First E34 M5 Touring Produced on 2040-cars
San Jose, California, United States
First M5 Touring in California
I am the proud owner of first M5 touring ever produced. I imported it
from Germany and had it federalized by Barry Taylor Enterprises in
Richmond, Ca. Here's a link to the world wide M5 Touring Registry :http://www.bmwmregistry.com/models.php?id=25,
my car is at the top. BMW made 891 Tourings and never brought them to
the USA. I have owned my car for 5 years and it's time for a change. If
you are looking at this ad you know how rare and special these tourings
are. Here's a link to great information on the E34 M5 http://www.bmwmregistry.com/model_faq.php?id=12 Here are pictures from Germany before I bought the touring: http://euromcars.com/gschultz/04-09-07/ History: In the beginning of 2007 I stated to browse the German car site Mobile.de for an M5 touring. I saw my car and had my friend who runs euromcars.com go and check it out. It turns out the car is the first M5 touring to be built. There is some dispute with my car's vin ending with BL01001 and there's a BL 01000 but the experts in Germany insist that mine was done first. I purchased the car and had it federalized by now retired Barry Taylor Enterprises. He had been in the car importation business for over 45 years. It took until the middle of 2007 for me to get my car. I bought the car from the original owner. Condition: Exterior- I had a complete paint job in '08. I just had the hood, roof, bumper, and grille re-sprayed. It had picked up too many stone chips. The wheels were refinished 2 months ago. I just installed all new euro bumper strips. It looks pretty good. The front bumper was bead blasted down to clean plastic and painted. The body shop felt this the best way to make it like new. Interior- Very clean, I've had all of the seats recovered with good leather. It gets a ton of complements. The only modification I've done was to change the radio to a later BMW CD43 unit with Ipod connection. The iPod cable is near the parking brake. The FM had died in the original. I have replaced the rear window blinds and the rear dog net. I just purchased one of the last sets of OEM black floor mats. The dash is clean with no cracks. The door cards aren’t perfect but I’ve seen much much worse. Since I've owned it I've replaced: Valve adjustment just completed Fuel pump and CPS The brakes were replaced the first year I owned the car Radiator replaced first year Alternator (February) PS pump 2-EDC shocks, ordered from Greg at Concord BMW (Great guy) A/C compressor, has been converted to R134. It blows cool but not cold. Front steering components Very recent drive shaft rebuild including guibo and center support bearing. I have just passed strict California smog inspection. It burns virtually no oil. A fellow E34 M5 owner came by and asked me to start it up while cold. He was utterly amazed at how smooth it idled. We tried to balance coins on the plenum. This phrase is used a lot but I would truly drive this car cross country without fear. I bought the car with 295,000 kilometers and it now has approximately 369k or about 220,000 miles. It had a factory engine and transmission replaced in Germany at about 100k kilometers. With 220,000 miles it's not ready for a concourse but it's in very good condition. |
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