As the title stated, This is the story of a 1990 Supra Turbo that had been crashed by its owner while drinking and driving. One day while looking for a daily beater on CL I stumble into this ad of "1989'' Supra Turbo that had been in an accident so i decided to check it out. When i get to the PO's house I see this Supra begging for help. The car looked liked and IED went off on the front pass side (Due to having an iFail I lost the pics that I took the night that i got her home). So I begin to think that i wasted my time by driving an hour to look at it. As i started walking back to my car my GF tells me to turn around and to at least look more thoroughly, so I comply. So as I begin to walk closer I caught a glimpse of the interior which was minty clean. So I decide to talk to the owner. After a quick chat, she hands me the keys and told me to open it. I do and to my surprise the interior was even better than i though it even smelled good (no leak smell lol). So i decided to start it up, but as I expected the Batt was dead. I went to my truck got a quart of oil put it in her (that what she said) and cranked her up with the efi fuse out to prime the oil and she then started on the first try. Again at this point my hopes when up one point, but after it fired up I bet my gf 10 that the car had a BHG. after :30 mins of idling no signs of BHG, and another point goes up lol. So I decided to take her out for a drive and man did she drive good aside from the rattling of the fender and bumper flapping in the wind. So at this point I saw somepotential in and after haglling the price to $900 she was all mine!! Even with her injured faced, blown shocks and dry rotted tires she made it all the back home which was a :45 - to an hour away. Everyone on the road looked at me like i was an idiot from diving such a POS. So a day goes by with my friend the sawzall In hand I went to townto try to take off that fender. After parts started to come off I started second guessing my purchase. I really did not like what i saw and i started giving up because finding parts for this car is such a hassle. My gf (which loves mk3) told me not to sell/ part her out to giver her a chance, So for the first time I decided to listen to her. So after a week i decided to give her a light tune up (which consisted of a HG job the proper way, cleaning everything and replacing every part that was worn I decided to fix her up. So after wasting hours trying to source parts and getting denied by body shops left and right. Shes finally looking better. I had gathered most of the parts that I needed and decided to drop it off to this fella to change my rad support (which was all bent to hell) what a big mistake. He tried to pull it instead of fixing which as you can guess, it ended up looking like shit, gaps everywhere and the mounting holes for the headlight were o far off that the hood wouldnt even close. I got her out of there and found this other shop through a friend, they wanted an arm and a leg to fix it right but after of sleepless night stressing out about the quote, I decided to go ahead and pay it. Well out of pure luck the money was def well spent...
This what she looked like with the fender off.
^Notice the leaves from sitting for almost 2 years.
The pass side foglight was completely destroyed
Notice the readiator support.
Found these little guys all over the car.
After HG changed oil pump and relocation (after 30 mins of driving)
That was after the guy tried to "fix it" Sorry for the 300zx wheels Im in the process of polishing my sawblades.
Note the misaligned hood, fender, wrong header panel and the lack of headlight. Damn me for not doing my reaseach on body shops.
This what she looked like with the fender off.
^Notice the leaves from sitting for almost 2 years.
The pass side foglight was completely destroyed
Notice the readiator support.
Found these little guys all over the car.
After HG changed oil pump and relocation (after 30 mins of driving)
That was after the guy tried to "fix it" Sorry for the 300zx wheels Im in the process of polishing my sawblades.
Note the misaligned hood, fender, wrong header panel and the lack of headlight. Damn me for not doing my reaseach on body shops.
ill snap new ones when I stop by the shop.
