Agreed. I waste far too much of my life browsing car-porn.

944-amino is inherently cool. Doesn't that score extra points? It should do.

Good to see the story has a happy ending!

Awesome story. Nice work.

However, we have to be clear: For most people, car flipping isn't a shortcut to instant riches: You buy a car, it has problems, fixing it takes more time & money than you expected, plus there are extra costs around shipping & paperwork, the days you take off work for some task, then you fall…

That was a handsome car. Why can't BMW make more of those? I'd buy one in a heartbeat. Drive it every day.

Agreed. From most angles, the E63 promises so much, but the back end fails to deliver. There is a weird chunkiness to the bootlid, and the angles gives a false impression of huge panel gaps - the contemporary Mercedes W221 had a similar problem.

Is this how they reproduce?

Turkey's domestic car manufacturer introduced the world's first fiberglass station wagon in 1973. The SV-1600 looked completely different than Anadol's 4-door sedans and was designed with the help of Britain's composite maestros, Reliant, just like the rest of the lineup.

Good.

Smart. It's surprising how much luggage you can fit in the back:

A few years ago, I spent about $2500 on train tickets for Brussels - Berlin - Warsaw - Vilnius - Riga - Tallinn - Moscow - Beijing - Guangzhou - Hong Kong. That was a fun trip.

Other travel costs were higher, though. (Including a frantic detour to the Chinese consulate in Helsinki in order to get a visa which had been…

The cars are being driven; people are having fun. Surely a good drive and a bit of mud is a more dignified fate for old cars than being vacuum-bagged indefinitely?

I'd like the same fate. When I'm 80 years old, I hope I can still go out and be active and make other people happy - rather than staying in bed, taking no…

Why you would want to buy a bottomless money pit is another matter...

£4000-£8000 should be sufficient to buy a 1930s/1940s car that runs well and looks the part, if you're not determined to buy a museum piece or a Bugatti.

But, on the other hand, a couple of weeks ago I was foolish enough to bid on an Armstrong-Siddeley; so my judgement is suspect :-)

Old money? An old car isn't necessarily a priceless heirloom.

This doesn't have to be an expensive sport; a lot of these cars are cheaper than, say, keeping some ten-year-old M3 or 1990s Porsche for trackdays.

Good writeup.

It's important to think in terms of risk, though. It's fun to be in this market, but risk comes with every purchase; and the more ambitious you are, the higher the risk. That isn't necessarily good or bad; you just have to understand your own risk appetite. Sooner or later you will find a car that you…

What about Mussolini? Like a proto-Putin. He loved to flaunt his dictatorial physique.

You might well believe all that stuff, but one real-world consequence is that Russian signatures on treaties are now worthless.

If Russia has far more claim to Crimea and its presence in Ukraine is just an accident of history, why did Russian leaders (not just Yeltsin) sign a series of treaties which said that Crimea is part of Ukraine?

Of course, Russian signatures on treaties are now worthless.