/instrument panel of the BMW. I swear I have never seen a car with 89,000 miles that had so much broken on the interior... someone really abused this thing. I will keep my eyes peeled for you. One more quick note... the wrong-fluid theory Caprice mentioned may be partially to bame but my friend's grandfather had a 1994 Eagle Vision with the 3.2 and the trans blew at 24k miles, no prior service or problems....

The BlackViper Manor: Where cars come to die. 1st it was the Grand Am Now it's a Mazda Millenia, G-body Cutty Coupe & VW Jetta.

Wow... sad day indeed when this is posted on a GM forum. Sadder day still when it's posted by the founding member. Damn straight.

Yeah DF, buy a salvage-title 300M that was hit in the ass so hard the windshield popped out.

Pre-War SUV.

Wow.... caddycruiser gotz a Gee-Ate? I'm jealous!

Those right there are IT for 2009 GM cars w/ a backseat that I care about, the rest can rot & crush for all I care. So true. MAXIMUM reward, minimum co$t.

I do not plan to buy new for at least another 5 years, but either way I'd buy NEW non-GM in a heartbeat so long as it was everything I wanted, and I'm picky. The new Gen.5 Camaro (even with its B-pillar ) is certainly a worthy new car, but if GM did not exist, as much as this would have SHOCKED & ANGERED my 2002 or 1997 self, I'd buy a Mercedes CLK or Dodge Charger/Challenger or maybe even a Mustang GT. ---- But chances are I'll buy something from the 1960s as soon as the 'Burb sells.

Gross.... now THAT is EPIC_FAIL! BTW: A.M. you of all people should KNOW that blob is 46" too high to be a Lagonda! Evil Knievel is gonna kick your square in the rears!

Yeah.... I do NOT have any buyer's remorse, I love this thing. Bought the BEST pair of front brake pads at NAPA last night, since he DIC keeps telling me the car's in need of them, and they me back a WHOLE $52.00. Yeah, that's about $3.00 more than for a Taurus or Camry or what not.... who's laughing NOW?!

Yeah, video games are fun.... Gran Turismo 1-4, Heroes of the Pacific... but if you stop living your life to PLAY 24/7 in a virtual one, well, the word PATHETIC comes to mind.

Cool post. Balthazar: I love the car-carrier Idea!

Yes, prob. as 63% of a Toyota Tacoma. (I'm sure it got junked/crushed)

There were no winners in this Jousting Competition.

My '68 Camaro hit a guardrail as well (see photo above) But thank God it was more hard angle sideswipe, not an impalement like the new-style BMW 3. That's like a train wreck.... I can't look away. I have a morbid curiosity. Once I spent like 2hrs. on Rotten.com I thought Ford Cosworth (Escort) RS2000... it might be a more tame FWD/transverse mounted motor POS run of the mill Escort, but it's NOT a BMW.

O.B. makes me LoL!!!

It's confusing the whole TALL gear versus. SHORT. The simpe part is the physics of it... gear ratios are all math, once you've settled on a final drive it WILL determine mpg/0-60/top speed & that's that.... you can't really call even the 300M to be a gas hog though, so I say to hell with it, just get the 3.5 with the shortest gear trans.

BEST COOLEST BMW EVAR! It's a classic It's a BMW It's a HARDTOP 'Nuf said! I love the crazy CSL racecars as well but the rollcage ruins the lines. If I could buy one I'd design a "hardtop-style" rollcage for it.

Here's a personal painful memory.

Thanks guys. See title of thread. The hardtop is not going ANYWHERE. That will be my new daily driver, at least until I sell the '95 Suburban. I passed on a navy-blue '86 BMW 6-series in favor of the M 500SEC, of course the MB's hardtop body-style was the deciding factor but the BMW was my backup plan.

I love it... but instead of the wrinkled 17-compound curve C-pillar just make it a hardtop-bubbletop.

