[BMWCSRegistry] 2007 Calendar and Car searching

[Art Wegweiser]

At 9:12 PM -0500 1/19/07, Peter Louton wrote:
>What about the bias against the lowly 4 cylinder variety.

Peter -
We do and always have endeavored to not exclude our ancestral 2000 CS 
- aka Model 120.
But in the bright light of reality, it does differ from the E9's by 
quite a bit - and I am making no reference to aesthetics.  Eye of the 
Beholder as Rod Serling once wrote.

Did you submit a photo for the calendar? No CSL was included either 
or even my own gorgeous Ilse was not there and I'm sure she is pissed.
Total calendar production from start to finish was in the hands of he 
who volunteered to do it and not enough time was available to 
consider all the aspects.

Loren's effort is much appreciated - maybe some omissions can be 
corrected for the 2008 calendar - as well as a bigger run if the 
interest is there.

The number of 2000 CS's is severely reduced as is availability of 
parts especially because they do not interchange very much with their 
slightly later and substantially far more abundant E9 descendants.
Thus people with expertise or even familiarity are quite limited, too.

I have written before about the "local/questionable" dealership 
situation. you mention.
Too bad so many of you are not near Erie (yes Erie) PA where my BMW 
tech and parts guys are savvy about old BMW's.
In fact some of them are not too fond of the overly complex design 
and excessively engineered new multi mega buck BMW's or their much 
more abundant customers with the much newer BMW''s.
I wonder why.

Drive Safe & Keep Warm
Art

>Oh well, in BMW news, I'm slowly looking for another vehicle.  I've
>currently got a 93 525it and I'm looking for another one or the next body
>style touring, even the 3 series.  I've got close to 200k on mine and I
>commute 120 miles each way to my job in Indy every Saturday and Sunday and
>during the week I run a mobile bike shop out of the touring, so I need a
>touring, for the space and driveability aspect, and I like the decent, but
>not quite so great gas mileage from the touring.  So anyway, I test drove a
>94 touring with 107k on it from a local/questionable dealership and noticed
>a few things, but it was raining and dark out.  So I asked for another test
>drive this am and took it to Vorderman Motor Werks for an inspection, to run
>the codes and get better opinion.  Well, once inside the shop, was able to
>determine the car had been in an accident and not always the end of the
>world if repaired correctly, but not in this case.  The left rear door floor
>jamb was definitely buckled with a 1/2 inch hump across it.  Then trying to
>find a place to raise the car on the lift was trying, since the rust on that
>side was so bad it made a coupe rust bucket look good.  The underside was
>really bad.  Sad really.  Oh well, I'll keep on looking.  On another note,
>was able to fill up my gas tank for the touring with premium 93 octane fuel
>for $1.989 per gallon this am and by this afternoon it was $2.189. 
>
>Peter

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