**The car that got away **

[Supraholics]

Ok Fellas, we've all had that one car that we wished we kept it a little bit longer. Doesn't have to be the best car you ever had, just that one that got away too early. Post 'em up!!!!

For me it would have to be my old 87 Supra. It had a lot of 92 Supra parts swapped. This was back in 2002-2003. I was still in college and had put a lot of work into this car. Had more work to do like wheels and suspension etc, but nonetheless, it was coming along pretty well. I sold it because back then didn't have space to park it and had to keep it on the street.

Just painted - Midnight blue Metallic.

You can see the aftermarket Intercooler and neon lights :lol:

Freshly rebuilt motor with less then 1K. Notice how all the covers are color coded to match.

Custom gauges and the dash outline was also painted to match

Reflective vinyl sign. Made it myself. The design was accomplished between my buddy and I.

 

[oscolivar1]

damn dude sweet ride!

 

[suprahero]

:cry: It wasn't even mine and I miss it..................:love:

 

[Clip]

damn...looks so good. so you gettin it back?

 

[buckshotglass]

Sweet.
Yeah, I just posted pics of my first decent rod in the "how long you been modding cars" thread.
It got me wondering if you can find an old car you once had with the vin?

Never sell anything.

 

[Imprezademics]

I know exactly what you mean. My 91 Supra Turbo... should have never let her go. I regret it every time i get on this forum.

Willie

 

[Tanya]

I know exactly what you mean. My 91 Supra Turbo... should have never let her go. I regret it every time i get on this forum.

Willie

And every time you talk to me!

:biglaugh:

 

[Supraholics]

Thanks for the comments guys. Hopefully my new project will wipe the tears of my face...:evil2: :evil2:

Check out my build thread.

I edited the post to say "Post 'em up"...I guess I wasn't too clear about that, but you should post your pics too :naughty: Let's see 'em.

 

[Supraholics]

damn...looks so good. so you gettin it back?

Funny thing is that, I know where the guy lives, I still have his number...and worst yet, after I moved I realized I still have a spare key and the alarm key chain.

ummm, maybe I should call this guy, see how the car is doing???

 

[7MGTESUPRAMAN]

It seems like you had a lot of time spent into that one.

 

[Tanya]

The car I wish I could have held onto longer...

1982 P-type w/ 3.73 LSD
Two Tone Red/Black w/ Black cloth interior (faded to a violet, but the interior was immaculate otherwise)

The car cost me $675, it was in non running condition, but I was sure we'd be able to get her running again. The paint was redone about 3 years prior, as well as the wheels... they were bought NEW from Toyota, car had all receipts on it since the late 1980s.

Never knew why it didn't start. It was in time, it was getting spark, it appeared to have been getting fuel....... we tried everythign we could think of at the time, but still no start. It would run for about 15 seconds and then shut right off. We unbolted the exhaust wondering if maybe the cat was clogged, nope.

One morning we woke up to having been robbed, all our craftsman tools + more was robbed from our other Supra, and we were no longer able to attampt to fix the red car. I stripped some parts off her and sent her away to the junkyard.

Years later, remembering that it could have quite possibly been the AFM, or even a bad fuel pump. It was most likely a simple fix, but the car is long gone now, crushed, at 103,000 miles young :cry:

 

[Supraholics]

ouch!!! That sucks. Nice car too...

 

[Subcept]

Its not a supra, but don't hate on it (title is "car" that got away )

2 years of building and driving this car and I had to sell it due to a accident in my daily that screwed me over financially.

now I got a supra to build up


quick run-down
1984 rabbit GTI sport

2.0 16v engine from a 91 passat, n/a but built to about 180hp

interior gutted with carbon / kevlar: racing seat, rear floor, door cars. '99 jetta dash,

extior 3 1/2" chop, windshield raked 2". sunroof, hatch, handels, sidemarkers, body lines, plate recess all shaved. designed / made my own carbon front facia. 17" rims, lexan windows, custom cut windshield, grey primer waiting for paint.

big brakes, bilstine / h&r suspension

car weighed 1750 w/o me, would run the 1/4 in 13.7 on street tires before it was gutted. never made it back to the track after the chop / diet because I later found out you have to have door handels to run for saftey, so I'd have to make 2 new chopped doors, didn't get to it before I sold it.

lots of kills, including a modded mk3 supra on I-5 north express lanes doing 60-120 pulls :biglaugh:

couple pics:

 

[Supraholics]

A VW?????:runaway: :runaway: Good thing you got rid of it!!!!















J/K :biglaugh: :biglaugh: I had to do it.. Looks like it was coming along pretty nice. Paint, fixup the interior and you have yourself a nice dub...

 

[CFSapper]

I want that reflective vinyl

 

[Subcept]

I want that refective vinal

huh?

 

[CFSapper]

cures my spelling handycap

post edited

 

[Subcept]

I want that refective vinyl

you got one word..

but "refective"? lol :biglaugh:

and what vinyl are you talking about?


btw, download firefox 2.0.. it has auto spell check for everything you type

 

[CFSapper]

:aigo: :1zhelp: man im begining to think im deslexic


go back to the first page and look at the last two pics on his first post.

 

[89supturbo]

you got one word..

but "refective"? lol :biglaugh:

and what vinyl are you talking about?


btw, download firefox 2.0.. it has auto spell check for everything you type

the driver seat in the rabbit