"Turner950s" (Turner950s)
10/29/2013 at 01:58 • Filed to: Cannonball Cars
1
9|
"Turner950s" (Turner950s)
10/29/2013 at 01:58 • Filed to: Cannonball Cars | 1
| 9 |
Asking $3800 with new tires, "rims", brakes and clutch.
!!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
Cannonball Cars is the tag where I try and find a car that can be bought cheap on the west coast and sold for a profit on the east coast. Does this Teutonic sans Tiptronic fit the bill?
Manuél Ferrari
> Turner950s
10/29/2013 at 02:05 |
|
I'm an hour away. I wish it was actually in Orange County and not in Oceanside. I'd go look at it for you.
offroadkarter
> Turner950s
10/29/2013 at 02:05 |
|
With a manual to?
10/10 would drive
|
Turner950s
> Manuél Ferrari
10/29/2013 at 02:23 |
|
I wouldn't actually be making the trip back until the school year ends, so I don't think I'm in the market just yet. Just testing the waters.
|
Manuél Ferrari
> Turner950s
10/29/2013 at 02:34 |
|
I can be your So Cal tester. Wouldn't take much to bribe me to go check out cars before you fly out here.
BTW is my 2004 E46 M3 with 35,000 miles on it worth a lot more where you are? It's for sale :)
|
Turner950s
> Manuél Ferrari
10/29/2013 at 02:50 |
|
Haha I'm already here.
And I don't think that e46 is anywhere near my price range, pending that it hasn't been mauled by a bear or involved in a terrible wreck.
From what I've been seeing, gas-guzzling and/or classic cars prone to rust are the best options. Fuel in CA is expensive so V8 prices here are depressed, and rust is nonexistant so classic car prices are also depressed.
|
Manuél Ferrari
> Turner950s
10/29/2013 at 02:59 |
|
Oh I see, I thought you were on the east coast and planning on flying to CA to buy cars to drive home and sell.
That's true that we have the most rust-free cars here. And our gas prices do suck. That's why I moved closer to work. I'm not giving up my V8!
Alex87f
> Turner950s
10/29/2013 at 03:50 |
|
E34, 4.0 V8, 6MT, recent maintenance, 3 800$?
NP!
GhostZ
> Turner950s
10/29/2013 at 04:14 |
|
CP. They were Nikasil-lined engines, and since you can't really control where you'll be filling up, I would assume it's going strong still if it made it this far, but I wouldn't trust it cross-country where you can't control where and what you fill up with with much regularity. It's not like a part can be replaced either, it's the block itself that needs to go if the cylinder walls fail.
BUT... if there are service records that show the cylinder liners were clean up until recently (by the merit of using low sulfur fuel) then NP.
rabidpenguin
> GhostZ
10/29/2013 at 13:03 |
|
I would think if the car has 150k miles that BMW has already replaced the nikasil block under the recall.