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10-13-01... Replaced Old Poll With New
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9-09-01... Added bov descriptions.
8-20-01... Added
poll at bottom.
7-28-01... Moved old
page, got supra, wrote more stuff.
5-16-01... Added border for easier reading, counter and
update section
4-16-01... Created first Supra page.
Hey, yo, I just got my supra. Be back with more info on it later. For
now, you can check out my old musings about it here.
You hear me? I finally got my birthday present. Granted my birthday was a
month and some days ago, and I've been asking for a Supra
since last summer, but there it go, right in my backyard, a 1988 MK3 Supra
Turbo bought for $3,200, down from the suggested retail value of $4,000.
Here are some things it has from what I see:
- 8 way adjustable drivers seat
- Red leather and vinyl interior
- TEMS system,to adjust from street to race settings
- On board trip computer
- Targa top
- Turbo
- Newly painted pearl white exterior
- Radio with casette player.
- Automatic transmission with overdrive and another button for "powerful
accelearion"
It has everything I wrote about that I wanted in a Supra. White, targa,
turbo and automatic. It even has the stock rims which is cool, though not
the 5 star rims I was hoping for, but it is truly all good. It sort of
resembles the 1/24 scale model in front of my computer. Same kind of tail
lights and tires. Except the toy model is right hand drive and isn't
painted. But it's ok, it will be. I always hoped it'd resemble my idea of
what my future commuter/race car would look like, and there it is just
sitting in my backyard. It's sort of like it was written.
How it was written.
The first car I ever used
exclusively in "Gran Turismo" was a white 93 Toyota Supra. The reason I used
this car instead of a Civic was that I tried the Civic and was losing every
race with it. Then I tried the Supra and was like, "Pretty damn sweet like
caramel, good handling and powerful acceleration." This was during the time
I didn't know anything about cars, so I had no idea that the Supras on the
street resembled the ones I was playing in this game. Then when I got "Gran
Turismo 2", I already knew what car to get and got a white one instead of
red or black they also had because that was the color of my first Supra and I wanted to recall some of that past fame. The Supra was also cheap and I had faith in
winning races with it, sort of like the real life counterpart.
During the summer of 2000, I was about to go to college and still had no
idea how I'd get there. So me, Daniel and Henry started throwing ideas
around for cars costing less than $5,000 but could be made into super quick
cars. Our minds came up with rx7 fc, crx si and Supra turbo. From that time
on, I knew what car I wanted.
I believed that I could convince my parents into getting me one. So I
read all the Mk3 supra sites I could, read my old Motor Trend and Car and
Driver magazines. My parents only saw me playing with the Supra in GT2.
Sometimes I'd play with the Spoon Civic or Sil-Eighty
to throw them off the track that the Mk3 was all I was thinking of. I even
bought a scale model Supra from ebay for $30. I was enthusiastic in my
telling of the wonderful virtues of the Supra when talk was about what car
to get me to replace the Jeep. I told everyone I really wanted to get a
Supra the way little kids talk about one day becoming the president. It was
something that I set my heart on and would be utterly disappointed if I didn't
achieve my goal.
One of my brothers overheard my mom talking about the Supra I was gonna
see at Richmond for $5,500 and then asked me what kind of Supra did I want.
It turned out his friend, Trung's uncle, was selling his for $4,000. He then
proceeded to tell me that the car I was going to see the next day was too
expensive. "$4,000, maybe. $3000, think about it... only spend $2,000 for
that piece of crap." Or something to that effect he told me. Later that
night, me and another brother went there to go check it out. It was
pretty cool. The next day, seeing the red Supra compared to last night's
pearl white MK3 left me feeling disapointed with the red car. Like not
hitting the nail completely with a hammer. I asked yet another brother to go
check out the white one I first sat in to see what he thought about it.
Three days passed. Then my brother was pissed at me for not giving a "yes or no" for the
car, because he says that the dude was sort of holding onto it for me. And with each passing day that he doesn't get an answer, he was
losing his integrity in front. Finally saw the car again on a wednesday. Came
home, my brother was like, "$3,200 for such an old car, we can do it." In
chinese of course. The next day, told Eric it was all good and we'd like to
buy it. A weekend passes. Then on, (mark this down, you like marking things
down) wedneday 7-25-01, checked out the car one more
time and brought it home safely.
Fears
Sometimes I get really scared. That the
things I hold dear and really like will someday go away from me. That has
happned on occasion when I thought we were going fine only to realize she
was not feeling the same vibes as me. Well, this time I don't care, because
I finally got the car I sought after for a year and more. Plus I'm always
pretty bad in making decisions, so I was afraid I might have overlooked some
major flaw that was present but I chose not to accept. For instance, it wasn't until a month later until I realized that the front left windshield wiper was covered in spider webs, along with the back rear bumper. It was like that moment in "Crime and Punnishment" when the lead character notices that everything has gone so smoothly that he knew he was missing out on something big, and wouldn't you know it, he overlooked his bloodsplattered clothes from the murder.
From the time that my brother told me that we was gonna get it to the
time I actually got it, I was scared. I was scared that something might
happen to it on the way to get it smogged. Or on the way home someone will
hit it. Because innocent people get hurt all the time by drunks and
inattentive people behind the wheel. Plus he always parks it on the street
so I was fearful of a break in or something. I'm glad I got this car instead
of the other Supra I saw.