Damn dude... [sorry] As they say, whenever one door closes another one opens. :wink: ---- The only electronic "modification" that a different ECM or other computer can do is to change the SHIFT points, like for instance when I gave you a ride in the 735iL and I romped on it a few times I forgot to click the button over to SPORT mode, and since it was left in ECONOMY mode it shifted well before its redline, even the times I gave it WOT. But as O.B. pointed out the guy prob. meant he did a motor & TRANS swap, thus changing out the gear ratio. Despite all of the electronic tom-foolery they try these days with new cars a computer cannot magically change the number of teeth in a metal gear. Same as displacement on demand does not make your V8 a V4, it just RUNS on four cylinders. I got lucky with my 25 year old Mercedes, even oil starvation could not kill that beast of a car... although the SOHC V8 does have quite the tick. The Panzer Hardtop is at 204,000 miles now.

Thanks everyone. I made an analogy to the Bismark with the Mercedes when we bought that but it wet right over Julie's head. I wrote a paper on that doomed ship & its inability to fire its antiaircraft guns below zero degrees to the waterline, which of course is what got it sunk on its "maiden voyage" since enemy aircraft could fly between the water line and the antiaircraft fire. Not Germany's finest moment. ---- So here's the scoop. The car was on Craigslist New Hampshire: The car was bought by its original owner in Virginia. Then in 2004 he moved to New Hampshire & had it retitled there, keeping the title from Virginia since New Hampshire does not require them for cars over 15 years old. At that point (2004) the car had 66,800 miles. He promptly managed to get it stuck in a nasty snowbank & did all the wrong things, resulting in a completely destroyed front, side & rear ground effects. The car is rust super-rust-free but the plastic/ & rubber below the belt line is DESTROYED! Mean time the current owner, a young computer geek living in the sticks of New Hampshire, listed it for sale as being in HAVERHILL. I assumed, as most people that called him, that it was in Haverhill, MASSACHUSETTS... being a large city in Mass.... but in reality it was in Haverhill, NH. Haverhill, Mass is 16 miles away from my house, but Haverhill, NH is 146 miles away from me, so like most people who called this was an unpleasant surprise. Unlike most people who dread driving 146 miles through the White Mountains & past River City Junction, Vermont &almost to Canada.... I thought "Hell yeah, Amelia's first road trip!" The thing is, even though the car's interior was beat to $hit, and the ground effects had chunks of plastic MISSING & cracks running every which way, the car was a good deal at $1250. I can replace all the rubber & plastic of the bumper cover & rocker panel molding in 0.5% of the time it would take to replace or repair rusted body panels. Of course I started negotiating at $800 and we met half-way at exactly $1k. I slapped fifty $20 bills on his kitchen counter & drove off in one of the most solid & fun to drive cars I've ever had the pleasure to own OR drive. I mean this thing handles every bit as well as its legendary reputation makes it out... And although I have driven thousands of cars over the course of my years at all the dealerships, I only ever drove 3-series. This thing i on another PLANE compared to some beat-up high mileage 328i that's about to get traded in on a Tahoe Z71 by a drug dealer. (true story) The leather, door panels, rug & most wearable items are in good shape, on par with the 89,000 miles, but the thing is most anything inside the car that is fastened or clipped in like the blinker stalk, chewed up radio release screws, HV/AC, dome/ map lights & the under dash pad, are loose/broken or need to be re-assembled. It's almost as if the car's first owner (the one from Virginia) was a 6'11" tall basketball player who could not fit inside the car and did a "bull in a china shop" number on it. Either way, my $1000 purchase price, combined w/ another $1000 or so in parts/labor & some of my own time invested, will get us a clean, sharp & well cared for BMW 7-series. As far as how the car is mechanically... well I'll just say 125 feels like 85 in most cars. :AH-HA_wink: ---- BTW Dodgefan: the test drive I gave you was while the in trans was in "Economy Mode".

I'll post the details of the trip & the low-down on the car later, gotta run to Ups.

I was going to say "sharp little MG, what model is it exactly?" So here go my first three guesses: - 1932-ish Aston Martin? - 1935-ish Riley (something post-Broooklands) - 1930s Rover race car of some sort?