How long did it take you to find your supra...
 

I'm asking because im looking for a 89+ supra for a few days now and im having a hard time finding one. I would like to find one that is turbo no or few mods and around $4000. I'm located in boston and I willing to travel around 300 to 500 miles to pick one up. Am I crazy to think i can find one in with these needs?

Thanks

It was a spur of the moment thing. I was actually trying to buy a Maxima. But I couldnt get a hold of the guy so I started looking in the autotrader mag and as a joke i was like, I should just get a supra. That would piss my dad off. So i called him to ask a few questions about it. I went to go look at it and I loved it. While I was looking at it the guy with the Maxima finally returned my call. I was just like, yea I found another car. Got it for $1000, and learned how to drive stick on the way home. It was very fun. Then my parents were wondering how I got home and i told them to look in the driveway and my dad was like WTF is that? It was definitely interesting. Well anyway, thats my story. Did you check autotrader.com? Cars.com? Other sites like that. I just looked and there are 9 MKIII Supras within 300 mi. of zip code 02115 on autotrader.com. Good luck finding one. Post up pics when u get it.

Yes I keep looking on a daily basis the thing is my price point. I need to keep looking...

Total Diamond in the rough
 

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.

Monkey balls!
 

Mine, my friends dad had for years. Never thought much of it, Yah cool a supra. And then he was like joking around saying i should buy it. So i started researching. He only wanted 800 for it. And i saw, 205 hp, not bad. I read about headgasket problems, all that fun stuff, figured it would be easy to fix. And then he let me drive it. That was the bait. I so wanted the car after that. So i saved up for a few weeks, and blam it was mine. And ive been driving it for 8 months now. lol. Its been my favorite car. And now im selling it in favor of an 89 turbo :( ill miss her!

with mine...i was working at this car shop and i had just slod my rx7 and was looking for a new car.very next day a guy drives up with a supra for sale, and he was just getting the clutch replaced. talked him down to 1500 and the rest is history

at first i was lookin for preludes (i kno i kno...what the hell was i thinking??) on autotrader and just for fun started looking at mkiv supras, but the mkiii supra is what got me interested. i found a really nice one that i liked and it had everything (the sports package) and was mint for 4500 with 110000 some miles. the thing is that the previous owner (dentist) had the motor rebuilt at 100000 miles and didnt even mention it when he was selling it. you can tell money isnt a problem for this guy. how we found out is we went to the local toyota dealership and picked up 2 spare tires and when they were lookin up my car in the computer they told us that it had the motor redone.

the end


so i dont jack the thread up i guess it took me one lucky look at autotrader.com to find my supra.

I found mine online knowing that it didnt run. It was just on a local forum and later had trouble getting the title but it all worked out in the end.

If you are willing to drive down to lexington, Ky there is a dealer here called Greens Toyota that has an 89 NA in perfect condition. When i say perfect i mean it has no problems mechanicly (sp), the body is in perfect shape, interior looks like new. This one has had one owner and no mods to it. It was a trade in that someone had and it has, if i remember right 53XXX miles on it. It is a very nice MKIII.

Dont worry about sellin it. You are getting a better car. I like my daily driver. But I'm trying to make a deal with someone near me to trade him my Tiburon and $8K for his 1995 R32 Skyline. Hopefully he'll take. Anyone know about insurance on a Skyline? Lol.

I got mine after my girl bought it for her son then he ran into a bench and he didnt have his license so I told her I would trade her my truck for it. And she said hell ya. But I have to fix the head gasket and replace some stuff. I have yet to drive it.....

My supra was easy to find. My cousin actually had bought it. I first saw it when i was 15 covered in snow. i cleared most of the snow off and fell in love with it right away especially after i sat in the driver seat its like a lazyboy!!!! After years of him trying to convince me not to buy it cause he lost the title and never got it transfered in his name i called the dmv and they rushed me a title in my name!! after that i bought it and havent had ne regrets yet.

