1990 325i Sport in auction on Saturday with no reserve

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ChrisHC
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Tue Jan 24, 2017 7:57 pm

Details are here http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/c ... uary-2017/
Could be a chance for someone to pick up a bargain
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 4:58 pm

No-one got a bargain here.

Sold for £18900 including the buyers premium!
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 5:20 pm

Apparently it was the auction owners car!
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 6:17 pm

Thats a fantastic sale !!! I was at the auction and had a really good look over the car . I thought it presented well but by no means cherished. Would need work to bring up to Condition A. Remove the bodykit and get into the quarters and who knows what work would be needed to repair / restore. Well sold.....
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 7:28 pm

Fal_325i wrote:Apparently it was the auction owners car!
Bit of shill bidding going on then no doubt :)
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Tue Jan 31, 2017 10:59 pm

Agree with the post above. I was looking at going to view that car, but it only arrived there at 6pm the night before the auction. I'm a bit suspicious about that one - did it really sell for that amount when it had no service history from 60,000 miles and it's now on 110,000.
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Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:11 am

Never mind the E30, check out the epic Vanden Plas 1500 :cool:

http://www.angliacarauctions.co.uk/en/c ... uary-2017/
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Wed Feb 01, 2017 12:50 pm

That certainly does not look like a genuine price.
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Wed Feb 01, 2017 2:49 pm

I was bidding via the phone, the rate at which the bids went up was ridiculous!
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Wed Feb 01, 2017 7:11 pm

Yep - I've just lost my faith in that company now, especially since someone said that it was the auctioneers own car. Lets see if they happen to have another E30 325i Sport 2 in their next auction.

Their is a nice grey one for sale on pistonheads for £17K, with good service history from a dealer which means you get a short warranty. Why would you spend more on a lesser car at an auction where your warranty is a grand total of zero!? You can't drive them either, what if you find it jumps out of gear and the clutch is slipping and it consumes loads of oil and water - tough luck it's an auction!

The more I think about it, the less it makes sense - I'm convinced it was a bogus sale to give the impression of higher values.
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