I few years ago, I bought an e28 535is sport seat from Evan. After seeing pictures of the seat, over the phone, I made him an offer for the seat and he accepted. I was only able to come late in the evening on a work day. I drove 125 miles to pick up the seat. He not only made the time for me at 8:00pm, but he showed me his garage and his then huge car collection. I've never seen a 3.0csi up close in personal. I've never seen an e30 rag top... whatever you call it. I've never bothered to look at 2002s until I got to see a stunning 2002tii in person. I didn't know how cool looking alpina wheels are until I saw them in person. It was there, staring at several 3.0csi's and the yellow one for a long time where I fell in love with the e9. I asked him all kinds of questions and he not only answered them, but also gave some history about the cars I asked.
Ok. So I didn't buy a $20K car from him, but it was a cool experience to stand in his garage surrounded by what I thought were stunning cars. And he was a cool guy to talk to also.