by "Jeff Strickland" <crwlr@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>
May 3, 2008 at 04:27 PM
"Anthony Wilson" <tw1985fla@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
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> "John Burns" <john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
> news:481C6CD4.421C@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> > I was wondering why BMW's in Europe appear to be named E39 or
something
>> > similar. I live in Florida and have a 1988 735i. Could someone please
> tell
>> > me what this would be called with the other system? Thanks in
advance.
>>
>> See my site's E&M numbers page for an explanation. A US 88 could be
>> either a late E23 or an early E32. In the UK it would be an E32, we got
>> the E32 in late 87. But I think the US was about a year later?
>>
>>
>> --
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>> Email: john@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
John G.Burns B.Eng, Bonny Scotland
>> Web : http://www.unixnerd.demon.co.uk
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>
> Thank you both for the info. I don't know when the car was sold, I am
the
> third owner. I got it in 2001 with 110k miles and perfect shape. It was
> the
> family car for my ex-wife's sister. Her husband owns a large foreign car
> repair shop so I got it fixed for free.
>
>
It does not matter when it was sold, it only matters when it was built.
There should be a placard on the driver's door pillar (B pillar) that
gives
the production date.
