where to start!
well i have always been a big chevy fan, and driving trucks, so heavy vehicles were a custom.
being a young mecanic i was my neibor had a 84 toyota celica gt that needed a cluch, his son , who is one of my friends bought the car for 700 and abused her, and only got to drive her a month before the cluch went, needing a car for getting around i decided to pick up the ugly little beast (perfect body just not my type of front end..) and my friend got another settlement check in and purchased a 94ish 240sx with the dohc motor, after replacing tghe clutch an driving the car for over a year, my friend had been drinking and driving and put his 240 into a curb. and it was an auto !
while, i had picked up a pizza deliverin job and had some spare cash and was really starting to love the fast back hatch style cars, i offered him 500 bucks for the 240, whitch he turned down for a project s10 extended cab, witha 305&700r tranny, he had no idea what he as doing, and sold that truck to another one of my friends for 300 bucks.. knowing it was time for me to find a better looking car for multiple purposese, i searched the net for rwd cars, speficily the hatch style, really loved 240's but didn't want to invest alot of money into getting a turbo motor or building one from ground up, looked at the old 300z' and 280's didn't like the cramped engine bays of the v6 TT 300z, so voided that car off my list,
when i came across the mkiii, i had been looking at mkii's (being hat they had the same body as my 84 celica with a different front end) and found a site that had the car's history and modle years. and found the sexy car i wanted!
sine i now had my mind set on the car it was time to wait for the project i wanted. started saving my money up, and found a great deal on a down pipe, and purchased it before i ever had my car in the drive way.
abut a month later, i was at les schwab getting used tires and picked up the paper, flipped to the toyota section, and saw, 88 n/a targa ,red 158k bhg, 500 firm. i called hima dn made arangements to take alook at the car. the motor was in the hatch area' but the car was perfect, color was in good shape, and had a minor leak in targa, but no stains and just dirty from crumbs an paper's he never cleaned the car out, the seats were trashed but made no difference.
knowing i wanted a turbo i asked my grandmother for a graduation present for making it through high school, she agreed to purchase me a jdm 7mgte, and the rest is now history! and it's only been a year.
i love this car, i notice people staring all the time, and took me awhile to get used to, my new gf notices alot of people staring aswell, i always let her know it's cause she;'s beautfull, but after she denies it, i let her know they were probaly checkin out my car then.. :biglaugh:
this car is worth every penny i have spent, and multiplies it's self by every high dollar car i spank. sti's , vette's honda's HAHA, and even have gaven a few liter bikes a good run for the money
