Here we have a 1983 BMW 633CSI “Dinan.” What exactly is “Dinan” on the car? Who the hell knows? The ad doesn’t specify. Perhaps the present owner likes to drive around in it going dinan-dinan-dinan-dinan-dinan-dinan-dinan-dinan-dinan-dinan, BATMAN! Or, maybe it’s the very orange cross brace between the front strut towers that gains the car the additional tuner cachet.
This one is one of the later, E28-based beasts and it rocks an M30B32 SOHC straight six which was imbued at the factory with 181-bhp. A Getrag five-speed manual properly backs that up and likely gives the big coupe the best theft protection money can buy.
You get a fairly clean body and hair-shirt 17-inch wheels on the outside, while inside you’re presented with sport seats, a panel with extra gauges in the dash, and a steering wheel apparently stolen from an arcade machine. Yeah, that’d be about the first thing to go here.
What’s not to like? Well, the odometer says 140K but the seller says it’s a dirty liar and the actual mileage is somewhere in the range of 170K to 180K—remember all those trips between SF and LA. There’s also a non-working rear window, which is thankfully stuck in the full-up position. And then there’s this sentence in the ad: “…& driver door installed wich i have.” I don’t know what that means as I’m just not up on all the emoji that the kids use to snap their chats and pin their tresses these days.
(Jalopnik.com)
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