No problem. I used to really love BMWs, and I still remember lots of this stuff. The new ones have succeeded in turning me off completely, having worshiped at the Four Cylinder Building for 25 years.

The F355 is a nice looking car, but it is also a 348 trying to pass for a 328 GTB.

Is there any reason to believe that the replacement headers are any better engineered and constructed than the originals?

And the cyclists must have been the least athletic, wussiest people alive; having been run down by drunk off duty cops that were on foot.

I live in San Diego. We’ve had pedicabs downtown for years, and they are a plague on the city. Because of that, I see what you’re getting at with the pedalpubs. OTOH, it seems odd for cycling flotsam to be attacking them, and there has to be a better way of getting the operating rules changed than assaulting people…

In the US, the E24 was introduced as the 630CSi in 1977. BMW’s last carbureted car here was sold as a ‘76 model. We got the chassis updates for the ‘83 model year, while the 633CSi was still in production.

We had 630CSi models first. They are the ones to avoid. The 633CSi and 533i were the first emissions controlled BMWs to run strong strong from the factory, although the 1979-1981 E12 528i at least ran reliably.

Two of the 633CSis available locally have less than 64K miles and the nice one is $6,600.

There are four of them in my local Craigslist, and the most expensive is less than $7k. They’re automatics, but so are most remotely affordable CSs. My friend has his 3.0 CS getting converted to a 5-speed from an automatic at La Jolla Independent right now.

The CS was lighter, simpler, better looking; but the 6 is the car that actually makes sense as a practical classic. They didn’t get delivered to the dealers with structural rust issues in the rocker panels, from ‘79 they had reliable emissions controls, and they can be had cheaply.

These are nice cars, but rust is why they don’t belong on any list of good cars, let alone great ones. They make Vegas look galvanized.

Nice! I didn’t realize it was one of your racing cars, but now I recognize the license plate in the photo with the motor home.

AMC Hornet.

Put anyone next to post-lobotomy David Letterman and you will see their best.

Democrat on Democrat crime is not ironic.

Why are you doing that to your son? It never ends well.

He can change his name to Thyrton.

Are you going to buy it? I could see $5,000 for this car. Getting anything more would be pure dumb luck. You’d be more likely to have it on the market for however long it takes to figure out that it wasn’t going to sell for 40% too much. I knew an idiot in Monaco that kept his Lancia Montecarlo on the market from 1999…

Is that what he was referring to when he said he has a bad reputation for being straight at inappropriate times?

Worst? Tracy Morgan, Keanu Reeves, various retired NFL players. Micky Rourke would be here too, but is he really a celebrity?