And the Winner Is…
Published: June 27th, 2011
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A BMW has taken the overall win at the Pacific Northworst 24 Hours of LeMons, but it wasn’t yet another dime-a-dozen E30. Nope, the winner this time was the bigger and more dignified E28 5 Series.
Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.
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About ten years ago, the NJBMWCCA had a guy who aced autocross in his e28. I thought it was an anomaly. Any idea which engine this had?
I have driven a series of 528e s for 15 yrs. I entertained entering my son's college beater, a twice totaled 86 in the nearest LeMons I could just trailer it down along with its stablemate, another 86 for parts. Alas, I was too broke and the Grape was too rusty. I was confident, that I could make it last a weekend of roundy- round. The car was no stranger to weekend enduros conducted on interstate highways. The 528e is the commuter version. Keep the timing belt good and they will run fine for 3-400K miles. They could top 100 mph and run at 80 all day with 350K miles on the clock, BTDT I drove my first one 11 yrs and added 200k to the 150 that was on it when I bought it. I maintain the cars in the driveway. They can take a licking crash wise too.