Oh you lucky bastard. Gas-guzzling aside, drive the snot out of this glorious ticking time-bomb until it (inevitably) goes tits-up.

*SHRUG*

Do stupid illegal shit to your car, drive like a moron, get in fights, be drunk in public? OCPD is more than happy to take your money, and this happens all summer long. The fact that H2O provides a concentration of morons is completely coincidental.

Good lord, I just had a high school flashback.

God, that motor...

That happy place is getting stupid expensive.

The ad claims there to be no rust on or under the car.

BMW 850i. They’ll drain your wallet in a heartbeat, but you can find them under $10K

So am I. Never had a problem.

Maybe the later R56 (turbo), but the R53 supercharged engine is pretty well bulletproof (aside from the dual-mass clutch, which is easy enough to replace).

Pristine, low-mileage examples go for high teens.

R53 Mini Cooper S GP. Quick enough to embarrass a lot of higher-priced cars at the track, fun to tune/tinker with.

Anyone else notice the headstone? Wonder if this behavior runs in the family.

What’s more financially draining than boat ownership? Exotic boat ownership.

There is a crankcase ventilation kit available that supposedly fixed the problem; maybe this has it. If so, NP

So apart from the massive support team (and the $$$$), this is pretty much like any HPDE event.

Personally I would have kept it in the family and gone with the S85, but an LS9 would work too.

I see what you did there...