OK... Here's the background....
A short time ago, this car was driven through the wall of a lunch bar in the northern suburbs of Perth.
A mate of mine was called to extract it. The owner (the mother of the driver) elected to sign the keys over to the my mate rather than try to fix it.
Knowing I had a thing for Supra's, he called me and offered it to me at a really good price.
Of course I said yes, and the other night, it was delivered. It just so happens it was a full moon the next night, so perfect for some night photography... (There's a bit of extra lighting in most of these shots too)
And of course, I just had to climb on the bonnet for the last shot... Finally, a bonnet I don't care about denting!
Now, like the topic says, I don't know how this is going to end.... The vast majority of the damage is to removable panels and the rest would not be too hard to repair. However, if I do that, at the end of the day, I'll have a stock, auto, MA70 hardtop (turbo, but thats about all thats going for it)...
The way I'm leaning at the moment, is to strip the drivetrain and suspension out and put that toward a hot rod project I've been planning for a while, take some of the interior parts for my JZA70 (there are a few bits on it that are interchangable and in much better condition than mine), and strip the damaged bits off the shell and assess whats left as potentially the shell for a drag car or burnout car that I've also been thinking about building for a while...
Of course, to do all this would require a bit of time (that I can handle, as long as I can talk the real estate agent around when we have our rent inspections), a lot of money (which I don't have at the moment, but time is on my side) and a lot of space to work on 3 projects at once...
But, I'll see how I go and how much of this I can make happen....
A short time ago, this car was driven through the wall of a lunch bar in the northern suburbs of Perth.
A mate of mine was called to extract it. The owner (the mother of the driver) elected to sign the keys over to the my mate rather than try to fix it.
Knowing I had a thing for Supra's, he called me and offered it to me at a really good price.
Of course I said yes, and the other night, it was delivered. It just so happens it was a full moon the next night, so perfect for some night photography... (There's a bit of extra lighting in most of these shots too)
And of course, I just had to climb on the bonnet for the last shot... Finally, a bonnet I don't care about denting!
Now, like the topic says, I don't know how this is going to end.... The vast majority of the damage is to removable panels and the rest would not be too hard to repair. However, if I do that, at the end of the day, I'll have a stock, auto, MA70 hardtop (turbo, but thats about all thats going for it)...
The way I'm leaning at the moment, is to strip the drivetrain and suspension out and put that toward a hot rod project I've been planning for a while, take some of the interior parts for my JZA70 (there are a few bits on it that are interchangable and in much better condition than mine), and strip the damaged bits off the shell and assess whats left as potentially the shell for a drag car or burnout car that I've also been thinking about building for a while...
Of course, to do all this would require a bit of time (that I can handle, as long as I can talk the real estate agent around when we have our rent inspections), a lot of money (which I don't have at the moment, but time is on my side) and a lot of space to work on 3 projects at once...
But, I'll see how I go and how much of this I can make happen....
