![]() 04/10/2018 at 12:42 • Filed to: None | ![]() | ![]() |
Wrong hand drive. Hasn’t seen daylight in 5 years. Dubious description. No registration, no history, no keys, and apparently? no VIN.
If it was nearby I’d actually be tempted to take a look just for the hell of it.
https://www.carsales.com.au/private/details/BMW-850i-1991/SSE-AD-5374404/?Cr=0
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Where would you even start with that car? Probably buy it cheap and yank the engine/trans for a swap.
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No VIN? @sketchy
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Even then, old 750Lis are much easier to come by, and cheaper, if you were after an M73.
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I wouldn’t go near it. If it’s deceased estate then at least one set of keys should be around somewhere.
![]() 04/10/2018 at 13:04 |
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Yeah I’m not buying it. Seems like an easy way to shrug off sensitive questions. He knows what state it was imported into and has had it for 5 years, you would think he’d have found its keys by now.
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Less sketchy:
![]() 04/10/2018 at 13:17 |
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I always thought of ‘no keys’ as repossessed or stolen/stolen recovered.
No VIN sounds really suspicious but if it’s a JDM* vehicle the VIN will be really low on the passenger side under the windscreen wiper. Though also on a sticker under the cover for the ECU.
* For those not familiar. Not all JDMs are RHD, it’s common for those in Japan to buy LHD cars if the vehicle is a LHD vehicle, supposed to be more pure. Rather than a car originally LHD but made RHD.
![]() 04/10/2018 at 13:35 |
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I don’t see that specimen as having much value, especially if there’s no way to show that it isn’t stolen. At least it has its steering wheel on the correct side.
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Plenty more fun things I could do to get myself arrested or piss away all my money than with this thing.
![]() 04/10/2018 at 17:38 |
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It’ll have a VIN. But it won’t have any Australian compliance plates that would display it prominently. So I suspect that’s what old mate means...
No keys is probably more of a killer. That said it’d make a mad drift car....
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mmm.............who said stolen from Europe.