5 Classic BMWs Under $10k You Can Buy Right Now

As you ’re no doubt cognizant , BMW fete its hundredth birthday on March 7th . While the marque has built quite a few railcar worthy of any collector ’s investment , the true beauty of an older Bimmer lie in the relaxation with which you may keep an cheap model running seemingly incessantly . Case in point : these five BMWs are all for saleright now , all for $ 10,000 or less , and all have that little special something about them that makes the difference between an old railcar and a classic . Get your chequebook out – or shroud it ! – some of these are no - brainers .

1975 BMW 2002

Price:$9,900The 2002 is more thanmerelythe ultimate facial expression of BMW’s"New Class " car that saved the company in the sixties . Sitting at the very forefront of the variation sedan movement , in many respects it ’s land zero for so many of the cars on the road today . This one ’s notperfectbut it ’s jolly bloody close , which is actually a good affair because driving it wo n’t trash its economic value .

1984 633 CSi

Price:$9,000BMW ’s iconic " shark nose " rattling holidaymaker has maturate about as gracefully as any machine from the ' eighty , peradventure excepting a couple of supercars . The big two - threshold is the ultimate main road cruiser , and this special model has less than 110,000 mi on the clock . Outside of some raddled leather , it ’s about as light a 32 - year - old car as you ’ll find .

1989 E34 535i

Price:$6,200Go forward , I ’ll wait while you endeavor to find a nicer third - generation 5 Series BMW . It ’s from one of BMW ’s golden eras , and it ’s remarkably gorgeous inside and out . It ’s a good bet for a self-coloured daily driver for class to add up .

1991 E30 318is

Price:$8,500Here ’s a car for the purists among you . It has a four piston chamber instead of the straight six that add up in the 325 , so it ’s really the most balanced E30 you’re able to corrupt diffident of an M3 , which would turn tail you about four sentence as much . More importantly , crack out the status it ’s in . The wordsurvivorcomes to mind – that ’s the mill rouge , and the Department of the Interior is just as clean .

1998 E36 M3

Price : $ 9,000Even among BMW ’s most hard-core enthusiast , a healthy debate rages as to which was the just motorcar : the E30 M3 or its E36 heir . argumentation notwithstanding , you ’re looking at an original and well - keep example for less than $ 10,000 – there ’s almost no chance that economic value overlook , so at worst you get the elevator car rent - free for a few age .

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Aaron Milleris theCarseditor for Thrillist , and can befound on Twitter . How none of these are presently in his service department is a matter of gossamer self-possession .

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