how did you get your Supra?

Skyer · 07-17-2005, 07:45 PM

Well I'll start....
the thing about getting a used car is the fact that the car has a story to tell in most cases, sport cars are no different and in some cases they even have better stories. Some of us prolly got our supras out of junkyards ready to be scrapped and had to salvage them, repair them and then fixe them up. Well I got two little stories to tell of how I got my supras.
About two years ago my brother heard about this guy who was talking about calling a wrecker truck to pull the supra on his yard out and take it to get junked. my brother heard about it and asked the dude if he could take a look at it. So he went over to take a look at the car. the car had all four tires flat, the paint was almost pink because of the sun, the windshield was cracked, and there was the biggest oil and mud pool under the car and when he opened it it reeked of cigarretes. The car had been sitting there for almost two years! My brother saw hope on the machine and asked the guy if he would sell it. The guy sold it to my brother for 1,000 dlls. the next weekend my brother went to pick it up and to the suprise of everyone, once they replaced the battery, added some oil and water and added that easy start spray, the car ran!!!!!!!!! it clanked like a mofo but it ran! he drove it from the guy's house to our house and after one night of being parked outside the house it peed all of its fluids again. so he had to drive it to my dad's shop (where it will later receive a new engine.) well to end this quicky the car died right the moment they were going to park it. in other words, the car only ran from the guys house to the shop because it knew it was going to be fixed (who said machines are not alive

)

now for the other supra.

Me and my dad got up early last saturday went to dixie rents and got a dolly, we also borrowed a extended cab 4x4 S-10 from a friend of mine and went across town to fetch the supra we had earlier seen in a mechanic show in a forsaken part of nashvillage.
the guys were "expecting" us with everything ready for us to tow the car out........ or so they said. when we got there we (I mean everyone in the shop) spent two hours looking for the keys to the vehicle to no avail. finnally we decided to call a locksmith. So now we were waiting for the locksmith to show up. also the guy at the shop said his cousing was on his way with the title. 4 hours later no keys, no locksmith, no title. my dad somehow manages to break into the car (without any damage done to the vehicle I might add) and managed to kinda almost straighten the front wheels before the steering locked, and put the car into Neutral. Great! we can now tow the car!!! but the car was at an angle and there was no way to put the truck and dolly in there and we couldn't steer the car either. a guy with a wrecker shows up to dump a car there and he decided to help us drag the car out of there. so he basically hooked a chain to a rear suspension arm and pulls the car sideways out of the lot and set's it on the road kinda straight. well, now we had the car outside! the locksmith shows up! he gets into it and dismantles a door to ge a lock to make a key. he makes the key and it turns all locks in the car but the ignition. so we paid the guy and he left. we have a key for the car that didn't help us at all. now we are ready to get the car in the dolly, well, the car is facing up hill, so we have to push the car uphill onto the dolly. 6 of us get on the back of the car (including the locksmith and some clients from the mechanic shop) and push the car onto the dolly. we are done..... but wait! what happened to the tittle? the guys cousin never showed up so the guy let us take the car without paying him for it and he would later give us the tittle and keys. we signed a paper saying that we didnt steal the car and we towed the car home at 30 miles an hour so we wouldn't damage the tranny severely. We stoped six times on the way to allow the auto tranny to cool off a bit since it was being towed without any lub. and finnally made it home just to realize that our neighboors were having a bash and there was cars everywhere. I live in a dead end street so as some of you may know, you can't back up or make tight turns with a dolly. so we had to park the whole rig in the middle of the street and wait till 2 am till some space was made to drop the car. still we had to somehow make that hairpin turn. we did make the turn draging the dolly sideways a few feet (don't tell dixie rents) and we finally dropped the car.... to far of the sidewalk. so we had to get out jack lift the front end and push the car to line it up with the sidewalk. well at last and 4 in the morning after being up at 7 we got the car home safe and sound. I am picking the tittle and keys at six today and starting repairs soon after.

I know I said they were going to be short, I tried to make them short :P
if you got interesting stories of how you got your supra let's hear them.

