Ahhh, where to start. I have an obsession for anything with a motor. Mainly cars. Mainly cars with German heritage. Mainly an '88 M5 that's slowly being restored, an '89 C4 in excellent shape and an equally nice e36 M3 daily driver. And so, as a car guy with issues, all it took was a verbal nudge from Dave, one of my closest car buddies. Years ago, maybe 4-5 years? he started to make a yearly summit to West Palm Beach to experience Cavalino. And while there, would stay with a transplant friend from Baltimore, who just happens to have a storage and restoration shop in West Palm Beach. And Dave comes home, sees me, and says something like "Saw Scott, he has a euro 635M rotting away in his parking lot, you should buy it for parts". Fast forward to today, sight unseen until today, my patience paid off. I'm now the proud owner of an '85 european 635M. Straight from under the hot Florida sun. The deal was more than fair to the point of being heavily, heavily skewed in my favor if you base value on the value of the parts. Basically I'm a very fortunate guy. I've known the car was mine since about 3 months ago, the mechanic's lien process had started and I happily waited. And since that time I've been abusing myself by visiting every e28/e24 site known to exist, not that I wasn't already doing that. Of course this didn't eat into my normal browsing habits; Pelican, Rennlist, Bring-a-trailor just to name a few. And then BAM! I was casually told the title was in hand, it would cost X and come get it. So I immediately hired a company to transport the car to Baltimore, this company was great to work with. Before arrival, I was hoping it might be a good candidate for restoration, but as advertised, a parts car. My long term plan is to keep the entire drivetrain and electric bits and sell off parts. Near future is putting the E88 headers on my US M5, that ought to wake it up! Then at some point I'd rebuild the euro M88 and swap out the US S38. Thanks to my friend/mechanic Mark who's allowing it to grace his lot!
