Stunning E23..

Post Fri Nov 26, 2010 7:54 pm

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1983-BMW-735-E23- ... 4cf3645995

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 6:57 am

Wasn't Topless thinking of smoking one around?

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:24 am

nice cant decide wether the back end looks as if its sitting low?

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 11:27 am

Does no on else think the pictures make it look like a very detailed miniture model? I had to look a few times, then read the description to be sure...

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 1:47 pm

Third time it's breen up on ebay in recent months...

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:13 pm

Jim320i wrote: Does no on else think the pictures make it look like a very detailed miniture model? I had to look a few times, then read the description to be sure...

I thought the same lol!

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:22 pm

what a nice old turd,

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:24 pm

e30topless wrote:what a nice old turd,

Go on,go on,you know you want too......

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:30 pm

I used to smoke about in a zinnobar E23 735i, the fuel bill was shocking
it cost me almost a grand for an aftermarket exhaust and that was nearly 10 years ago !

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:35 pm

e30topless wrote:I used to smoke about in a zinnobar E23 735i, the fuel bill was shocking
it cost me almost a grand for an aftermarket exhaust and that was nearly 10 years ago !

Feeble excuses!

Exhausts and tyres have got cheaper over the years.....honest...

Fuel? LPG FTW!

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:47 pm

i really hate the colour green but that car is beautifull

Post Sat Nov 27, 2010 10:51 pm

That is a very clean example!

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:07 am

This a seriously cool car to roll around the block in.

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:18 am

That's pretty lush!

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 12:04 pm

Agate green ftw!

Doesn't look a bad turd.

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:23 pm

Andyboy wrote:Agate green ftw!

Doesn't look a bad turd.

I doubt you'd find a much better E23 than that. I was trying to convince Rav to buy it when he got the Audi!

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 2:53 pm

I like it- a proper old gaffers motor

The fuel bill would shock me though but it would be great

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 5:39 pm

When I think of some I threw away.

The 1983 NEC motor show 728iSE, light metallic green with olive green leather, built 1983 but registered August 1984. The last one I had was a 1982 Y plate 732i in light metallic blue (Sapphireblau) with really basic spec - steels with chrome rings, wind up windows. It was collected from the first owner in Munich and driven to the UK. It was such a straight car when I had it in 2003 but the torque converter seal blew and I just weighed it in. Mind you, it'd be worth f*ck all now even if I'd kept it.

My first E23 was a 1977 R reg 728 4 speed manual (carb), in Cypress green, Not bad when you're only 19 (this was 1987....)

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 6:55 pm

I could not believe to imagine how cool driving that at 19 was.

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 8:52 pm

classy shape, I might keep an eye on this auction, always had a soft spot for them,

saw my first e34 745 turbo the other day that was slight inspiration...

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 9:05 pm

Does anyone remember the one in Miami Vice?

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 10:17 pm

Looks great and is of course cool as the other side of the pillow.

Are the alloys original BMW cross spokes? They just don't look quite right to me...

Estimated mpg on a motorway run?

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 10:39 pm

George wrote:Estimated mpg on a motorway run?

M30B35 dragging a big lump of a car round. 20-25mpg? But what presence!!

Post Sun Nov 28, 2010 11:32 pm

Blitz wrote:I could not believe to imagine how cool driving that at 19 was.

Oh yes. It was a part ex at the local dodgy used car dealership in Thatcham next to where my Dad started his first business in 1986. It had been really demolished down one side, badly repaired and the filler was an inch thick in places - the fuel filler flap was actually recessed.

I polished it up so well that you could get seasick looking down the side of it. She was properly rippled.
It was an R plater with about 200'000 miles, no MOT*,shagged drivers seat...................but what a cool chariot and E23's were still just about current. I had to sell it because it did about 16 mpg and I just couldn't afford to run it.

* Didn't matter then. You just left the old MOT overnight in brake fluid to wash out the ink, rinse it under the hot tap, dry it, iron it and write it out again. Those were indeed the days.

Post Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:34 am

Andyboy wrote:

* Didn't matter then. You just left the old MOT overnight in brake fluid to wash out the ink, rinse it under the hot tap, dry it, iron it and write it out again. Those were indeed the days.

YOU as well?

Gave me a proper laugh!

Post Mon Nov 29, 2010 8:49 am

daimlerman wrote:
Andyboy wrote:

* Didn't matter then. You just left the old MOT overnight in brake fluid to wash out the ink, rinse it under the hot tap, dry it, iron it and write it out again. Those were indeed the days.
YOU as well?

Gave me a proper laugh!

the good old days...when you could buy a blank test certificate in the pub !

Post Mon Nov 29, 2010 2:32 pm

daimlerman wrote:
Andyboy wrote:

* Didn't matter then. You just left the old MOT overnight in brake fluid to wash out the ink, rinse it under the hot tap, dry it, iron it and write it out again. Those were indeed the days.
YOU as well?

Gave me a proper laugh!

Apparently you could do the same to a tax disc you found in a scrapyard with a month or so left to run.

Apparently.

Post Thu Dec 02, 2010 10:36 pm

Blitz wrote:Does anyone remember the one in Miami Vice?

LOOKS NICE. I am too young to remember Miami Vice but these look nice.

Would not mind the motor.

I think it has a STUNNING HISTORY being 2-owner car. The history and photographs of the car are STUNNING.

For a £1000 it is fairly cheap.

Wonder how much more work it needs doing e.g. servicing, brakes, suspension, rust etc?

Anyone know the fuel consumption MPG for this car? Considering my BMW E30 325i Sport does 12 - 20mpg i wonder what the fuel bills on this would be. A GREAT car for a COLLECTOR though.

Post Fri Dec 03, 2010 12:58 pm

Well I am new here and am restoring an E23 728I, when it is finished I will start looking for an E30. Here are some pics of it

when i picked it up

wheels to be fitted

some of the body work

and the repairs

hope to get it in high build primer this weekend and maybe some colour, then just a fuel leek and handbrake to sort out before MOT

I have had this car for 10 days and already I love it

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Post Fri Dec 03, 2010 5:54 pm

These things are cool, this era is the true definition of the term retro. wasn't the immaculate green one at gaydon? if not there was one almost identical there i'm sure of it!

Post Fri Dec 03, 2010 9:45 pm

e23stefan wrote:Well I am new here and am restoring an E23 728I, when it is finished I will start looking for an E30. Here are some pics of it

when i picked it up

I have had this car for 10 days and already I love it .

Blimey, an old 3 speed auto. I had one, NEG633W in Chestnut red with tan velours and the steel wheels with the stainless trim rings. It was absolutely savage in fuel (20 mpg tops) but went quite well. I bought it in 1997 for £150. It was as rough as a bears arse with knackered door bottoms so it was given the P40 and 'undersealed up to the doorhandles' treatment.
Yours looks like Cypress green...?

Post Fri Dec 03, 2010 10:43 pm

Not sure what the colour is yet, as I said I have only had it 10 days not even had time for a good look through the history file which is very thick

I paid £170 for this on but i am only expecting 20ish mpg maybe 25 on a run but my other half has the family car and I have my work van so will not do massive milage in it.