Saturday, February 26, 2011

Donor

Today I picked up a second Supra to be used as a parts car. It's a 1987 non-turbo automatic MA70 with a blown motor. The previous owner doesn't know what happened to it, other than telling me that he "turned off overdrive and started to rip it, then the engine started knocking". I'm not overly worried since the drivetrain of the car has nothing to do with what I need the car for anyway. The body is in very good condition, so almost all of the body parts I need will be coming from this car, with the exception of the front bumper and the spoiler, because it is the older style. Some visual things changed in 1989 and newer Supras, so this one still has the older style, which I'm not really into, and I'd like to keep my car looking the way it does as much as possible. Here's a picture of the parts car I took before leaving, I'll be going back to pick it up some time this week and take it to storage with the JZA70.



I had a quick look underneath and some stuff appears to be rusty, which isn't great news for me getting my subframe in good condition, but at the very least I can get all my body parts and the whole interior which I need for insurance purposes. The rest of the parts will be sold off in a part out on a few Supra forums, to try and help out other Supra owners frantically looking for parts like I was before I found this.
That's all I have for today, hopefully I can get this Supra over to storage soon to hang out with the other one, then get them both up to where I'm keeping them and start swapping things over. Oh, and this one's name is Beyonce, since it will be spending all it's time with my JZ. :)

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