lost a bid for E32 750iL by 10 $

[shogun]

Wonderfull car, only 64 k km, so less than 40 k miles. Facelift M70 engine, nice interior.
Gone for 1.200 $ only in Japan.
http://img191.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/4/0/0/7/tetugon_512-img600x450-11583020941.jpg
http://img191.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/4/0/0/7/tetugon_512-img600x455-11583021333.jpg
http://img191.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/users/4/0/0/7/tetugon_512-img600x456-11583021172.jpg

My shadetree mechanic buddy quoted for us.

Well, there are more and cheap ones to get :D

[Espen]

Thats a nice piece of car.

And for that price even I could afford it!

Hmm Lefthand drive also, I thought there were only righthand drive cars in Japan.

Do you know the cost of transporting a car from Japan to Europe? If I could get a transport at $1500-$2000, the total would be about $3000+ for that car delivered to my door. Hmm.. I gave $5000 for my 525...:(

[Incantation]

darn.. now you're stuck with only .. what.. 12 of them?

[shogun]

Espen,

it is too expensive to ship such a cheap car to Europe. Already several people from the German board asked me and we checked it. Container freight out of Japan is very expensive, more than double the price from Europe to Japan, as there is a freight inbalance, they do not have enought containers at the moment in Japan. 1 Container costs roughly 2000 EURO, plus loading cost in Japan, unloading cost Europe. Then import duty, tax and the modification to EU standard. That costs you another 2000 at least. Then inspection cost for local MOT or whatever it is called in your country, parts for modification, such as LKM for EU, new taillight (jap. usually do not have rear fog lights), front and rear cable loom is different and so on.

[Ross]

I would so love to find one like that, especially at that price! Most here are very worn out. It's sad to see the condition most are in.
Twice that price buys little more than a junker here for some inexplicable reason.

[shogun]

It is a pitty for most of the owners, but for me good.
If they have a prob, they go to the dealer, they give them an estimate for more than 10 k $, and the reaction is selling the car.
I bought last year a 750iL Highline from a dealer in the country side, he did not know anything about the car. The owner of the car was his friend and he had to sell it. The owner was a dentist, but had no knowledge about cars.
Repair was too costly at the dealer.
Just to mention a few of the "costly" repairs I did without buying any spare parts or paying just a little bit:
twisted seat back, leaking engine oil (turned out to be overfilled Pentosin reservoir, that was one touch with my hand into the "oil" and seeing the color, then I knew it), no power = limpmode = still first rotors and distributors in from 1990, center piece in distributor was missing), and m,any other things you can solve when you know the car.
But who knows a 750 E32.
Today I got emails from South Africa, from Germany, from USA and I had to help someone here.
They are all lost without expertise.
The dealer makes a very big estimate and then the cars are dumped into the market.
Sometimes a simple distributor solves the problem, or they even do not know that a Highline has 2 alternators and 2 aircons and 2 batteries.
I know, I am an E32 idiot expert, but that is something.

[genphreak]

It is a pitty for most of the owners, but for me good.
If they have a prob, they go to the dealer, they give them an estimate for more than 10 k $, and the reaction is selling the car.
I bought last year a 750iL Highline from a dealer in the country side, he did not know anything about the car. The owner of the car was his friend and he had to sell it. The owner was a dentist, but had no knowledge about cars.
Repair was too costly at the dealer.
Just to mention a few of the "costly" repairs I did without buying any spare parts or paying just a little bit:
twisted seat back, leaking engine oil (turned out to be overfilled Pentosin reservoir, that was one touch with my hand into the "oil" and seeing the color, then I knew it), no power = limpmode = still first rotors and distributors in from 1990, center piece in distributor was missing), and m,any other things you can solve when you know the car.
But who knows a 750 E32.
Today I got emails from South Africa, from Germany, from USA and I had to help someone here.
They are all lost without expertise.
The dealer makes a very big estimate and then the cars are dumped into the market.
Sometimes a simple distributor solves the problem, or they even do not know that a Highline has 2 alternators and 2 aircons and 2 batteries.
I know, I am an E32 idiot expert, but that is something.You know we love reading of your work, but you know the question really is Erich, how many of these lost e32s can you afford to take in???

[shogun]

Oh, well, one of my frieinds is a very rich guy and a board member of one of the big japanese companies. He is driven by chaffeur to work with a japanese company car. But at home he has only old E32 Alpina and one E31 850.
Actually the warehouse I showed sometime ago with the many 750 and Alpina B12 5.0 is the one he bought and I can also store my cars there. There is space for >100 cars. Including a former office in second floor which he wants to convert in a living area with several bedrroms, so that we can stay overnight, as it is far away from our home.
He wants to keep the cars for a long time and maybe he wants to make an E32 exhibition later.
He can afford it, no problem, and he is kind enough to give me space for my cars. He does everything on his own and his garage at home is bigger than a stanadrd japanese appartment. With aircondition, lift to the living area, tools I can dream of. His favourite hobby is to repair clusters and electronic parts on the cars, as he once studied electronics. Here some pics:
http://www.bimmerboard.com/members/shogun/JB1visit5
http://www.bimmerboard.com/members/shogun/JB1%20visit3
a 20 ton press to press new suspension parts (bushes etc) in
http://www.bimmerboard.com/members/shogun/20tonhydropress
http://www.bimmerboard.com/members/shogun/clusterstockJB1
my grey 750 in front and some of his Alpina's with licence plate (registered), the others are stored away
http://www.bimmerboard.com/members/shogun/JB1visit4