Low milage original E9's?

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Hi guys,

Just did a search on the forum but didn't find anything.

What I was wondering about is if there are many original low millage E9's known to the collectors community.

Do you guys think that any E9 could have survived , even with low millage, without developing (serious) rust problems? Not talking about cars with 129miles like the recent E3 that popped up but lets say cars that original did 10 to 20.000miles.
 
Mileage

I am sure there are quite of few with what might be considered low mileage. My particular coupe has 49,678 original miles, Murray told me of one with less than 25000.
 
Hi Sooner,

So how would you describe the general condition of your car, I assume that with such low millage it was never restored. How did the know weak spots stand the test of time?
 
I bought mine with 38k miles 6 years ago, just turned 67k. Fortunately was garaged and summer driven it's entire life. The only issue I have discovered was the failed rear shock tower (it actually discovered me), the towers were pristine but fatigue and poor design caused that. No other structural issues.
 
My car has 55k miles on it. I have posted a few pics of the wheel wells after I cleaned off the crud! I can't say the car is all-original, but it was well kept and I purchased it from original family. Steering wheel was replaced w Nardi by me, and other routine maintenance stuff, repairs, etc. done over the years.

Scott

http://www.e9coupe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=21252
 
Thanks for the feedback guys.

Scott just had a look at your pictures and the condition is indeed amazing for an original unrestored car. Think much will deppend on the climate the car spend its life in.

Thinking about the saying that they were already rusting away in the factory I thought that unrestored cars with a good body probably belonged in the land of fairytales
 
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My Verona is unrestored and does not have serious rust problems. I keep hearing about the hidden rust that you do not see and one clear day you face Carmageddon. In the meantime I am 11 years older and the car looks as young as in 2005.

I used to get parts at a junkyard for my 87 Volvo and get them from condemned cars that were in better shape and had less miles than mine, that taught me that cars in California are not killed by rust but by the cost of labor.
 
I can also imagine that much depends on who the previous owners were. If these cars ended up in collectors hand early enough and were well looked after much fatal damage was prevented.

That being said I know that he first owner of my Cs, who bought the car new in '71 and lived in Zwitserland, sold it in '77 with only 57.000KM and with serious rust damage to the A pillars.

Just wondering about the possibility of unrestored rustfree cars because today I learned that not far from where I live a '74 Csi popped up. With an asking price of €63.850,- I thought they were completely insane but if it indeed would be entirely rust free the price could be justified. It is presented with a millage of 32500km but still waiting for a reply to learn if this is what the speedo reads or indeed the real and documented millage.
 
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Philippe db said:
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That being said I know that he first owner of my Cs, who bought the car new in '71 and lived in Zwitserland, sold it in '77 with only 57.000KM and with serious rust damage to the A pillars.
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Oh, the Swiss are terrible, there are holes in their classic cars, in their cheese, and in the bank vaults where they keep the ill gotten money of deposed South American rulers :).
 
Utah Ceylon

A forum member has an original Ceylon CS with something like 30k miles.

The folks at La Jolla Independent BMW wrote a column about it on their blog found at bimmerdoc.com. That was about five years ago.

Scott
 
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