Good evening all, this is my first post here at bf.c. I've lurked for a while. I've been after an e34 for a while, but tonight I missed out on the deal of a lifetime and figured now was as good a time as ever to say hi. I was hunting the local listings on autotrader and such as always, and came across this listing.

A guy had this car that he didn't anything know about. An Alpina b9 3.5, cloth interior, all original, with an extra set of wheels, and the kicker, 81,xxx KM. He only wanted $5k obo!!!!! My jaw hit the floor, and I emailed asap. Turns out that in under an hour of putting up his for sale ad he'd received over a dozen emails with offers way over his asking price, so he's taking it down and researching what the car actually is before he sells it.

How much would you guys say its worth, anyways? It looked pretty much mint. No paint blemishes, all original, yadda yadda.

And hello!

Well, if you look on the alpina registry, one is for sale for 4k pounds, so that might be an indicator. I don't know if the guy is legit, but it seems worth pursuing. Oh and welcome, new user.

wow. 4k GBP, and due to the MOT and all of that the cars are much much cheaper over there. m5's go for 5k GBP... and over here, much more than that. I hope it pans out. Seems to be a hell of a find.

Oh it'll pan out... for me.

huh? what do you mean?

Check this out:

http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=45253

Check this out:

http://www.mye28.com/viewtopic.php?t=45253

Yes, well you beat me to that. It is a pretty pathetic scam if I say so myself.

Why the hell would the man's father who had it imported not tell him what it was? Pretty damn stupid if I say so.

that sucks. the "seller" from the atlanta CL ad sent me a picture of the ID plate which showed that it was #70. dunno if that matches up with the French restoration thread. if it does, thats awful.

edit: it does. lame. oh well.

Damn, he totally had me going though.

I also saw that ad. I said the same thing WOW!!! There is one for sale in Roundel mag for $30,000.00