Another car that has been on my busket list is the e36 M3. After searching for a few weeks, what I found was mostly junk, riced to hell, too far away or way too much $$$. Friday night, looked on Dallas craigslist and a near perfect car showed up. 97 with 59K miles in a great/unusual color, owned and maintained by the same adult for the last 10 years, and only 20 minutes from me. The car runs great, has near perfect, all original Techno violet paint, near perfect black leather interior, comes with all manuals, tools and spare. The only thing I would have changed was it be a 5 speed instead of auto. The condition of this car trumps the tranny type. I pick it up first thing Monday.