[SupraSaver87]

Well finding my supra kind of happened all at once for me. I had just gotten a job, and now since I was making money, I wanted a car. I am 19, drivers for 3 years, and never owned a car....I was willing to buy just about anything.

So I started my search at the classified adds on my cities website. While looking through there for something around $2500 I saw the title "1987 Toyota Supra Turbo"

Me: "An MKIII......HOW MUCH HOW MUCH HOW MUCH!!!"

I open up the add, and there infront of me sat all the information I had written down on a paper titled "My dream car before my dream car". It was black, 5spd, targa top, with 264,000kms, good running condition.

I was happy....then I looked at the price...$1,500. Now I was really happy. So I went to go out there to look at the car. When I get there he tells me that he uses it everyday to go to work and back. So I am thinking, "Cool, means he isn't shit ripping it, and it may still have some life left in it".

Then I asked what KNOWN problems it has:

Brake rotors warped
Leak in gas tank
Running light busted
Exhaust....well there really isn't much.

So those are all ok things, so I ask to drive it. I took it for a small boot, not driving it hard...seriously. It still had good power, turbo spooled, no noises other than a little sputtering near 4,500RPM.

Alright I told him I would think about it, and I did, and I wanted it.....NOW! But I couldn't get the cash together...since I had only been at my job for 3 weeks.....I had no cash. SO I keep telling him that I want to buy it, and that I will find the cash....and before long he tells me that I can have it for $1,000 if I want to still buy it......suprise suprise..... couldn't get enough cash together for even that.....then I got one more email from him....I was thinking it was going to detail the sale of the car to someone else...it read only this:...

"If you are still at all interested, you can have it for $500"

I bought it the next day!

Since then I have redone the spark plugs with the highest quality spark, and life. Put those bad boys in....and guess what I found out when I did....the 6th cylinder WASN'T EVEN HOOKED UP....so I was pouring fuel into that cylinder without having to.......oh well, it works now, and the sputter at high RPM is gone too.

There is body work that needs to be done, and some other manditory-to-get-it-safetied things. I also found out that I have a boost leak.

Q: Am I doing damage by having a boost leak....basically it just runs the engine rich.....I hope I am correct in that.

So yeah, I bought the "Car before my dream car" for $500, and the 7M-GTE engine is still running great....not even a blown head gasket (Oh yeah, all parts on engine are factory (As in from 1987), and it hasn't had any major things replace).

With the last above brackets said.....I know I must now replace almost everything, for peice of mind, and also so I know where the car sits parts wise.

That is my story guys....hope you enjoyed it.