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On C&C.

How nice is this -

http://www.carandclassic.co.uk/car/C232783

That does look good - manual box in a 3.5 isn't common either.

Mmm tasty. I never used to like these old girls - a bit slab sided. They are growing on me and are stupidly cheap and quite plentiful here. Not seen a manual though.
How do the electrics hold up on these?

not bad, the a/c does fail though over time. They were spec'd up well though so you could get a gem.

That looks very nice. Chestnut red, and being a 9/80 registered car it's probably an original pre Motronic engine as well - they used to go like f*ck. That would give a 325i a proper nosebleed.

If it's as nice as it looks, that's worth the asking price.

that is awesome....did they ever facelift the E23?

Funny enough. talking about e23's I just pulled up along side this about 30 mins ago:



Excuse the shit shot. Taken on blackberry. Car was truly mint!

I wonder if a boxer owns it!

they look so crap.

Simon13 wrote:they look so crap.

Who let the little ray of sunshine in?

Simon13 wrote:they look so crap.

You talk crap......

These are the shizzle, proper gansta

i do, the styling is very odd, its not right, cohesive. They look rear ended before anythings actually hit them. The fact none are left comfirms no one else cares about e23s either.

oh and it pissed down all day so no, there was no sunshine.

I'd be cruising all day long in that bad boy - did they come with a slipper ?

i'd be on the bus

Simon13 wrote:i do, the styling is very odd, its not right, cohesive. They look rear ended before anythings actually hit them. The fact none are left comfirms no one else cares about e23s either.

I'd say that's a very handsome car...

Like the black one in the pic above! What was that, M version??

No M version of the E23. Even the SA spec 745i with the M88 was never designated "M".

The advertised one is a lovely car. I haven't seen it, but I have spoken to the owner - just after he bought it.

They did facelift the E23. Somewhere between '82X and '84B.

Slight differences around the rear bumper, the A post gutter trim, some interior differences - not much, just slightly more modern - but different. The facelift lost all the interior chrome. Auto boxes were 4hp22 rather than 3. I prefer the earlier one - it looks and feels more "classy". In the same way that an E12 based six is a much more up market interior than the later e28 one.

9TKO above is a facelift as is the black one pictured above.

I'd expect any 735i manual would have an LSD. That was certainly the case with contemporary 535 and 635 models.

Simon13 wrote:i'd be on the bus

Yeah. The f*cking Sunshine bus with all the the other window lickers!

B7 wrote:

Simon13 wrote:i'd be on the bus

Yeah. The f*cking Sunshine bus with Stevie and all the other window lickers!

snakebrain wrote:

Simon13 wrote:i do, the styling is very odd, its not right, cohesive. They look rear ended before anythings actually hit them. The fact none are left comfirms no one else cares about e23s either.

I'd say that's a very handsome car...

and modified somewhat.

Simon13 wrote:

snakebrain wrote:

Simon13 wrote:i do, the styling is very odd, its not right, cohesive. They look rear ended before anythings actually hit them. The fact none are left comfirms no one else cares about e23s either.

I'd say that's a very handsome car...

and modified somewhat.

With Simon on this,the original XJ6 was a competitor to E23,and very much better looking.

Thing is though, an E23 stands a chance of completing a long trip! I prefer the Series 2 XJ by a long shot though - I saw a mint Greensand Daimler DoubleSix Coupe at a car show last week. A stunning car that I would own just to sit in it/look at it. Kent alloys, black vinyl roof, the whole 9 yards
Regular E23's made interesting bangers, but a serious money example has to be special, such as a 735i manual or a 745i. Otherwise it's a big old shed. E32's will reach classic status before these (@ 2056)

Daimler Double Six coupes were very rare - Less than 10 IIRC.

I had an '76P XJ4.2C for a wee while in the late 80s. Lovely car. Unfortunately by the mid 70s it was a BL car and build quality was inconsistent to say the least. Mine had a propensity to rust, drink fuel, and devour rear wheel bearings. However, it was quick, fairly reliable, comfortable, luxurious and looked brilliant, particularly with all the windows down.

An E23 is far better built, out of far better components and far better engineered.

Blitz wrote:http://www.pistonheads.com/sales/2938169.htm

That was on ebay and PH for about £5k only a month or so ago!

Love em!

Here's that black one again

cecotto479 wrote:Daimler Double Six coupes were very rare - Less than 10 IIRC.

I had an '76P XJ4.2C for a wee while in the late 80s. Lovely car. Unfortunately by the mid 70s it was a BL car and build quality was inconsistent to say the least. Mine had a propensity to rust, drink fuel, and devour rear wheel bearings. However, it was quick, fairly reliable, comfortable, luxurious and looked brilliant, particularly with all the windows down.

An E23 is far better built, out of far better components and far better engineered.

This one was an S plate, so was one of the last. I had a few seventies Jags back in the day including a 3.4 saloon and a couple of V12 XJ-s's. One had been Ziebarted and was absolutely straight and rot free, the other hadn't and required a tart up job when it was 6 years old and a full body rebuild when it was 11 - wings, sills, arches, the usual.
BMW's were better made, but time is a great leveller and they're all rusty scrap now. The XJ is a more worthy rebuild cause because a good one is such a special car and the E23 is a tad characterless - unless it's a manual 735i of course.

Andyboy wrote: BMW's were better made, but time is a great leveller and they're all rusty scrap now. The XJ is a more worthy rebuild cause because a good one is such a special car and the E23 is a tad characterless - unless it's a manual 735i of course.

This sums up the crazy world of classic car ownership!

been seeing a lot of these 4* cars adds lately, are the cars advertised really as clean as in the pics or is their some special effects/ photo shopping going on,

seems like my car is never gonna look that good

they're just full of sh!t, and bullsh!t sells. The studio shots can hide a number of sins and make the turds look better than they are

They buy extremely clean cars then detail the hell out of them and have the pics done by professional photographers. I don't think there's any doubt that they only carry top quality stock.

and you know this for a fact? their C2 cab wasn't top quality and thats just one car i know of.

8,000 for an e23? 13,000 for an alpina e32?

I can't be arsed having an argument. You've been having a go at anyone who comes near you all week..

A large amount of their "stock" is on a commission sale basis - at 20% + VAT PLUS a further £400 for the detailing and a further dditional fee for the photography.

They have had some spectacular results - a White 635 CSi Highline at over £20000 springs to mind.

that e23 is just as good in the metal as those pics show (if not better), it was not far from me and is stunning, but £9k? Maybe someone will buy cars at these prices.