This 1983 BMW 635CSI is a Euro market car with terrific looking bumpers, no side markers, and deleted trunk numbers for a very clean look. The car has a close-ratio dog-leg 5-speed and looks great on 16″ BBS or Rial mesh alloys. Euro E24 coupes look amazing, and given that this money will only buy you a rusty disaster of an E9, we’d say these are becoming better and better alternatives. Find it
here at Luxury Motorcars in Sacramento, California for only $8995.
We love that the wheels are 16-inchers like they would have been when this car was new. At that point, 17s were nowhere to be found, and on these cars a 17-inch wheel can look a little too modern. Silver centers look slick too, even though we suspect that many would have run gold centers back in the day. The only wheels that look better here are genuine 16″ Alpinas.
The cloth interior is a quintessential German home-market feature. A swap to leather or black interior wouldn’t be difficult given the abundance of parts cars out there, but it wouldn’t be urgent given how clean these seats remain. The Hardy and Beck wheel looks okay but we wouldn’t mind sourcing an Alpina unit or even reverting to the stock wheel. The 60k original miles claim should be investigated, as these grey-market imports had their speedometers changed when switching to MPH, so this one could have been zeroed out or adjusted. A CarFax or the paperwork with the car could be enlightening.
The seller offers zero mechanical information, but we’d say that the engine bay looks quite clean. Dealers are good at making cars shiny, but there is no way that the coolant tank is more than a few years old, so somebody has been paying attention. We like the strut tower brace, and that might be another H&B item that would signal the car being in the Bay Area for some years. That shop might remember the car if quizzed.
Our first three questions for the dealer would be in regards to rust (from possible early days in the homeland), paint work (for possible accidents or color blends), and smog legality (the seller doesn’t show a BAR tag, which likely would have been aluminum on a car of this age). As a dealer, he is responsible to get the car smogged if selling to a California buyer, so that is better than with a private party that might try to pass the buck. If the answers to these questions are even mostly good, we’d say this is a great coupe to buy. With the asking price so low, we are a little confused at just how cheap they must have purchased it for.
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The Euro 635 had a better trans that had reverse down and back but I bet it’s gone in this one.
As as been noted I’d be damn sure all is well with the smog situation before paying for it. I would want to see it being smogged cuz you can’t trust dealers.
Allen Hardy is the guy to talk to and probably knows of others for sale.
The Euro 635 had a better trans that had reverse down and back but I bet it’s gone in this one.
As as been noted I’d be damn sure all is well with the smog situation before paying for it. I would want to see it being smogged cuz you can’t trust dealers.
Allen Hardy is the guy to talk to and probably knows of others for sale.
I still lust for a Euro M635 like Allen was bringing in back then. and the 3pice BBS wheels were to die for.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BMW_6_Series_(E24)
@Dennis, good info, thanks!
And I believe it.
/Henry
Thanks
very nice driving car, in a gt kind of way, and of course, very pretty. swapped the 390s for a set of 17″ bbs rx wheels, and dinan stage 2 suspension . had it resprayed in a very similar, but metallic maroon [ a newer bmw color ] sigh. another one I wish I still had.
It has the simple heater/vent/ac system much more reliable,than the auto hvac system. The temp gauge is exactly where it should be at idle or normal run. I see nothing under the hood indicating any wiring or vac line molestation from oem.
Check the spare tire well bottom for rust, give you a good idea on the rest of the body. Crawl under and check the rubber drive shaft coupling at transmission tail, if it looks good no cracks and tight then it does indeed have only 57k mile. If the coupling is new and replaced the car is over 150k mile. Look closely at the condition of the hoses off the top of the gas tank seen from under side in front of drivers rear wheel. If possible inside drivers door behind speaker look at ecu , sometimes water collects there.
Darn nice car, and a 5 speed to boot.
. thank you for the report.
. thank you for the report.
~ and congratulations BCMac !
Congratulations on the purchase of this fine car.
Well bought. Lateley I have not seen another grey market survivor, especially in this fantastic color and in this condition.
’87 M6 Calgary