Baklava's E24 Mountain Goat Has Never Left Queens

The Baklava E24 Mountain Goat spent another afternoon sideways on a backroad, and the detail worth stopping on is where the car comes from. It has only ever lived in Queens, and every rebuild and every round of maintenance on it happened there too. Baklava Motorsport, the garage Action Bronson's label has grown into, filmed it dirty dancing through the dirt in a clip credited to vincerappa_dp.

Queens Is the Whole Provenance

The Mountain Goat is a Queens car from end to end. It was rebuilt in Queens and it is maintained in Queens. A one borough history is also the kind of detail a seller leads with, and here nobody is selling.

The first Mountain Goat clip, covered when Baklava debuted a Group B style racer, credited The Custom Shop NYC, a Queens shop, and a filmer named Vince. This new footage carries the credit vincerappa_dp. The two credits may point to the same person, but the posts do not say so, and that is as far as the record goes.

A 1987 M6 Was Never Meant for Dirt

The E24 is BMW's 6 Series coupe of the 1980s, and the M6 sits at the top of that family. Over the production run from 1983 to 1989, 5,855 M635CSi and M6 cars were built, and 1,767 of them were made for the North American market. Those are small numbers for a car that now gets pulled out onto loose surfaces.

Under the hood is the S38 straight six, an engine derived from the M1's M88 unit. The American version was detuned with lower compression and a catalytic converter, which brought it to 256 horsepower and roughly 243 lb ft of torque. That is a tuned road engine in a coupe built for pavement, not a purpose built rally car, which is why a Mountain Goat nickname lands as a joke and a boast at once.

The earlier Baklava piece described the car as a 1987 M6 converted into a lifted build, and the Mountain Goat name fits that stance. The caption on this clip gives the model as the E24 and leaves the rest to the footage.

Kith Restored One of These to Sit Still

A second E24 M6 made news this summer, and it sits at the opposite end of the spectrum. For its fourth BMW chapter, Kith rebuilt a 1987 M6 E24 on a rotisserie around its S38, a Getrag five speed manual, the original differential, suspension and brakes, and OEM BBS Style 5 wheels. The interior was finished in caramel leather embossed with the Kith monogram, and the car was never offered for sale. It exists as a design reference for an apparel collection.

Set the two side by side and you get the whole range of what an E24 can be in 2026. One was restored to be looked at and used as a color reference. The other is being driven hard on a backroad in a car rebuilt in Queens.

From a Sneaker to a Stolen Sample to a Car

Baklava's trail through this year has been unusually varied. On July 14, the label premiered a short film for its New Balance 2811 chapter one. On September 23, a pair tied to the Whisperer 2811 was reported stolen before its drop. The Mountain Goat is the third thread, and it is the one that does not need a retailer.

A shoe needs a release date and a raffle. A car in Queens needs a garage, a mechanic and a field. The label is moving from objects it sells to objects it simply keeps, and nothing in this clip is for sale. There is no product link and no drop date attached to the post.

Dirt Is the Point

The caption calls it dirty dancing on the backroads, and the verb is the claim. A Group B inspired build exists to move sideways on a surface that punishes a stiff car, and the E24 does not ship with that kind of travel. Whoever built it in Queens had to solve that problem with parts and time, and the solution keeps getting filmed.

What the record supports is narrow and specific. There is a BMW E24, one more clip, and no commercial plan on display. What it does not support is any claim about horsepower changes, suspension work or a production run, because none of that has been published. If Baklava Motorsport ever lists its specs, the Mountain Goat will stop being a mystery. Until then, the fact in the caption is the one that holds: the car has never left Queens.