The other supra I saw.
When you're out
dating, you don't go for a boyfriend/girlfriend relationship with the first
pretty girl you see. You actually do research and shop around to see who
else is biting and wanting to jump on it. The second Supra me and my brother
went to see was this red number:
1990 non turbo, stick, stock rims. which I was like cool because
it had the accessories I was thinking of adding like, Apex exhaust, leather
seats, TRD seatbelt pads, lowered with Eibach springs, and a HKS intake. but
it also had the biggest ugliest spoiler I've ever seen. The former owner
took the 93-98 supra stock spoiler and put it on the back of this Supra. It
does not match like a blind person watching a porno. Just like that, it
didn't make sense, but my brother reassured me it can be taken off.
It also had a lot of stickers. Like "TRD", "Powered By Toyota" and
"Supra" written in cursive which would have been a pain to remove. Riding in
it, I couldn't ignore the fact that that thing was slow. I thought I'd be
cool in a non turbo, but damn that piece of fudge was slow. It was better
than my Jeep, but marginally better than the Civic. Sort of like Wei Cong's
95 240sx. I thought those power adders would make a difference, but it
didn't. Makes me curious how slow it'd be without those accessories. Maybe
the spoiler really did slow us down that much. Either ways, I think I would
have kept the spoiler on for a week to see what kind of reaction I get out
of people. I would have gotten to work on that thing, taking off that
"Special Edition" emblem where the turbo emblem would be. I mean, beach
please, makes as much sense as that other MK3 supra I once saw that said
"SR5" on it. It also had what appears to be a failed attempt to put a Toyota
emblem on the front end.
Like my brother said, "$5,500 for that salvaged piece of crap. Funny....
"
It's an honor just being nominated
Here's a
list of other cars my brothers were thinking about getting for me, but I
wouldn't really go for. This is listed in order of which is they felt would
better suit my needs than the Supra. Keep in mind the origninally suggested
cars were to be Japanese, sporty, non turbo and be at or less than $6,000.
Oddly enough, my brothers never once suggested a Celica,
3000gt,
Accord or a 240sx
to get.
So now what?
My brother tells me not to fix it
up. Turns out a lot of people would like to mess with this car and if I
don't make it stand out, I won't be a victim. Which sort of makes sense and
doesn't at the same time. But so far I did "install" some red Greddy
shoulder pads. Those get 40 more horses in my mind. The alignment is off, it
steers to the right, it's pretty damn quiet for an old school car though, it
needs new tires, the back
tint needs to go, it only has a tape player and there are no cupholders.
What the hell, my jeep had a cup holder. But it's ok. I'm not really
tripping off that minor detail.
I'm a miata
killer, mr2's
die too, look out civic,
better hide when I find you.
Honesty Counter was at 449
For a look at my future mods for the car, click
here
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For reference to the poll that used to be above:
The HKS Blow Off Vavle sounds like the one used in the White AE86
Levin in Initial D Second Stage. This bov sounds like a knife cutting
through air. Or a scene in those Anime cartoons where two samurais run at each other
with some long ass swords, and all you hear is the sound of the swords
unsheathing and leaves blowing. Yeah, it's like that.
The Greddy Blow Off Vavle sounds like the one equiped in the the Akina Speed Stars S13 in Initial
D, actually all the other cars sound like they have the Greddy Kit. Is it
because it's cheaper than the others?. The sound this one emits doesn't
sound threatening, like a pet goldfish. The sound is comparable to a bird chirping or the sound when you open the top on a can of soda. I also believe it's used in the
"Akina Speed Stars" 180. This and the HKS bov are the ones most seen in cars
either at the shows or in the magazines
The Blitz Blow off Valve sounds like the one in the Black R32
from Initial D, I think. Also the White FC sounds like it has it too. This bov is marketed to be the most agrresive
sounding and looking in the market. Like someone with a cold telling you to
"Hush". If I wanted to sound like the blow off valve from those big rigs or buses, I would get this. Also those big rigs equipped with hydraulic brakes sound like this. Whenever a big rig slowing down before running over your lawn mower, listen for that hissing sound from it's brakes and you'll hear a fair represenation of the Blitz bov at work. Whether this bov helps or causes the R32 to lose every race we see it in
is in question. I'm just kidding yaw. I don't base everything I know about
real life from what I see in cartoons. Some, not everything.
The Apex Blow off Valve sounds like the one in the Purple
Sil-Eighty but more drawn out. The "whooosh" sound is held out longer for acoustical tenacity. The sound is like hella
air gushing out at once. Other Supra sites have called this sound lame and
credits that to it's unpopularity. It doesn't sound like a fart kind of air
rushing out. It's like if you have a garden hose and instead of water coming
out, it's just air spouting off.
SES is this Korean singing group that is very popular because
they can sing and are very cute. Even though Eugene is the cutest girl in
the Kpop scene there are rumors that she's a slut, not that there's anything
wrong with that. The lead singer Sea isn't that cute from her pictures, but
just knowing she can sing that good makes her seem more attractive. Shoo is
the middlechild of this, not really jocked because she's always second place
in singing ability and beauty to the others. Unless it's a Japanese speaking
contest, then she beats them both. 
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