A buddy of mine (a big 02 guy) and I looked at this car a couple of months ago. A perfect example of that no matter how good the pictures look, you have to see it in person.
A guy had two e9s on ebay in our relatively small city just south of Portland Oregon. Since both of us thought we knew all of the older BMWs around we had to go look at them. Over the phone the owner discribed both cars as imaculate. When we got there, both cars were parked outside and it had just rained.
The 2800cs he had for sale was a disaster; black paint was not the orignal color (chipping off to some sort of red), homemade door panels, the list goes on... The only real positive, the factory alloys were perfect with new caps.
I was more interested in the csi. It looked great in the pictures, the description listed a fresh 7K paint job, and again described as imaculate. From a few feet away it looked great, but it quickly fell apart. The 7k was more likely spent on bodywork because it looked like it had been wrecked in the front. If look closely at the pictures, there is a lot of filler or some thing in the inner fenders. The rear might have been repaired too, because every piece of chrome was brand new, these items were beautiful but they didn't match the rest of the brightwork on the car. I also noticed rust starting to pop in a couple of spots. The interior was pretty decent, but the gages were not metric. Also, the front turn indicator covers were not the euro style. It seemed to run ok.
He sold it on ebay for a little over 12K to this cllassics dealer. It looks like the dealer had the front seats redone and then relisted it.
This guy is trying to have a side business selling old BMWs and I think he's in way over his head. He really doesn't know much about the cars, which is really evident once you start asking questions. He has two or three for sale right now, one is a white 74 tii listed on ebay.