Wagons!!!
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Oldbmwcoupes
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Man I can’t get enough of them. Ive had a wonderful white e34, two e39 sport wagons and I now have two company car e91 wagons. I love the stripped down white e91 with the upgraded brakes as my daily driver (By e9 standards it’s not stripped at all, it just does not have all the nav and heated seats, the blue one does).
Additionally, I’ve become obsessed with the extra space and looks of a two door wagon (nomad or shooting brake to some) that I’ve considered the sacrilege of grafting the roof section of a Volvo 1800 es on to my 3.0cs that has a rusty rear window surround. I’m sure I’d get a good spanking from the purists (might deserve it).
More realistic is the plan that I have in place to build out one of my old, and nothing special, e24s into an actual shooting brake. There have been some sexy internet images that don’t really work in reality. I’d like to birth it into existence.
Additionally, I’ve become obsessed with the extra space and looks of a two door wagon (nomad or shooting brake to some) that I’ve considered the sacrilege of grafting the roof section of a Volvo 1800 es on to my 3.0cs that has a rusty rear window surround. I’m sure I’d get a good spanking from the purists (might deserve it).
More realistic is the plan that I have in place to build out one of my old, and nothing special, e24s into an actual shooting brake. There have been some sexy internet images that don’t really work in reality. I’d like to birth it into existence.
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I’m a past lover of BMW tourings. My last was an e39 V8 sport. But my X5 is better for my needs in every way. My wagon could not have swallowed a 600lbs Jag motor, pulled my race trailer, hauled all my kids junk to/from college, or busted thru 18” of heavy snow the plows leave in my driveway in winter.
Wagons you say...PNW Wagonfest coming up soon in September.
Love my DD…
I love the Volvo 240 and may buy another one one day if I find one in perfect condition.
Used the Cabrio for the "from college" return. Drove 14 hours home. No snow in Arizona, and did not include my daughter, who strapped a backpack and went the other way, to Europe...
New item by Ariel
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otter74
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I have always loved wagons. My first and second cars were Volvo 245s (I never got to drive the first one legally before it was totaled September 15, 2001).
In 2009, I bought a '95 525i touring.
For some stupid reason, I decided I wanted a black one (I had seen a black one that must have just been washed). This '95 525i got a 5-speed and then an S50 from a 1995 M3. I bought it with 182,000 miles and sold it at 346,000 miles in 2019 to help fund the most expensive car I had purchased. I had looked at replacing it with an E39 around 290,000 miles, specifically a red 540i touring, but that car was misrepresented, so I ended up buying an E39 M5 instead. Wasn't part of the plan.
Of course now I sold my daily driver to help pay for this 11/93 E34 M5 Touring (HB Chris' E12 in the background).
The M5 Touring is Oxford Green over Bi-Color silver grey and light silver grey leather. I bought it from a good friend in Canada and imported it myself. If nothing else, it was a great roadtrip from Calgary. A friend flew in from Portland and we drove down to his parents place in Vegas and I continued on to Phoenix from there.
A couple months of using my E39 M5 as my daily driver was tough. I was looking for another E34 525it and even flew to SFO to buy a white over black '95 but it was not as advertised and I thought it too risky to get someone in the area to look at it. I lost a day and $900 but despite being on four airplanes, I didn't get sick, so I got lucky, I guess. At the end of August, 2019, I found a 2003 525iT 5-speed for sale in Los Angeles.
Turns out the car used to belong to a good friend in Seattle and he sold it to this guy, a "master tech" at Beverly Hills BMW. Of course, it was broken, needing a clutch and he didn't want to fix it. It had its share of aftermarket parts and wheels (not my beloved BBS RCs - you might notice I have a thing for them on more modern cars, so I was able to sell most of that off and get a pretty decent daily driver that is the same super rare color combo as my E39 M5 and my M coupe (not a wagon, right? haha). Of course, the M54B25 that was in there burned a quart of oil every 250 miles, so it got an M54B30. Now it needs a steering rack and a set of cats. :/
In 2009, I bought a '95 525i touring.
For some stupid reason, I decided I wanted a black one (I had seen a black one that must have just been washed). This '95 525i got a 5-speed and then an S50 from a 1995 M3. I bought it with 182,000 miles and sold it at 346,000 miles in 2019 to help fund the most expensive car I had purchased. I had looked at replacing it with an E39 around 290,000 miles, specifically a red 540i touring, but that car was misrepresented, so I ended up buying an E39 M5 instead. Wasn't part of the plan.
Of course now I sold my daily driver to help pay for this 11/93 E34 M5 Touring (HB Chris' E12 in the background).
The M5 Touring is Oxford Green over Bi-Color silver grey and light silver grey leather. I bought it from a good friend in Canada and imported it myself. If nothing else, it was a great roadtrip from Calgary. A friend flew in from Portland and we drove down to his parents place in Vegas and I continued on to Phoenix from there.
A couple months of using my E39 M5 as my daily driver was tough. I was looking for another E34 525it and even flew to SFO to buy a white over black '95 but it was not as advertised and I thought it too risky to get someone in the area to look at it. I lost a day and $900 but despite being on four airplanes, I didn't get sick, so I got lucky, I guess. At the end of August, 2019, I found a 2003 525iT 5-speed for sale in Los Angeles.
Turns out the car used to belong to a good friend in Seattle and he sold it to this guy, a "master tech" at Beverly Hills BMW. Of course, it was broken, needing a clutch and he didn't want to fix it. It had its share of aftermarket parts and wheels (not my beloved BBS RCs - you might notice I have a thing for them on more modern cars, so I was able to sell most of that off and get a pretty decent daily driver that is the same super rare color combo as my E39 M5 and my M coupe (not a wagon, right? haha). Of course, the M54B25 that was in there burned a quart of oil every 250 miles, so it got an M54B30. Now it needs a steering rack and a set of cats. :/
Why was it tough? Not well suited as a DD I would guess?
It’s a great car but it’s not cheap to run. In mixed driving, I usually got 14mpg. Also, I did buy one with fold down rear seats but between the seats not folding flat, the lip under the trunk lid and the factory subwoofers hanging under the rear deck, you can’t put a long box in it (think something you’d ship a dashboard in). Also, it’s a really special car in the way it feels and performs and it’s a waste with what I need to do. One thing I will say in adding an E39 touring as the daily driver is that it made the E39 M5 feel special again.
Should you ever feel like offloading the E34 M5 Touring, please feel free to drop me a line before it goes out into the world!
I share the wagon love.
This was 2002 Euro delivery of manual transmission E46 touring
Followed by some more tourings
and the E61
And when BMW abandoned the US market for wagons, we even tried the GT cars
But then gave up on BMW for wagons and got a Panamera Sport Turismo
This was 2002 Euro delivery of manual transmission E46 touring
Followed by some more tourings
and the E61
And when BMW abandoned the US market for wagons, we even tried the GT cars
But then gave up on BMW for wagons and got a Panamera Sport Turismo
Lots to love in those pics!