So the supra has pretty much been the car that I have wanted since I first began driving. Unfortunately like a lot of people, couldn't afford one, knew that, accepted the fact and just stuck with the hondas for a little while before moving to the dsm world. Well as luck would have it, my Dad has his dealer's liscense and used to attend auctions pretty frequently. Well it just so happened that my project popped up there one day and we brought it home for a whopping $1700!
So here we go. It is a 97 Targa top, NA automatic. So it definately wasn't my first choice, but in this case, I had no choice so I wasn't about to complain. I now had a supra, and couldn't be happier.
Now a lot of people would say, and they DID say, strip it of the good parts, sell them, and try to find me another one. Well that's not mine, nor my dad's mentality in situations like this. We take what we have and fix it. We would have never even got the car if we didn't feel confident in ourselves that we could fix it.
So here we go:
This is what the beauty looked like when we got it home
Everything on the front end is jacked, and some of the motor parts, but other than where the car spun around and hit something in the back, the car is nearly perfect. Me and my Dad checked all of the door lines, and stuff before we ever bought the car to make sure that none of them were pinched. And they weren't so this let us know that all of the damage was only done to the front as far as the frame goes.
Well, I absolutely couldn't stand the wheels that were on the car when we bought it, so I went ahead and went the cheap way out (trust me people, I am a broke a$$ college student) and bought a set of wheels from ebay. 18x8 and 18x10. They look pretty good if you ask me but they are pretty heavy. Oh well, I will trade some wieght for some better looks.
Well I spent a few months looking all around online trying to find a complete front clip that way I could just buy it with everything I needed instead of trying to find the pieces one by one. Well that didn't work out and the 2 or so that I found were nowhere close to me. So I had to find something else. And something else I found after searching and talking to some people they recommended that I call a man by the name of Jim. Some of ya'll may know him. Owns Turbo Toys in Tampa. Much closer to home for me, and this is what he had for me.
Completely bare, gutted, stripped everything shell but the front half was good and it was all that I needed:
Thanks Jim!
Me and my Dad got it home, and didn't waste a second hoping on it since I was only home for the weekend.
So here we go. It is a 97 Targa top, NA automatic. So it definately wasn't my first choice, but in this case, I had no choice so I wasn't about to complain. I now had a supra, and couldn't be happier.
Now a lot of people would say, and they DID say, strip it of the good parts, sell them, and try to find me another one. Well that's not mine, nor my dad's mentality in situations like this. We take what we have and fix it. We would have never even got the car if we didn't feel confident in ourselves that we could fix it.
So here we go:
This is what the beauty looked like when we got it home
Everything on the front end is jacked, and some of the motor parts, but other than where the car spun around and hit something in the back, the car is nearly perfect. Me and my Dad checked all of the door lines, and stuff before we ever bought the car to make sure that none of them were pinched. And they weren't so this let us know that all of the damage was only done to the front as far as the frame goes.
Well, I absolutely couldn't stand the wheels that were on the car when we bought it, so I went ahead and went the cheap way out (trust me people, I am a broke a$$ college student) and bought a set of wheels from ebay. 18x8 and 18x10. They look pretty good if you ask me but they are pretty heavy. Oh well, I will trade some wieght for some better looks.
Well I spent a few months looking all around online trying to find a complete front clip that way I could just buy it with everything I needed instead of trying to find the pieces one by one. Well that didn't work out and the 2 or so that I found were nowhere close to me. So I had to find something else. And something else I found after searching and talking to some people they recommended that I call a man by the name of Jim. Some of ya'll may know him. Owns Turbo Toys in Tampa. Much closer to home for me, and this is what he had for me.
Completely bare, gutted, stripped everything shell but the front half was good and it was all that I needed:
Thanks Jim!
Me and my Dad got it home, and didn't waste a second hoping on it since I was only home for the weekend.
