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No Reserve: 1998 BMW R1200C
BMW's cruiser experiment: the R1200C is basically what happens when Stuttgart tries to build a Harley and ends up with a 1200cc boxer engine that actually runs—3,500 miles on an Ivory beauty at $2.8k screams sleeper investment before the nostalgia tax kicks in. If you want shaft-drive reliability and German engineering masquerading as American iron, this no-reserve Thursday closer is your play.
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