Re: [MBZ] My new car! was RE: Car Search
Thanks, Dan! I am happy about it. I am going to sell my current 7 series. I have a feeling it might take a while. Not that many folks are interested in a 15 year old BMW with 217,000 miles. As far as pictures, sure I can send some. They are the pictures from the seller's listing. I'm hoping when it gets here that I will have a weekend to do some Martha Stewart detailing. Don Snook -Original Message- From: Dan Penoff [mailto:d...@penoff.com] Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2015 1:18 PM To: Mercedes List Subject: Re: [MBZ] My new car! was RE: Car Search Congrats, Donald, glad you found something you like. Sounds like a nice example. So what are you doing with your existing 740? As I opined earlier today, I think part of my problem is my past luck in finding nice, well kept examples cheap. As I expand my search I'm finding that the decent ones are north of $5,000, more than I had been previously considering. Looks like it's time to open the wallet and accept that the ones I have were anomalies due to luck or circumstance. There are two what appear to be nice prospects I'll be looking at this weekend. Maybe I'll get lucky as well. If not, I'm sure the right car will eventually come my way. Pictures? Dan Sent from my iPad On Mar 19, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Donald Snook d...@snooklawllc.com wrote: Dan wrote: I've pretty much decided it's a W140 or nothing, so the E55 is out the window. I've put searches in for W140s in Tulsa, OK City and Charleston. If I see anything pop up I'll be in touch. Sadly, the initial searches yielded pretty much nothing. I'm still at a loss to figure out why W140s are so hard to find... I feel your pain! I have been on the search for either a 97-99 S Class (just like you) or another 7 series BMW.I did finally strike gold! Yesterday I bought a 2001 BMW 740iL with 115,000 miles -- 2 owner. The first had it for 8 years and the second for 6 years. The seller has only put on 25,000 in the last 6 years. During that time he also had the 100,000 mile service done at the BMW dealer and they did EVERYTHING. Poor guy. Anyway, I am having to have it shipped from Nashville to Wichita in an enclosed trailer. I am excited because it has such low miles (compared to my previous cars). My current BMW has 217,000 miles. Don Snook 2000 BMW 740iL 217K 2006 Cadillac SRX (Her car) 2001 BMW 740iL (in transit) -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: New E382.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 568049 bytes Desc: New E382.jpg URL: http://mail.okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20150319/5e14c273/attachment.jpg -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: New E383.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 337645 bytes Desc: New E383.jpg URL: http://mail.okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20150319/5e14c273/attachment-0001.jpg -- next part -- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: New E384.jpg Type: image/jpeg Size: 441974 bytes Desc: New E384.jpg URL: http://mail.okiebenz.com/pipermail/mercedes_okiebenz.com/attachments/20150319/5e14c273/attachment-0002.jpg ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Why a BMW? Mechanics say they break, unlike MErcedes. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Dan wrote: I've pretty much decided it's a W140 or nothing, so the E55 is out the window. I've put searches in for W140s in Tulsa, OK City and Charleston. If I see anything pop up I'll be in touch. Sadly, the initial searches yielded pretty much nothing. I'm still at a loss to figure out why W140s are so hard to find... I feel your pain! I have been on the search for either a 97-99 S Class (just like you) or another 7 series BMW.I did finally strike gold! Yesterday I bought a 2001 BMW 740iL with 115,000 miles -- 2 owner. The first had it for 8 years and the second for 6 years. The seller has only put on 25,000 in the last 6 years. During that time he also had the 100,000 mile service done at the BMW dealer and they did EVERYTHING. Poor guy. Anyway, I am having to have it shipped from Nashville to Wichita in an enclosed trailer. I am excited because it has such low miles (compared to my previous cars). My current BMW has 217,000 miles. Don Snook 2000 BMW 740iL 217K 2006 Cadillac SRX (Her car) 2001 BMW 740iL (in transit) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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I would have bought a 140 (97-99). But, like Dan they are very hard to find. When I did find one they were either turds or they wanted WAY too much for them. Plus, I have really enjoyed my current 7 series. I think the 98-2001 Bmw is the best one they made. They fit me well and look good. On Mar 19, 2015, at 12:54 PM, Andrew Strasfogel astrasfo...