Date:         Tue, 6 Apr 2004 19:12:35 -0400
Reply-To:     John Runberg <jrunberg@MAC.COM>
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From:         John Runberg <jrunberg@MAC.COM>
Subject:      Re: that '89 Bluestar/Wolfsburg on ebay sold for $6100
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Point is valid, but logic is off here.

If I've read the posts correctly, the "Bluestar" is different in name only (and original point of sale) while an M3 is a very, very different car than a normal BMW. There's no performance difference, only a badge and serial number.

Personally, to pay three times as much for something which is identical, exept in name, is excessive, but people do different things. On the surface anyone who'd pay so much more for the same thing is posing themselves <grin - flame suit on!>. Simple answer would be just to assume that it's fake unless the seller (or whomever) proves otherwise. That, and wear flame-proof undies.

Is it Friday yet?

john

> So Chris is your van a Porsche Boxster too? Oh? But it has a Boster badge?
> Doesn't that make it a Boxster? This reminds me when I used to be into Mustangs.
> You had all these guys were sticking 428CJ badges on their small block 351W
> powered Mach 1's. The Camaro guys had a bunch putting 454 on their fender's
> front edges. I thought that was the end of that until I got into BMW's. BMW sold
> tons of M3 emblems. Way more than any M3 ever built. There was even an Isetta
> running around in BMW Motorsport colors with the selfsame M3 emblem. Oh I get
> it!!! The emblem made them go so much faster. In the land of NOT. POSERS, the
> whole lot of them.