[lifesnotfair]

Hello everyone. I'm from the Dominican Republic and I'm considering buying one of the two following Supras. I'll mention the prices in our value, "peso", which is about 1/33 of a US dollar. But you'll get the picture.

Both are '88, both have the pre-89 front bumper (which I don't like), and both have the pre-89 tail lights (which I don't like either). So that I'd do to any of these.

#1. Red (recently painted, so in great paint conditions) with grey interior. Stock 7M N/A engine with automatic tranny. Stock rims, stock everything. Everything works on this one, it's nearly flawless. Even a radio with equalizer and nice speakers. Nice A/C, power everything... very minor interior wear (like the e-brake boot, a tiny little thing in left door), but overall excellent interior I'd say. Stock exhaust, stock air intake... NOT Targa. 90,000.

#2. White, seems to be on stock paint, which is in good conditions for it's age, and the Targa (yeah, this one is Targa) is painted black. Doesn't look bad. Paint is good as I said, but paint in the red one is obviously better. Dark-red interior in nearly flawless conditions as well, although speedometer doesn't work, the glass (or plastic) in the cluster is broken, and the glovebox doesn't open (well, you have to stick your finger to the hole and work it out... and no, this didn't have a second meaning :P ) .. The windshield on this one is cracked (long crack) and would need to be changed. This has an aftermarket muffler, but stock exhaust pipes (2-1/4 right?). It has 17" BBS rims that look quite nice on it. A/C also very fine, everything seems to work... This one was originally a 7M-GTE Supra, but it has now a 1G Turbo engine (twin turbo I believe), which manual tranny. It pulls obviously much stronger than the auto, but still not as hard as I'd wish. It has a radio too, although I didn't even look at it, heh. 150,000.

I want a daily driver. I want it to be fast... not a 12-sec car of course, but a fast car for a daily driver. I like going sideways sometimes so I'd have to buy a posy differential, which none of these have. I hate auto trannies so I'd have to change the one in the cheap one, and I'd obviously change that engine as well. I just cannot seem to decide myself.

Just so you guys have a clue... there's a 1JZ turbo, with manual tranny, ecu, wires and everything.. for sale for about 70,000.. that's just over the difference in prices of these two cars. Although a 1JZ might mean doing some more work, maybe not too much of a daily driver? Would it be safer to go with a 7M-GTE engine with some basic mods on it? That one would cost about half of the 1JZ, so with the money for the 1JZ alone, I could buy the 7M-GTE, a good set of rims, and probably an intercooler as well. Economically the 7M option seems the best... but in here (I don't know if it's because poeple are dumb in here or what), the 7M's have an AWFUL history... everybody keeps breaking them.. maybe due to the stock faults it comes up with? (I know little about that, could someone plz enlighten me??).

Anyways, what does anyone think?
A good set of rims would probably cost around 25,000, the 3" exhaust about 7,000... Would the automatic one look good with the manual tranny swap? Is it easy to make everything work again? Stock gauges and stuff?...