golgol

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• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 7 hours

  

  The shell looks remarkably okay given where its parked but I imagine the underside is hiding all sorts of horrors. Its matters not though; I managed to get hold of the owner over the weekend - "the car is not for sale". Not even interested to hear what I might offer him.

  I should have made a bet him that it'll still be there in a year. If he moves it I'll pay him £500, if he doesn't I get the car.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 1 day

  

  Went to look at the 405 again this afternoon. Looks like it was last on the road in 2004 based on the tax disc and a peek inside shows its on 140k miles. I'm guessing theres a probably a (mechanical) reason why it was parked up in 2004 and doesn't look to have moved since.

  Found a few clues as to who might own it so will see if I can get in touch to find out more.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 2 days

  

  howmanyleft tells me there are only 7 of any variant of the 405 mi16 taxed and on the road.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 2 days

  

  I think the 2.0 was introduced in 1992 and this one was registered in Oct '91 so may well be a series one. Been doing some reading over night and I do really like the idea of restoring it... that would mean figuring out who owns it and them agreeing to sell it to me for a reasonable amount.

  There's no MOT information about it online which means the earliest it was last on the road was 15 years ago.

  The drivers window was open so I'll stick my head in today to see if there any clues.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 2 days

  

  Speaking of old french tat.. Found this on an extended walk with the dog this afternoon.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 months

  

  If the former isn't dependent on the later why not.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 months

  

  Guess its similar for any big powerful german barge of similar age.

  No ones buying them new with cash either are they.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 months

  

  E63's look to be phenomenal value at the moment.

  £80k+ cars new 5 years ago with sub-50k miles now at £27k.

  15% depreciation a year for those lucky 1st/2nd owners.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 months

  

  Wow - I thought 'clocking' cars was a thing of the past, especially in the more specialist end of the market. Doesn't something like this show up on the MOT history?

  Yours sounds a sensible price but as you've said, your challenge will be finding someone who appreciates the extensive work thats been done.

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 months

  

  So hard to value, especially with so little stock for sale in the second hand market right now to be able to compare. If I wasn't piling money into a knackered old e34 I'd be interested.

  I know you've spent a boatload and I'm not sure there's a better person to buy a car from so good luck with the sale. Does this mean you're set on the E63?