Benji
Well-known member
I thought the day would never come, but belief, resilience, determination and sheer stubbornness have brought us to this point; the brilliant red E34 M5 is complete and sold! Thank heavens.
This car is singlehandedly responsible for 95% of the problems in my life. Wide eyed and wet behind the ears, myself and Mark bought this as a little track toy project; our first BMW as people who didnt like BMWs and made fun of BMW drivers with their apparent misunderstanding of indicator usage. How times have changed - we both now have too many cars and they are exclusively old and mostly broken BMWs! Not a moments regret, we have learnt so much, achieved some things, had a lot of fun and drank many a cold and late beer.
There is however, a fly in the ointment. The car has been sold to a family "friend", a central African businessman who has zero interest in cars and is the exact opposite of a fanatic. A drunken deal was made many years ago with the new owner buying the car site unseen and is getting it driven back to Zambia. I have full confidence that this will be a poorly running, swirlmark riddled and unmaintained car within a year. Sad, maybe, but money in the bank is money in the bank and a car is just a collection of parts. There is much confusion around why the buyer wants this car. Many questions are left unanswered.
Anyway, onto the important bits - the pictures. Kiran (ImaginativeAuto on this forum) detailed the car and did a fantastic job. I know this was a very challenging detail - I had given up trying to polish this car, I am actually not sure how he got it looking so good. He will be detailing all my cars in the future.
So there we have it; fully restored, no oil leaks, everything works, full service history, completely original (except for the radio) BMW legend, headed for the toilet as it were. Tear inducing stuff. Anyway, onwards and forwards. We have learnt a lot, made many friends, become better friends, had awesome experiences and made a decent profit at the end. These are all good things
This car is singlehandedly responsible for 95% of the problems in my life. Wide eyed and wet behind the ears, myself and Mark bought this as a little track toy project; our first BMW as people who didnt like BMWs and made fun of BMW drivers with their apparent misunderstanding of indicator usage. How times have changed - we both now have too many cars and they are exclusively old and mostly broken BMWs! Not a moments regret, we have learnt so much, achieved some things, had a lot of fun and drank many a cold and late beer.
There is however, a fly in the ointment. The car has been sold to a family "friend", a central African businessman who has zero interest in cars and is the exact opposite of a fanatic. A drunken deal was made many years ago with the new owner buying the car site unseen and is getting it driven back to Zambia. I have full confidence that this will be a poorly running, swirlmark riddled and unmaintained car within a year. Sad, maybe, but money in the bank is money in the bank and a car is just a collection of parts. There is much confusion around why the buyer wants this car. Many questions are left unanswered.
Anyway, onto the important bits - the pictures. Kiran (ImaginativeAuto on this forum) detailed the car and did a fantastic job. I know this was a very challenging detail - I had given up trying to polish this car, I am actually not sure how he got it looking so good. He will be detailing all my cars in the future.
So there we have it; fully restored, no oil leaks, everything works, full service history, completely original (except for the radio) BMW legend, headed for the toilet as it were. Tear inducing stuff. Anyway, onwards and forwards. We have learnt a lot, made many friends, become better friends, had awesome experiences and made a decent profit at the end. These are all good things
