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Had an 'interesting' chat about the Supra with random old bloke.


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I had the same last night... but just loving the car..

 

I was outside cleaning the engine bay (just on the off chance that someone wants to see what a stock N/A looks like at JAE :blink: ) and I then felt the presence of someone over my shoulder. An old fella from up the road just staring at the engine.

 

After I'd jumped he said 'they don't make them like that anymore'.. and then went into one about how he's always wanted a Supra and he'd ended up with a Hyundai Coupe... was really nice and said every time he walked past the car he thought to himself, 'now that's a real car, a real mans car'... slightly unnerved by this point I quickly moved him on... nice though.. you don't always get random people talking to you in the street down here... Supra love in our road... :)

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While I was down south, visiting my family (yes, I had a lovely time, thank you for asking) I had a few hours to kill. Decided I'd park in the centre of Worthing and run to Smiths for a copy of Japanese Performance. Parked in a pay and display place, went to buy a 30 minute ticket and came back to see an oldish looking guy admiring my car.

 

As I went to put the ticket in the window he asked if it was mine etc and went on to tell me the history of Toyota (which I'm about to check) and the origins of the Supra (ditto). He seemed to know his stuff and talked at length about it all. It was all very interesting and I didn't mind that he was taking up my 30 minutes of parking.

 

But then he started to lose the plot. Apparently he had a friend in the US (don't we all? :rolleyes:) who bought three mkivs (red, black and silver in case you feel like asking) back in '93. Traded in a 911 for them, don't ya know.

 

Anway, this friend waited until '03 and until this old guy was over there before deciding to find out what the car could really do.

 

So, they went into the guys garage and the old guy (who had now used up twenty minutes of my ticket) said all they needed to do was re-bore the engine! So they did, and the next day took one of the Supes to Black Rock, Nevada (drag strip? flat? I have no idea) and under the old guys instruction the American guy built the revs up at a stanstill, very gently and when it redlined, he droped the clutch.

 

Now, what follows is me realising that the one golden rule in life that you should never forget is 'Don't talk to old people or strangers. Old strangers even moreso.'

 

So, the car starts moving an Old Guy says "Guess how fast it reached 60".

 

I said " I dunno, four seconds?"

 

He said "well, you don't have to believe me" (I'm thinking 'I don't think I'm going to be') and he continued "...two seconds!

 

I go "Wow!" and I'm thinking 22 minutes gone.

 

I got the time to 100 wrong as well. Five and a half seconds. *cough* 23 minutes.

 

Then he said "..and what speed do you think it reached?" I didn't care so replied "240-250mph?".

 

He laughed at me! 24 minutes.....

 

No, the top speed, after telling me that he had no reason to lie to me was 330 mph. Nearly 25 f*cking minutes I stood there, politely nodding my head and he lies to me. I wanted to tear his story to shreds but I had just over five minutes to get to the shop so I just told him that was amazing but I really had to go.

 

"Before you go" he said "change your wheels. If you want to have a truly fast and well handling car you need 16's on the front and 19's on the back"

 

I nearly punched the old bastard. However, I did manage to get to the shop and back before my time ran out.:blink:

 

 

the lady who just parked up in her golf felt sorry for you ;)

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The car park is by the side of TK Max. Hmm.

 

Black golf was it? Tanned lass with dark hair?

 

 

no silver golf, not tanned, light hair :p

 

 

i read this thread earlier, then we popped roung my girlfriends aunties place.

she said she saw a supra in town and some old bloke boring the owner to death :D

 

then the pennie dropped

 

 

you're not allowed in worthing [welsh] i'm the only red soop in the village [/welsh] ;)

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about how he's always wanted a Supra and he'd ended up with a Hyundai Coupe...

 

 

how the hell does that happen? Its like going to get a space travel ticket (from smiths) and comming back with a 3-day bus pass :rlol:

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no silver golf, not tanned, light hair :p

 

 

i read this thread earlier, then we popped roung my girlfriends aunties place.

she said she saw a supra in town and some old bloke boring the owner to death :D

 

then the pennie dropped

 

 

you're not allowed in worthing [welsh] i'm the only red soop in the village [/welsh] ;)

 

Didn't see her then. The lass I saw looked like she was going to park right next to me despite the 20 empty bays around the car but carried on and parked elsewhere.

 

As for the red Supra thing, I'm 260 miles away now. Worthing is yours, my red friend. ;)

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