My 1990 E32 Alpina B11 3.5 Tribute Car 735iL 

Thanks, I am already missing this car! Hope to have another someday. When I have a proper garage to store it.

They drive like a dream. The best grand touring machine!

Спасибо!

Thanks Philip, yes one had to go. Maybe less is more after all!

Thanks Tom. Yes it was really hard to let it go, and I thought about it for months. I know I’ll never see an e32 interior in that shape again, it was really perfect. My reasons to sell primarily were: 1. I bought an expensive X5 with my wife for our family car. 2. I only have a single car garage at my current home. No proper storage for multiple classics. 3. The lack of a passenger side airbag on this model makes me think twice about trips in the car with my family. So, no airbag for my wife’s seat? It is a concern. I was happy to square up financially and to not have a payment on the X5. And happy that it won’t sit in the snow all winter! But man, it’s a great car.

@@BIMMERZEITT Yeah, the lack of suitable storage space would be an issue. You wouldn't want an immaculate classic like the E32 being left outside exposed to the worst of the elements to slowly deteriorate. I'd have parked the 7 inside the single car garage, and told the Missus her car can sit outside....but then, that's probably why I'm not married any more, and aren't likely to be again! 😉🤣 Some fella's play hard to get. I play hard to want!🙄😆 As far as Air Bags go, I can understand why some value them. Personally, I can't stand the damn things. I grew up in a generation & era when cars, particularly those of European brands like BMW & Mercedes, were over engineered to last forever and built like tanks. They were built to a standard, not built to a price like later models. They had a quality feel borne of quality materials. At the end of the 1990's you can see this in the change from E36 to E46....one example, the E36 had glass headlight covers that still look new two decades later. The E46 used crap plastic covers like all other vehicles from that point, that begin to go milky & deteriorate in just a few years. Refurbishing brings a temporary but not perfect improvement, but ultimately require replacing to restore the cars beauty. Those headlight units aren't cheap. Earlier cars were made of thicker gauge steel. They felt solid and were solid.....and didn't need airbags. Later cars have metal skin so flimsy you can poke a dent in a large panel with a finger. They are built lighter with the absolute minimum materials they can get away with to minimise manufacturing cost and maximise profit. They look flimsy, feel flimsy, and are flimsy. I'm sure those who value them can present technical evidence to support their case for airbags. However, I regard them as just an engineering band aid to compensate for the lack of rigidity & strength earlier vehicles relied on to protect occupants. All you needed was a seatbelt to restrain you from moving in an impact. The car resisted or absorbed the rest. Modern vehicles crumple like tissue paper....and I know they can justify it with arguments like the severe deformation absorbs energy, and yada, yada. But I've seen almost new cars declared economic write-offs due to damage of their front or rear bodywork after a low speed parking lot oopsy. Years ago some idiot ran into the back of one of my tanks in a car park at low speed. The only evidence on my car was a couple of barely visible scuffs that polished out in a minute or less. My old BMW shrugged it off like nothing. The new Honda that hit me looked like the impact occurred at 60mph! Front bumper, grill, air dam, headlights & indicators, radiator & auxiliary fan...all suffered some degree of damage. It looked bad enough to be unroadworthy to drive home and she had to call a tow. I could hardly believe the contrast. They can argue all they want to defend building them like that, but when a car explodes into fragments at 5-10km/h and is potentially written off by insurance, something has gone wrong in my opinion. And as far as technical arguments for safety, the bloody fiasco that these potentially FATAL airbag recalls created was ridiculous. Some of the BMW's and other vehicles in our family were affected. In the case of our BMW's, someone from the dealer was sent out to remove the faulty airbag. We were then informed it was illegal to drive the car until a replacement was fitted, risking thousands of $ in fines if we were caught doing so. So the car sat for nearly TWO YEARS while they waited for supplies of new airbags after TOKATA, the supplier, went bust from the fallout. BMW was forced to offer customers with affected cars the option of selling their car at an agreed price to the dealer, who would then send it to be crushed and turned in Tuna cans. Or keep their car and wait for a replacement 'Bag, with the option of accepting a hire car in the meantime at the dealer's cost. What a massively costly, logistical nightmare! And all because the inflatable "safety" devices might spontaneously explode and shower the occupant's face & neck in sharp, jagged metal shrapnel, not unlike an anti-personnel fragmentation grenade. And it wasn't hysteria. People actually DID die like that. One guy in an E46 bled to death after a metal fragment cut his jugular. That's the kind of safety they can insert where the sun don't shine. Build my car properly and then it won't need a horde of potential grenades and exploding pillows all over the interior to compensate for making the car out of tissues & tin foil instead. Like I said, some feel better with their newer cars, that's fine. They can have them. I'll stick with the classics that are better made, better to drive, less reliant on stupidly complex electronics, cheaper to maintain, and in many cases, an appreciating asset. Again my opinion, but DVD Screens, Info Displays, i-Drive(?!), Internet Connectivity, Autonomous Parking, 8 speed Electronic Transmissions that cost as much as the car to replace....I could go on forever, but cars now are full of Electronic complexity for complexity's sake that is totally unnecessary, prone to failures, can be a nightmare to diagnose, and hideously expensive to fix. No self respecting driver or enthusiast should need any of that shite. That's why E30 M3's, air-cooled Porsche's, and others of that type are still the real driver's cars. They are pure and devoid of bullshit. Wow, that turned into a rant! 😃😄😆🤣

Thanks for watching. Yes sadly I just sold it, too many cars at the moment. The hood and trunk shocks were all replaced by me actually last year. The hood does shoot open! I didn’t know about the glovebox shocks though, that makes sense!

@@BIMMERZEITT How/where did you sell it and can you share what price you fetched for it?

@@AdrianZelazny Facebook marketplace, just about $9K. Tried hard to hold out for $10K but, it is what it is! I will miss this car.

The classics are best used as weekend cars in my opinion. Not great on fuel or safety for a daily. Just my opinion anyway! E32 is maybe the best car next to E39 ever made.

It’s a 740iL silencer muffler from the cats back. Two mufflers on this model; both are from 740iL which is 5mm larger.

@@BIMMERZEITT my 740iL is smoler, what diameter in your?

17” style 5 BBS RC090 (E39 wheels)

Someone has a video on RU-vid comparing e32 and g20 actually!

It was a really hard decision to sell it today. Owning five BMW’s just not easy to do anymore with kids!