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[rikdee]

Hi all,

I have been a CCA member since 1991. Just discovered this site.

cars owned:

> 1991 535i
> 1993 M5
> 1995 M3
> 1998 318Ti
> 2005 330i ZHP (present car)

Amongst all listed, the ZHP is my favorite! I found it during March '09 and bought it without so much as a test drive. It was in a guy's garage with 4,965 miles on the clock. It took me about 30 seconds to write the check. My friend and I made a 1,600 mile trip to load and haul it home on a car trailer. It was bone stock when purchased with perfect sales, ownership, and maintenance records. I always buy ultra low mileage cars, and in every instance, travel to verify, inspect, and purchase. This one was a terrific find. Pretty much an enthusiasts build sheet, the only options are leather, xenons, and CWP.

Specs and enhancements:

> Silver Gray, black leather, Alcantara wheel
> 6MT
> rear (manual) and side sunshades
> Ultimate pedal covers
> stainless steel brake lines
> AFE filter element
> clear fronts and side markers
> black grille surround
> M door sills
> present mileage - 6,930
> all factory fluids have already been replaced
> location - SWFL

Respectfully,

Rick

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Rick, glad you joined the site. Of course, you know we need pictures of this beauty.

[kayger12]

Welcome to the Mafia, Rick. Great lineup of cars you have listed there!

[rikdee]

Rick, glad you joined the site. Of course, you know we need pictures of this beauty.

Not quite sure how to upload pictures. I do have a large photo shoot (file) of the car conducted shortly after purhcase in its stock configuration. I could email the file.

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Rick, you just need to host the pictures at a photohosting site, something like Photobucket.com.

Then, once you have done that, you can easily link the pictures here (by using the "insert image" option here).

[danewilson77]

Welcome to la familia...

[gr330zhp]

WHAT?!?!? 6k miles???

Sooooo cool!

Pics please! And pics of the M door sills. I have been wanting to find some of these forever! Sunshades too. You my friend have an extremely rare car :)

Welcome!

[Alphatek45]

Waiting on pics too :)
welcome to the club.

[bimmer848]

great list! welcome

[MrMaico]

Nice! No way I could keep the miles that low on my car though. If you want you can send some pics to mrmaico AT gmail.com and I will host them for you. Just let me know in this thread since I don't check that e mail all that often.

Barry

[danewilson77]

> present mileage - 116,930


Fixed.

[rikdee]

WHAT?!?!? 6k miles???

Sooooo cool!

Pics please! And pics of the M door sills. I have been wanting to find some of these forever! Sunshades too. You my friend have an extremely rare car :)

Welcome!

My friend,

The door sills are those still available from BMW as are the sunshades; but, neither set is cheap. The rear s/s is a bit of a job to install, the side shades simply snap in with the supplied clips. And, they can be simply snapped out and stored in the supplied 'storage bag' if one feels the need to do so. I tend to leave mine fully deployed. Also, they more or less obviate the need for tint application, which on this car, I am not going to do. Also, IMHO, they give a cool Euro look to the car, nicely shrouding the rear interior. Send me a PM and I will return some photos.

Sunvisor set (sides) - 51-46-0-004-485
Sun blind rear (manual) - 51-46-9-415-462
Front M sills - 51-47-7-894-857 (purchased separately as left and right)
Rear sills - right - 51-47-7-891-988, left - 51-47-7-891-987

sills - http://www.realoem.com/bmw/showparts.do?model=EV53&mospid=47725&btnr=51_4263&hg=51&fg=95&hl=2

Rgds,

Rick

[mimalmo]

Welcome.

[rikdee]

Nice! No way I could keep the miles that low on my car though. If you want you can send some pics to mrmaico AT gmail.com and I will host them for you. Just let me know in this thread since I don't check that e mail all that often.

Barry

File sent, thanks!

[MrMaico]

File sent, thanks!

Got em. They are pretty small though, do you have any bigger versions? I probably won't get a chance to upload them till tomorrow though so feel free to send bigger ones if you have them. Or maybe gmail doesn't allow bigger ones? I thought they did though. If not, try sending them also to me @msn.com.

Barry

[rikdee]

Got em. They are pretty small though, do you have any bigger versions? I probably won't get a chance to upload them till tomorrow though so feel free to send bigger ones if you have them. Or maybe gmail doesn't allow bigger ones? I thought they did though. If not, try sending them also to me @msn.com.

Barry

Un-resized pix sent to msn.com

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Rick, if you go to Photobucket.com, and upload your pictures there, you'll easily be able to post your pictures here.

[rikdee]

Rick, if you go to Photobucket.com, and upload your pictures there, you'll easily be able to post your pictures here.

If this fails, I'll give it a shot. Thanks.

[danewilson77]

I support pb...totally.

[MrMaico]

Here you go..... http://mrmaico.smugmug.com/Cars/RD/14946374_wJg6A#1115941192_8bZrP

Click on 'share' in the upper right of the main page to get a url to each photo you want to post.

http://mrmaico.smugmug.com/Cars/RD/Page5a/1115941803_jvB5d-X2.jpg

[MrMaico]

http://mrmaico.smugmug.com/Cars/RD/Page7a/1115942724_Vy8AU-X2.jpg
WOW! Nice......with 6000 miles it should be though.:)

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Beautiful car.

[onepercent]

Damn that's clean. Great find.

[Mike V]

Wow nice car and welcome!

[Linh]

Wow nice car and welcome!

+1

[ZSP-Mafia]

Such a clean car. BMWCCA member since '91? I was still in diapers. :)

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Such a clean car. BMWCCA member since '91? I was still in diapers. :)

And I was in college -- and broke. Most definitely wasn't thinking about a BMW.

What's your member number, Rick?

[Pooters]

Holy. Your car is clean, looks good, man.

[rikdee]

And I was in college -- and broke. Most definitely wasn't thinking about a BMW.

What's your member number, Rick?

104xxx

[Marcus-SanDiego]

104xxx

Cool. You were way before me. I am 197xxx.

[rikdee]

Cool. You were way before me. I am 197xxx.


Yeah, just missed a 5 digit number. BTW, sorry for my delayed response; I hadn't checked this thread in a few days.

Rick

[Marcus-SanDiego]

Yeah, just missed a 5 digit number. BTW, sorry for my delayed response; I hadn't checked this thread in a few days.

Rick

No worries, Rick. Just glad you made it back.