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Thread: Thinking about selling my 90 535i - anyone regret selling their e34?

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    The license plate in TN is only $48 for the BMW, unlike the $180 I was spending in Michigan, so that is not a big deal. But I pay $70 a month or so to insure it - would be good to drop it down.
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    I've always known their too good to offload... that'w why I keep ALL mine, except my first e28 which an insurance company stole from me when I was a kid.

    I've still got them all, makes about 5 e34s now, an e39 (going), an e28 and an e46. My favorite is the older 88 e34 535i, like most who own one, it just 'has something' no other car has. The e28 is awesome too, in other ways. The 540i/6, different again.

    The e46 is much more refined in most ways, but 'misses something', my guess is that it was a connection and a spirit in which the design and engineering teams did their work back in the 1980s. We'll never have it again, I've driven so many new cars, they all feel like appliances, even the rocketshipfast ones...

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    Hagerty insurance agreed to cover the BMW. $157 a year for full coverage - that makes it easier to hold on to. I doubt I will go as far as an antique plate, don't need any police hassle if I take the thing out mid day on a Tuesday and run into a cop with a chip on his shoulder.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Derek A. View Post
    The license plate in TN is only $48 for the BMW, unlike the $180 I was spending in Michigan, so that is not a big deal. But I pay $70 a month or so to insure it - would be good to drop it down.
    $70.00 Why so much? I'm paying just under $40.00 but only have comp, no full coverage.

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    Quote Originally Posted by genphreak View Post
    I've always known their too good to offload... that'w why I keep ALL mine, except my first e28 which an insurance company stole from me when I was a kid.

    I've still got them all, makes about 5 e34s now, an e39 (going), an e28 and an e46. My favorite is the older 88 e34 535i, like most who own one, it just 'has something' no other car has. The e28 is awesome too, in other ways. The 540i/6, different again.

    The e46 is much more refined in most ways, but 'misses something', my guess is that it was a connection and a spirit in which the design and engineering teams did their work back in the 1980s. We'll never have it again, I've driven so many new cars, they all feel like appliances, even the rocketshipfast ones...
    yes something about a 535.I have driven a e34 540/6 and a e39 540/6 speed the ywere both impresive,the e34 540 my pick but they were just TOO nice .The 535 make you grin!
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    Quote Originally Posted by genphreak View Post
    I've always known their too good to offload... that'w why I keep ALL mine, except my first e28 which an insurance company stole from me when I was a kid.

    I've still got them all, makes about 5 e34s now, an e39 (going), an e28 and an e46. My favorite is the older 88 e34 535i, like most who own one, it just 'has something' no other car has. The e28 is awesome too, in other ways. The 540i/6, different again.

    The e46 is much more refined in most ways, but 'misses something', my guess is that it was a connection and a spirit in which the design and engineering teams did their work back in the 1980s. We'll never have it again, I've driven so many new cars, they all feel like appliances, even the rocketshipfast ones...
    yes something about a 535.I have driven a e34 540/6(three actually) and a e39 540/6 speed they were both impresive,the e34 540 my pick but they were just TOO nice .The 535 make you grin!
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    Quote Originally Posted by bimmer nut View Post
    Dang it, I shoulda looked you up Paul. Check it out, I was just down there:
    http://www.crappie.com/crappie/list....Slab-s-Stories

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    my 535 now has classic insurance on it, only can drive 9000 ks a year but only costs $100 au full comprehensive with buy back option per year so all good, the 540i is a different story nearly $ 700 a year full comprehensive and not yet eligible for classic insurance. I m going to buy a bigger home soon with a custom large garage specifically so I don't have to consider the awful questions of to keep or not to

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    Don't do it...the Corvette yes! ( UGLY body and lacking Performance IMHO)

    A goods friend who is now retired had a 1991 535 auto with only 80K on it. it was time for radiator, upper control arms, cat & muffler and the rear windows were not working( hard grease in the gears)

    anyway she sold it for 3K and bought a Honda Leaf and said the BWN was 100% better in everyway in needing condition


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    Quote Originally Posted by mattyb View Post
    my 535 now has classic insurance on it, only can drive 9000 ks a year but only costs $100 au full comprehensive with buy back option per year so all good, the 540i is a different story nearly $ 700 a year full comprehensive and not yet eligible for classic insurance. I m going to buy a bigger home soon with a custom large garage specifically so I don't have to consider the awful questions of to keep or not to
    Put a narrow grille on the 540i, call it a 89 535i replica.

    This strategy worked for a guy I chatted to selling a 535i a couple years ago when it was 22 years old but of course he had to change nothing.

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