Took me about 3 weeks to decide on mine. I had driven my 73 Celica for 14 years, and I decided after a 1800mile trip from NM to OR, that I wanted to get something more modern. I sold the Celica (got $2300 for her, and it was worth every penny). I started looking for new cars at that point. I had a short list of Supra, 3000GT, and Grand Prix GTP.

After another week of searching I was finding that I could get the Supra for less money than the other two, and I am just a Toyota fan, so I made the Supra my car of choice. I only wanted white, had to be Targa, and I preferred non-turbo.
Found an 86.5 on craigslist in Eugene (45miles south of me) and got the guy to send some extra pics of it. I decided to drive down and look at it. The guy was commuting from Roseburg to Eugene every day in it (about 100 miles round trip) so I knew the car had to be road worthy. There were a few things I would have preferred not to have to fix, (like a cracked windshield and it needed tires badly), but overall it was a solid car. the guy was asking $2400 and I offered him $2000 right on the spot.

I had to borrow my sister to get it home, but its been something of an obsession ever since.

Audi, have you found one yet? If you haven't and don't mind a little work I stumbled upon one hell of a deal. Go to google and type in "first who see's it will buy". If I lived closer, I would be all over this.

See my next post for the link. (below the next 2)

I did that and couldnt find any supra...just give us the link to it...hehe

Link better...ug ug
 

I agree...links are always better...because just if it was there one day, doesn't mean it will still be there even an hour later.

link
 

links are better, I just remembered what the guy put and figured it would take you right to it, with Firefox and google it does, but anyway here is the link

http://providence.craigslist.org/car/170037168.html

In my case, I was out with my kids and wife having dinner at pizza hut, since we were waiting for the chow, I decided to pick up the "thrifty nickel/penny pincher" and as usual turned in to the cars clasified and ran in to a the ad that read " 1987 toyota supra turbo for sale "
needs engine work, $500
the funny thing was that I wasn't even looking in to buying a car since I was still working on my nissan mini....see picture..

right after dinner we took of to see the supra, and to my surprise the car had a set of decent wheels and tires, the body was in very good shape exept for the paint that somebody tryed to spray and turned out to start peeling.
the owner told me that one day he was driving the car and the engine started knocking and imediatelly he turned it off...such a lye....he was claiming that the engine would turned and that at no point in time it had seized, he even tried to help start the engine by jumping the battery but it never turned, i thought it would also be a stuck starter. anyways I took the car home knowing that I would have to rebuild the engine or buy a JDM.

four months past and the warmth of the spring time sun came before I laid a single finger on the car, after pulling the engine out I found out what was the cause of the knock the previous owner was talking about. A huge crater under the intake manifold

anyways, I see it this way.........I bought a set of rims for $500 dollars and I got a supra turbo with it.

I that was near me I would buy em just to part em out!.

you guys are lucky..To tell you the truth I have been looking for a supra for about 1 year now and i finally found one. Thanx to a long time family friend. But I looked for my supra on autotrader.com and cars.com (i dont really trust cars.com tho) its a nice clean car just the fact thats its a auto kills it buh hey its a I6 turbo thats is really clean with only 27kmiles (secondary car)

ok well my deal beats all of urs :). i was looking for a new car after sellin my 85 rx7 and my 89 porsche 944. i drove both illegally w no license. i was 15. lol. i had about 3500 saved up and was looking for a stang. i still love my bortheres 5.0 gt. well i was lookign thru a random magazine. i live in salem btw only 40 mins from u. and as i looked thru this mag i saw an 88 supra with 80,000 miles. nothin other than that on the desrip. i called the guy to see it. i find out its a trubo all orignial all stock. thing was a beaut. had 1 rust hole in the fender...cancer cancer cancer. so i mentioned this to the guy. well long story short. i payed 3200 for an 88 supra turbo targa 5 speed. :). payed 20$ and replaced the fender myself. i lvoe working on this baby. they r sooo much fun.

it took me a while to save up and then decide to by a supra. I started mowing lawns then worked at a car wash and now i work at a restraunt. i saved everypenny and finally i decided i wanted a mkiii. it took me like 2 months to find it but it was all worth it.

Ran for 11 months and 194k miles under my ownership before i sold it(got it at 182k)!