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If I wanted a BMW M3 engine, I'd buy a BMW M3 to go with it.

Resurrecting an old post with a comprehensive list available. Love the prices! supra parts.pdf

You cannot get the internal trim any longer other than from a donor vehicle so cut interior panels to accommodate a cross member is likely to present a problem for anyone seeking out a stock car. Your car actually has quite a lot inside the cabin that isn't stock which is unfortunate as that is increasingly where the market is focused and heading. If you can restore the car with OE parts from a breaker then that will only help you to achieve something like the sales price you are looking at and sooner. I trawled the Japanese dealer prices this weekend and the prices are rising strongly monthly at the moment. A stock 120,000km TT6 is being offered up for export at US$30k. Your pricing for a stock car is ahead of the market today, here in the UK anyway, but probably not too far ahead in time frame if you were to revert it closer to stock. That steering wheel doesn't look an upgrade to me.

I have only bought classic cars on the basis of parts availability so have sitting in my garage or barn a MGB roadster, A series Land Lover and a vintage Ford Mustang. There is only one part you cannot buy today for the MGB (heater controllers), you can buy everything for the Land Rover and you can buy lots more parts for the Mustang than were ever factory original. It's simple to come up with a reason why these cars survive with pattern parts suppliers and that's over 10,500,000 of these cars were built and lots are still running around. Small volume production cars have no hope of building a strong aftermarket parts industry. It's only ever going to be specialist recycling centres and bespoke solutions for the Supra Mkiv turning it increasingly towards a garage bound curio. Toyota is a volume car company that sells largely metal boxes to the masses, the chances of them catering to a tiny niche is absolutely zero. Unless owners want to keep their cars forever, really they should be selling while the market is good. Classic cars are an era thing, and their appeal (and with it the cars value) is expected to die out as the old petrol heads die out. Todays kids will only know electric and petrol cars will be smelly museum pieces, the mechanics of the future will be armed largely with screwdrivers.

You'd probably be better comparing pricing to other RHD markets like UK, Japan and Australia than the LHD Euro or USA. Though the Swedes in particular do seem to like their RHD Supras and have a stable Euro exchange rate (making it more affordable) so that could be a good market to target being an easy drive from Denmark these days. Good luck with it.

Ad reads very third party, reads like you have just acquired the car and you are probably a trader? Whichever, its a big ticket price for no mention of mileage, you are right in the lets import a low km car from Japan to the UK for that price so, for a silver, it'd need to be very special. Japanese limiters are set to 112mph rather than 70mph which is plenty for UK roads. I was anxious my jspec had not been 'corrected' when I first took it to Germany but thankfully it had. Is that a Celica or MR2 steering wheel?

There is a pair of speaker covers for sale on eBay, or at least there was yesterday from the breaker boys.

You can get a TT6 for £18k but it'll be a high miler by Supra standards or not in the best of shape and if you were looking at a fresh import from Japan you'd now be be North of £25k. If you want a clean tidy TT example then £18k would certainly get you a very nice auto, possible even a UK auto. Compared to an Evo a Supra needs less and less expensive servicing, a Supra is pretty much bullet proof as well if its been maintained through its life. Have a read of the Crossy wanted thread in the classifieds. Most wanted threads go ignored but he must have gone about it the right way and had lots of help from members and finally landed a members car that was never advertised for sale. If you want a good car with documented history on the forum then there is no better way to go about it.

You just want to sit a bathtub in that engine bay otherwise, when would you get to admire it?

Checked recent Japanese parts auctions and the last one I found that sold, in December, went for Y5,000. That's about £32 so may be worth looking over there.

An auto conversion with lots of 'top secret' styling plastic - another show car for £30k. Not many Supras make £30k in the UK.

Has anyone who didn't want to repair the mechanism tried fitting a US or Euro passenger seat instead?

Look forward to receiving them!

There is a painted red facia set on eBay at the moment. You could repaint that and probably sell your stock items for much more. The eBay set are from a RHD auto.

Just post up a detailed wanted and you will probably find people approach you with cars not on the market if the budget is high enough to gain their interest. The red NA manual on on eBay looks decent on the surface, auction at £7k last I saw.

I used to use their hycote Audi brilliant black and that was spot on, over two cans ordered years apart as well which was impressive.

£1.500 for a high powered car at 24 doesn't sound that bad. My daughter pays £650 for her Astra. Don't worry, if you are fortunate you'll get old and the premiums will stay the same (my premiums were the same in £'s 40 years ago that they are today) and when you get to be old you can put yourself through a voluntary retest because its the right thing to do.

Reading this thread it seems everyone prefers what they actually have which is fantastic. I wouldn't know what its like to drive a Supra auto but from all the auto cars I have owned or driven I don't feel I'm missing something in my life.

A normal, real OEM, badge is metal, I believe the genie bloke is turning out plastic.

I have just purchased a 93 - 97 Corolla gold badge from the USA that looks to be the same size as the Supra front emblem. Will report back when it come in.

My daughter insisted I took her to her prom 3 years ago in the Supra, with friends. Giggling girls and crushed up prom dresses in the back - something else. Got all the boys gawping though and thats probably what they were after.

I always wished I'd painted the floor of my garage but on a new build there was so much more to be getting on with getting the first floor ready for occupation and the outside walls painted. You say that painting walls is a pain and that it needs regular attention but in a garage with block walling its a doddle if you have an air compressor and spray gun. You could emulsion spray paint it all in no time. Just have Grace follow you around with a brush to catch any runs as they develop. You don't need a silk sheen perfect after all, in a garage.

Any overseas buyer would arrange the shipping anyway and all they need is the V5 and a receipt for the car so you wouldn't need to be involved unless you agreed to drop the car off at the port or with the shipping agent.

Have you asked Whifbitz if they would restock this less a small handling fee?

Worth noting if it is the rubbers and you replace them then the bottom rubbers just unbolt easily but the side rubbers have araldite from the factory so you need to tear the old rubbers off and blow torch the bolts to melt the araldite to get those out. Its usually the side rubbers that lead to the annoying tailgate rattle. Some rubber sets are on sale on eBay at around the £60. You can get them cheaper elsewhere but not always a off the shelf item. Probably because I just bought a load of sets.