@gmail.commailto:astrasfo...@gmail.com wrote: Why a BMW? Mechanics say they break, unlike MErcedes. On Thu, Mar 19, 2015 at 1:52 PM, Donald Snook via Mercedes mercedes@okiebenz.commailto:mercedes@okiebenz.com wrote: Dan wrote: I've pretty much decided it's a W140 or nothing, so the E55 is out the window. I've put searches in for W140s in Tulsa, OK City and Charleston. If I see anything pop up I'll be in touch. Sadly, the initial searches yielded pretty much nothing. I'm still at a loss to figure out why W140s are so hard to find... I feel your pain! I have been on the search for either a 97-99 S Class (just like you) or another 7 series BMW.I did finally strike gold! Yesterday I bought a 2001 BMW 740iL with 115,000 miles -- 2 owner. The first had it for 8 years and the second for 6 years. The seller has only put on 25,000 in the last 6 years. During that time he also had the 100,000 mile service done at the BMW dealer and they did EVERYTHING. Poor guy. Anyway, I am having to have it shipped from Nashville to Wichita in an enclosed trailer. I am excited because it has such low miles (compared to my previous cars). My current BMW has 217,000 miles. Don Snook 2000 BMW 740iL 217K 2006 Cadillac SRX (Her car) 2001 BMW 740iL (in transit) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
[MBZ] My new car! was RE: Car Search
Dan wrote: I've pretty much decided it's a W140 or nothing, so the E55 is out the window. I've put searches in for W140s in Tulsa, OK City and Charleston. If I see anything pop up I'll be in touch. Sadly, the initial searches yielded pretty much nothing. I'm still at a loss to figure out why W140s are so hard to find... I feel your pain! I have been on the search for either a 97-99 S Class (just like you) or another 7 series BMW.I did finally strike gold! Yesterday I bought a 2001 BMW 740iL with 115,000 miles -- 2 owner. The first had it for 8 years and the second for 6 years. The seller has only put on 25,000 in the last 6 years. During that time he also had the 100,000 mile service done at the BMW dealer and they did EVERYTHING. Poor guy. Anyway, I am having to have it shipped from Nashville to Wichita in an enclosed trailer. I am excited because it has such low miles (compared to my previous cars). My current BMW has 217,000 miles. Don Snook 2000 BMW 740iL 217K 2006 Cadillac SRX (Her car) 2001 BMW 740iL (in transit) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
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Congrats, Donald, glad you found something you like. Sounds like a nice example. So what are you doing with your existing 740? As I opined earlier today, I think part of my problem is my past luck in finding nice, well kept examples cheap. As I expand my search I'm finding that the decent ones are north of $5,000, more than I had been previously considering. Looks like it's time to open the wallet and accept that the ones I have were anomalies due to luck or circumstance. There are two what appear to be nice prospects I'll be looking at this weekend. Maybe I'll get lucky as well. If not, I'm sure the right car will eventually come my way. Pictures? Dan Sent from my iPad On Mar 19, 2015, at 1:52 PM, Donald Snook d...@snooklawllc.com wrote: Dan wrote: I've pretty much decided it's a W140 or nothing, so the E55 is out the window. I've put searches in for W140s in Tulsa, OK City and Charleston. If I see anything pop up I'll be in touch. Sadly, the initial searches yielded pretty much nothing. I'm still at a loss to figure out why W140s are so hard to find... I feel your pain! I have been on the search for either a 97-99 S Class (just like you) or another 7 series BMW.I did finally strike gold! Yesterday I bought a 2001 BMW 740iL with 115,000 miles -- 2 owner. The first had it for 8 years and the second for 6 years. The seller has only put on 25,000 in the last 6 years. During that time he also had the 100,000 mile service done at the BMW dealer and they did EVERYTHING. Poor guy. Anyway, I am having to have it shipped from Nashville to Wichita in an enclosed trailer. I am excited because it has such low miles (compared to my previous cars). My current BMW has 217,000 miles. Don Snook 2000 BMW 740iL 217K 2006 Cadillac SRX (Her car) 2001 BMW 740iL (in transit) ___ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: https://server.secureplusplusfour.net:2083/cpsess595060604/3rdparty/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
