Neil McCauley

Great score! Definitely some nice fruit to peel off that - have always wondered if the 18" 313's would clear the BMWP 6 pistons as well.

Were the wheels still there @Kees?

Big set of BBS RE's it looks like too.

M340i would be my pick, and that’s coming from a 335d owner. The diesels simply take too long to warm up and are far better commuter cars than entertainment cars. 700nm is hilarious on the open road though, it really is just push to pass.

https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/other/listing/5391599987 @nath I know you're "trying" to thin the fleet, but also...

Colour combo and wood trim is amazing.

Meeee-reow 🤣

NO

Not a fan of grey interiors, but that’s a bargain surely.

I would legit cover my car like my primary school exercise books if they released the patterns haha

No you’re not missing anything - it was part of the collection from that hoarder on TM iirc?

Not sure what to make of this one! fballs

Headers pls... DM me.

Pics: PA3330/AE54276 when we took it on trade and UN3871/AE53800 when I spotted it in Taihape post the Covid $62K sale. The other Brilliantrots: BMW649/AE53932 which is now caged with an M54. HOT325/AE54389 which has been off the road for some time. Haven't seen any other than these four in the last 25 years of monitoring open market sales. For reference - E30MS is actually Zinnobar and the entire kit was dealer fitted here in NZ - the headliner was beige when I looked at buying it in 2002.

Free 118i with your stereo? https://www.trademe.co.nz/a/motors/cars/bmw/118i/listing/5314309230

Don't want to give the game away too much, as it sounds like we're hunting for the same things, but saving searches with misspelled words also produces gems.

$4k and doesn't run... Tell 'im he's dreamin'!

RHD 6 cylinder E30 cable. P/N 35411154504

We took PA3330 on trade when the original owner bought a new 1M. I had a work day to come up with the $17k required to own it, got to $12k but sadly a bridge to far for a lowly dealership parts advisor at the time. I recall the Coombes Dealer principal grabbed it. Wonderful car.

Loving the attention to detail! RE: the firewall heatshield, M539 custom made all the shielding for one of his E31's if you want to have a crack? It came out really well.

This is pretty bloody good!

I think it's much easier to get across the line if you have a prior relationship with the mechanic, and are fully willing to take responsibility for your ordering snafu's if you get it wrong. It's probably also easier if they're "not" a specialist marque workshop and are willing to work on all sorts of cars - if you can supply parts / diagrams / torque specs its going to make their life a lot easier, as they might not have the same access to parts discounts when ordering from the dealer or OE supplier.

No bonnet foam, but it’s fully restored. Pull the other one mate, it’s got bells on it.

The boot lid looks like those awful oversized CSL style ducktails that seemed so popular on E90’s - it’s Halfords spec.

Awesome cars, if slightly overpriced for what they are imho. There seems to be a perception of rarity when the reality is that there’s probably almost 40 of them in NZ alone. With that being said, they’ve not depreciated in any meaningful way since they were new, which is unheard of really - consider an E9x M3 could have been had for low 20’s at their bottom. It’s always the same cars up for sale though, the garage queens don’t seem to come up for sale. There’s been a couple of sub 10K km cars go for around $90k which I think is probably where the market actually is.