I circled back and took photos of that BMW because it was really an odd sight; for sure, I have seen other stripped cars under freeway bridges and in the rough part of downtown but never an older european car like this. I mean, who needed all of the parts from this car and stole it and stripped it?
Also, it was parked facing the wrong way on a well traveled street adjacent to downtown...not the best neighborhood but also not the worst. Plenty of LAPD cruisers would drive past it in the course of an hour. It must have been stripped elsewhere and dropped there from a flatbed tow truck but then why the pallet and other support under it?
Truly strange sight. Stripped clean and it was there for multiple days.