Hello everybody 
Been lurking on this site for over 2 years now, and decided to join now that I own my first Supra. My name is Lafayette (Faye for short, since Lafayette is a dude's name, clears things up a bit) and I live, work, and go to school in Portland, Oregon. I am an Automotive technology student at a local community college full time, and work as an "entry level tech" (aka oil change, fluid flush and brake slave) at an independent shop, specializing in import cars: mainly VW and Subaru, but I get to see the occasional Honda and Toyota of course. My coworkers call me "the crazy cat lady of cars" because I tend to personify and get overly-attached to my vehicles (thus, I have 4), want to take home and care for all of the abused customer vehicles that I service at work, and will go weeks of eating nothing but peanut butter sandwiches after spending my entire paycheck on parts. *sigh*
I started out my car enthusiast life from the womb, but really didn't touch my first wrench until I picked up a 1980 diesel VW rabbit that I purchased in 2008 and promptly blew up the motor about a month later. Having not enough money to buy a new car, (and not the heart to sell "Gaia" as I named her, to the scrap demons) I decided to buy a set of tools for myself from the Sears Father's Day tool sale instead. One thing lead to another, to another, and well... here I am. Several engine builds later on that car, and now she's actually shop-bound once more for the final touches to an engine swap from a '96 GTI that I finished rebuilding ... oh ... about 6 months ago (I am slow at the whole "wiring part")
But enough with the boring you on VWs, now I added a Supra to the collection. I actually bought my Supra from another member (Ben, aka MA71), and am in the process of ironing out her kinks and straightening her body. She's an '89 Ice Blue Pearl (my favorite color Supra, though I know you all hate it) 5 speed turbo targa with some tasteful mods, and some hacked (that I am slowly un-doing!), sitting on a decent set of my favorite Panasports Well worth the couple years of waiting that I took to find the perfect one for me.
Okay, well that's me in a nutshell. I look forward to talking with/learning from you all on the forums while I fix up my Supra! Thanks for reading
-Faye
Been lurking on this site for over 2 years now, and decided to join now that I own my first Supra. My name is Lafayette (Faye for short, since Lafayette is a dude's name, clears things up a bit) and I live, work, and go to school in Portland, Oregon. I am an Automotive technology student at a local community college full time, and work as an "entry level tech" (aka oil change, fluid flush and brake slave) at an independent shop, specializing in import cars: mainly VW and Subaru, but I get to see the occasional Honda and Toyota of course.
My coworkers call me "the crazy cat lady of cars" because I tend to personify and get overly-attached to my vehicles (thus, I have 4), want to take home and care for all of the abused customer vehicles that I service at work, and will go weeks of eating nothing but peanut butter sandwiches after spending my entire paycheck on parts. *sigh*I started out my car enthusiast life from the womb, but really didn't touch my first wrench until I picked up a 1980 diesel VW rabbit that I purchased in 2008 and promptly blew up the motor about a month later. Having not enough money to buy a new car, (and not the heart to sell "Gaia" as I named her, to the scrap demons) I decided to buy a set of tools for myself from the Sears Father's Day tool sale instead. One thing lead to another, to another, and well... here I am. Several engine builds later on that car, and now she's actually shop-bound once more for the final touches to an engine swap from a '96 GTI that I finished rebuilding ... oh ... about 6 months ago (I am slow at the whole "wiring part")
But enough with the boring you on VWs, now I added a Supra to the collection. I actually bought my Supra from another member (Ben, aka MA71), and am in the process of ironing out her kinks and straightening her body. She's an '89 Ice Blue Pearl (my favorite color Supra, though I know you all hate it) 5 speed turbo targa with some tasteful mods, and some hacked (that I am slowly un-doing!), sitting on a decent set of my favorite Panasports
Well worth the couple years of waiting that I took to find the perfect one for me.
Okay, well that's me in a nutshell. I look forward to talking with/learning from you all on the forums while I fix up my Supra! Thanks for reading
-Faye
