Mine was disabled for some reason and left to rot outside by the (original?) owner. No idea how long it sat.

The prior owner bought it and brought it back to life. Runs and drives beautifully, 5-speed manual, does not use oil. He didn't concern himself with cosmetics but put about $8,000 in parts into it. He replaced nearly all of the original beige interior with black parts from a donor, probably due to mold from it sitting outside in Georgia. He didn't replace the beige headliner and seatbelts. It oddly looks good like that, but a 2006 just hit the boneyard here so I'm gonna go see if it has sport seats which I don't have. Don't really care what color those are if so. Maybe yank the wheels too.

I paid him a lot less than what he put into it; I think he was kind of over that one and he had about five other project BMWs to deal with.

Everything works. It looks about average for it age, but the clearcoat on the roof and hood is long gone and there's some exposed primer on the roof. i wanted something I could park at the airport, uncovered, for 1-2 weeks at a time and not worry about someone whamming their door into the side as there's plenty of scratches and dings already.

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