I came across a deal on Kijiji (used buy/sell site). I decided to jump on it (mid 90's bmw for $800). I have the same car and I needed the rad so I figured I could snag some parts for myself.

It took about 3 weeks of me picking at it in the evenings to salvage all I could off it. I stripped all I could out of it; but left the Iron block and transmission. Otherwise there wasn't much left;

Overall it went pretty well;



$200 for the stripped body (not rolling; and this was having them take it away)
$120 - Cats (currently at ebay)
$50 in scrap for the head and other metal work left over from the scrapping
$2350 so far in used part sales; still have lots of parts to go but likely many of them will just be scrapped as all the desirable parts seem to be gone.

Some things I learned.
It wasn't worth the effort to take all the steel off the head. Even with just some cut off studs remaining they would only give me the irony aluminum price. I wasted too much time on this

There was a 0 gauge wire leading from the battery in the back to the engine compartment. I stripped this in a few minutes and it got me $13 in copper

I think the money from the resold parts was mostly a fluke; I just stumbled upon the right car at the right time. Luck was a big factor. But I'm definitively keeping my eye out for more cars like this. I had the advantage of knowing the car really well before buying it and knowing its and enthusiasts car which people are always looking for parts from.