07-17-2005, 07:45 PM	#1
Skyer Stock Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 17	Well I'll start.... the thing about getting a used car is the fact that the car has a story to tell in most cases, sport cars are no different and in some cases they even have better stories. Some of us prolly got our supras out of junkyards ready to be scrapped and had to salvage them, repair them and then fixe them up. Well I got two little stories to tell of how I got my supras. About two years ago my brother heard about this guy who was talking about calling a wrecker truck to pull the supra on his yard out and take it to get junked. my brother heard about it and asked the dude if he could take a look at it. So he went over to take a look at the car. the car had all four tires flat, the paint was almost pink because of the sun, the windshield was cracked, and there was the biggest oil and mud pool under the car and when he opened it it reeked of cigarretes. The car had been sitting there for almost two years! My brother saw hope on the machine and asked the guy if he would sell it. The guy sold it to my brother for 1,000 dlls. the next weekend my brother went to pick it up and to the suprise of everyone, once they replaced the battery, added some oil and water and added that easy start spray, the car ran!!!!!!!!! it clanked like a mofo but it ran! he drove it from the guy's house to our house and after one night of being parked outside the house it peed all of its fluids again. so he had to drive it to my dad's shop (where it will later receive a new engine.) well to end this quicky the car died right the moment they were going to park it. in other words, the car only ran from the guys house to the shop because it knew it was going to be fixed (who said machines are not alive ) now for the other supra. Me and my dad got up early last saturday went to dixie rents and got a dolly, we also borrowed a extended cab 4x4 S-10 from a friend of mine and went across town to fetch the supra we had earlier seen in a mechanic show in a forsaken part of nashvillage. the guys were "expecting" us with everything ready for us to tow the car out........ or so they said. when we got there we (I mean everyone in the shop) spent two hours looking for the keys to the vehicle to no avail. finnally we decided to call a locksmith. So now we were waiting for the locksmith to show up. also the guy at the shop said his cousing was on his way with the title. 4 hours later no keys, no locksmith, no title. my dad somehow manages to break into the car (without any damage done to the vehicle I might add) and managed to kinda almost straighten the front wheels before the steering locked, and put the car into Neutral. Great! we can now tow the car!!! but the car was at an angle and there was no way to put the truck and dolly in there and we couldn't steer the car either. a guy with a wrecker shows up to dump a car there and he decided to help us drag the car out of there. so he basically hooked a chain to a rear suspension arm and pulls the car sideways out of the lot and set's it on the road kinda straight. well, now we had the car outside! the locksmith shows up! he gets into it and dismantles a door to ge a lock to make a key. he makes the key and it turns all locks in the car but the ignition. so we paid the guy and he left. we have a key for the car that didn't help us at all. now we are ready to get the car in the dolly, well, the car is facing up hill, so we have to push the car uphill onto the dolly. 6 of us get on the back of the car (including the locksmith and some clients from the mechanic shop) and push the car onto the dolly. we are done..... but wait! what happened to the tittle? the guys cousin never showed up so the guy let us take the car without paying him for it and he would later give us the tittle and keys. we signed a paper saying that we didnt steal the car and we towed the car home at 30 miles an hour so we wouldn't damage the tranny severely. We stoped six times on the way to allow the auto tranny to cool off a bit since it was being towed without any lub. and finnally made it home just to realize that our neighboors were having a bash and there was cars everywhere. I live in a dead end street so as some of you may know, you can't back up or make tight turns with a dolly. so we had to park the whole rig in the middle of the street and wait till 2 am till some space was made to drop the car. still we had to somehow make that hairpin turn. we did make the turn draging the dolly sideways a few feet (don't tell dixie rents) and we finally dropped the car.... to far of the sidewalk. so we had to get out jack lift the front end and push the car to line it up with the sidewalk. well at last and 4 in the morning after being up at 7 we got the car home safe and sound. I am picking the tittle and keys at six today and starting repairs soon after. I know I said they were going to be short, I tried to make them short :P if you got interesting stories of how you got your supra let's hear them.