If I was in the market right now, this would be the one...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2404108246&category=31877
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 86 244DL, 87 244DL, 88 744GLE, 91 244: 808K total

Sounds nice, low price, and very cool

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=31877&item=2404588119&rd=1


LOL

Bob

:>)

That car seems in considerably better shape than both of mine. I'd drive it... I'd even shovel it out for him!
8-)
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Yes, my new car is a 1983.

This is the one I'd buy. Check item #2403904017. Can't say I'd keep the round headlights, but manual trans aren't common for this year's turbo. I've owned an 85 244TI - significantly faster than my 83 245T - larger engine, IC...oh well..

Jim Weiss
83 245T,, 90 760TI, 93 940TI wagon, want more...but...

Intercooled, higher intake air pressure, exactly the same sized and compression B21FT engine. I always thought the later turbos were more powerful too, but my 83 is just like my 85 once I got it sorted out and running at 12.5 psi.

If I were in that part of the world I'd consider going to look at it though there's more than a day left on that auction which, in Ebay terms, is a lifetime. It might not go cheap.

Harold

i almost purchased a 240ti sight unseen once. luckily i decided to drive the 2 1/2 hours to go see it first. it was a complete rat that looked absolutely beautiful in pictures. jason in burlington CT

Yeah, I think *every* car on Ebay is "JUST GORGEOUS!". "You won't find a nicer one!" There's another one on there, a 245T that supposedly his friend can't fit into or something... it's the exact same story I've read before. Maybe it's the same car, relisted, but it just struck me as weird. Ebay is just a random cross section of the world at any given point in time.
As always, buyer beware. Then again, if the price is cheap enough, who gives a rat's @$$. My last two cost $500 each and are decent, now that I've done a little work to them. One needed less than $100 to make it happy. If you can get a year out of a car that cost less than $1000 you are money ahead.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 86 244DL, 87 244DL, 88 744GLE, 91 244: 808K total

Yeah. I've never paid more than $1000 for a car. The sedan cost me a cool grand, the wagon $250. The Audi (long since gone) was a $280 mistake. Even I can afford to blow $300 once on a stupid impulse buy.

The trick is to set your maximum price at something you can afford to loose, unless you've got some sort of insurance (like a smog test, a first hand inspection, etc). The PO of the wagon couldn't be bothered to smog it, so I figured I could part out the wagon (since it's intercooled and has decent body panels) for more than $250 if it turned out to be a complete junker.

- alex

'85 244 Turbo
'84 245 Turbo

After long ago convincing myself it was foolish to buy a car from pictures on ebay, I insisted on seeing one that was near enough for me to visit. The seller made it almost impossible, avoiding me until the last moment, with just enough time to see the car and perhaps phone someone to make the bid. Even the directions were misleading, and the seller was "too busy" to meet me at the car but I could call him after I arrived.

Just as well. The pictures of the car were just fuzzy enough and angled such that all the lies in the description weren't obviated. A "rust-free" rustbucket. Then while I was crawling around the rockers, the owner of the parking lot property stopped to ask me if I knew how to find the owner of this abandoned vehicle. I sent some real pix of the car's fatal flaws to the second highest bidder with my condolences for the winner of the auction.

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Art Benstein near Baltimore

Love that vinyl!

It needs work to the rear wiper or a harness -- but what wagon doesn't, at some time?

Rob, where in CT is it?
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Don Foster (near Cape Cod, MA)

Somewhere in western CT, right down near NYC. About 2 hours from where I live.
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 86 244DL, 87 244DL, 88 744GLE, 91 244: 808K total

The photos appear to have been taken at the Fairfield Hills complex (former state nuthouse) in Newtown, which is northern Fairfield Co. (I-84, exit 10-11).

Is that east of the Mississppi?

Yes, about 1500 miles east!
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Rob Bareiss, New London CT ::: 86 244DL, 87 244DL, 88 744GLE, 91 244: 808K total

Oh oh. According to my theory, when the next big earthquake comes, everything EAST of the San Andreas fault is going to fall into the Atlantic ocean.

Manolo (in California)

didn't you hear? Both the East and West coasts are supposed to sink into the ocean in a big earthquake!

Greg
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