@borpsmobile love the story, and I can confirm your price point; in fact, I can go a little lower when still living in the UK.
I bought a black with black and red 2000 Z8 for 45k (UK pounds) in 2003. Moved to the US in 2005 and sold that Z8 in the UK (didn't realise I could have brought it here) and walked into Park Place Motors here in Bellevue, WA and purchased a Topaz with Black, 12k miles for $90k, that was full retail.
Loved that Topaz car, but did a deal on an important classic and the seller insisted on the Topaz Z8 in trade. I thought ok, won't be hard to get another; eventually found a standard silver-black car with 14k miles in CA for $82,500. That was not a good car; literally every known fault it ended up having- you name it, and it happened: Vanos, shrunken dash, strings on soft top, etc.
One day, West Coast BMW dealer is in my warehouse, sees the car and asks if I would sell, I said sure but it has some needs, he was "no problem as a dealer; I can have it all dealt with in-house." sold it to him at cost and went looking again ...............market ran away and I never got back in.
One day I will, but it's so hard to pay up when you have owned and sold at less than half current numbers
