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"Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney" (braddelaparker) 01/18/2015 at 21:54 • Filed to: e30, touring, bmw

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Wrapping up a round of very light post-processing of photos I took of my E30 Touring yesterday to get it ready to go on eBay. I'll post the rest tomorrow. Sure is a pretty car.

Brian Silvestro > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 01/18/2015 at 21:57

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So lovely, that car.

I've been seeing them pop up for sale here more and more, hopefully they stay around $10k, because I want one.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Brian Silvestro 01/18/2015 at 22:07

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I'd be happy with $1ok for mine, and honestly I think it's a fair price point for them. It's tough to find minty cars overseas as they were family workhorses. Even in Germany and the Netherlands, minty cars are already seeing a premium applied.

The real unicorns are good condition cars with both A/C and a 5-speed. Nearly an impossible combo to find. Those are already $12k+ cars.

Brian Silvestro > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 01/18/2015 at 22:11

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Yeah the a/c is a huge selling point from what I've seen.

a/c is great...

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Brian Silvestro 01/18/2015 at 22:14

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As a Texan I'm a natural-born A/C aficionado, and duurtlang and I searched high and low for an A/C equipped car but they just don't exist over there. I wound up settling for no A/C and an automatic in order to get the nicest body and interior possible. A/C and the stick are easier fixes than rust, which is a huge issue on cars that were family trucksters and have some particularly rust-prone areas.

Brian Silvestro > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 01/18/2015 at 22:25

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wow I wonder why so few are optioned with a/c, strange. It's not like it's cold all the time there.

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > Brian Silvestro 01/18/2015 at 22:48

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A few reasons, the most notable of which is the combination of the general slowness in European uptake on A/C as standard (still not the case across the board, but only in the cheapest of cars), the climate with respect to the point in time (even in the US A/C was certainly not a standard item at all in the late 1980s), and the fact that most of these were middle class family cars, which means that most of the time they were low-option models without many frills that were designed for hauling crap and kids, not ultimate comfort.

What's odd about my car is that it was ordered with the automatic (definitely a comfort upgrade), power front windows, power locks, a sunroof, and a CD player (in 1989!), yet it doesn't have A/C. Mine actually appears to be about as optioned-up as most of these cars came outside of the A/C.

smore > Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney 05/25/2015 at 22:35

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Did this touring sell?

Bob Loblaw Made Me Make a Phoney Phone Call to Edward Rooney > smore 05/26/2015 at 10:18

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It did, back in February.