Seems Like E34 Listings Are Becoming Less Available

[E34 Lives]

Been looking at Craigslist for E34 and there seems to be less and less listings, and those listed are asking quite a bit compared to past pricing.

But in general, I don’t see that much supply. There were a lot of parts cars a while back, but even those have dwindle down a bit.

BaT (Bring A Trailer) seems to have created a higher price market for E34 BMWs.

What have you been seeing in your local markets?

[dannyzabolotny]

Craigslist has been kinda dead lately, mostly because they started charging $5 to post a car for sale and people selling cheap cars don’t want to pay that fee. I use Facebook Marketplace and Offerup a lot more nowadays.

[a777fan]

Craigslist has been kinda dead lately, mostly because they started charging $5 to post a car for sale and people selling cheap cars don’t want to pay that fee. I use Facebook Marketplace and Offerup a lot more nowadays.

I’ve noticed that some skirt the fee by using the car parts section for whole vehicles. Which… i guess is not technically cheating.

[E34 Lives]

Thanks, the Craigslist traffic for E34 listings have definitely moved to Facebook Market Place.

[jehu]

this is why I just put around $4k into this one even with 441,000 miles on the engine


may begin looking into some body/paint rehab and a younger engine.

[E34 Lives]

Shogun, I am starting to think the same way, and willing to spend what’s needed to keep my E34 running. Your 441K miles is very inspirational, at my 205K miles I didn’t have much of a real world target, now your are the benchmark. I am still amazed by the achieved mileage!

[ross1]

Pretty much the case for any 30 year old car, its called attrition. Here in the rustbelt even the parts car supply has dried up.
I used to see loads of E34s as recent as a decade ago, now I know of only one confirmed in daily service(my old 535 now in the hands of a friend) and one other I see on occasion. E39s seem to be going away around here as well.