Went to our marina yesterday to take the boat out for a jaunt, as the season winds down. These two derelicts have been sitting there for a few years with no movement. 3-4 license plates stacked up on each. One owner, manual transmissions. Both have ~60k miles.
They catch my eye every weekend. Finally found an old timer that knew 'a little' about them. Apparently they belong to an older lady that lives in a houseboat at the marina.
The Tercel SR4 4x4 is a 6-spd ca 1984. The Supra is a 86.5 or 87 Turbo 5 spd.
Hate to see them waste, so I figure I'd post them here amongst other people that may appreciate derelicts.
Mr_Asa
SuperDork
10/9/20 3:30 p.m.
Why would she just stack the license plates up on them? What a strange way to do it
I heart 3rd gen Supra's. Way cool cars with an awesome competition heritage. So much cooler than flying dildo 4th gen ugly crap that people get so worked up over.
I love 3rd gen supra but not the one you posted. 91-92 only.
I had that exact Tercel wagon whcih we replaced with a pretty rare corolla all trac wagon
if you get that woman to sell here - be happy to give you nice finders fee
one of my neighbors (80 years old), is like that , has exact Tercel wagon, turbo 4 runner convertible, and a 22re pickup. She won't sell any of them
Why would you stack license plates?
Tk8398
Reader
10/10/20 12:08 a.m.
I almost never see 3rd gen supras anymore, aren't the engines pretty bad? They are apparently popular demolition derby cars in england for some reason too.
Tk8398 said:
I almost never see 3rd gen supras anymore, aren't the engines pretty bad? They are apparently popular demolition derby cars in england for some reason too.
Once you fix the head gasket issue, they are fine
That Tercel wagon.... AWD AllTrac. So cool ;)
I'd be interested in the Tercel wagon if you are pursuing these. They are just so weird.
Personally i would only stack license plates if i had already built an ejection system so that i could dump plates while on the run. They'd all have to be different plates not tied to my name, of course. I probably would have already had to do this by now if i hadn't stopped using Facebook about this time 4 years ago... 
Vigo (Forum Supporter) said:
Personally i would only stack license plates if i had already built an ejection system so that i could dump plates while on the run. They'd all have to be different plates not tied to my name, of course. I probably would have already had to do this by now if i hadn't stopped using Facebook about this time 4 years ago...
I'm picturing a dispensing screw system kind of like the one that drops your bag of chips in the vending machine.
I'd love to have the Turbo Supra.
I'm just basically quoting Adrian now but... the 3rd Gen Supra is absolutely superior to the 4th gen. Gen4 Poopras are meme machines now; they're overpriced family coupes underneath, built initially to be just be exceptional touring cars and nice drivers; but 3rd gens structurally are like evolved muscle cars sharing parts and solid axles from a variety of Toyotas. You can swap rear ends and shocks from RAV4s up to the early 2000s, meaning making a 3rd Gen have limited slip is a junkyard bill away and any "upgrade" to the suspension is typically cheap even to Toyota standards. Even the engine- the M series- has only one real true flaw that doomed it all because of a misprint in the FSM. Once you learn that, it's a cheap-ass I6 people practically give away that is impressively simple for the era. You get dual cams and fuel injection, but also a basic distributor and an "ECU" that's little more than a Colecovision doing basic math. Heck, Toyota used it's bell housing for YEARS and I think the AR5 bolts right up, so you don't have to deal with the truck-like W58.
... damnit now I'm looking for one again. This is all your fault.
In reply to Vigo (Forum Supporter) :
no crimes happening here officer :) Please ignore my open headers currently playing hot for teacher using exhaust pulses
In reply to GIRTHQUAKE :
The Flying Spaghetti Monster cursed the Supra? Now I really don't want a Japanese Buick.
GIRTHQUAKE said:
I'm just basically quoting Adrian now but... the 3rd Gen Supra is absolutely superior to the 4th gen. Gen4 Poopras are meme machines now; they're overpriced family coupes underneath, built initially to be just be exceptional touring cars and nice drivers; but 3rd gens structurally are like evolved muscle cars sharing parts and solid axles from a variety of Toyotas. You can swap rear ends and shocks from RAV4s up to the early 2000s, meaning making a 3rd Gen have limited slip is a junkyard bill away and any "upgrade" to the suspension is typically cheap even to Toyota standards. Even the engine- the M series- has only one real true flaw that doomed it all because of a misprint in the FSM. Once you learn that, it's a cheap-ass I6 people practically give away that is impressively simple for the era. You get dual cams and fuel injection, but also a basic distributor and an "ECU" that's little more than a Colecovision doing basic math. Heck, Toyota used it's bell housing for YEARS and I think the AR5 bolts right up, so you don't have to deal with the truck-like W58.
... damnit now I'm looking for one again. This is all your fault.
In reply to Vigo (Forum Supporter) :
no crimes happening here officer :) Please ignore my open headers currently playing hot for teacher using exhaust pulses
https://losangeles.craigslist.org/lgb/cto/d/long-beach-1989-toyota-supra-targa-top/7203724632.html
The old timer I ran into is about 75 and it was late in the day...he was a little tipsy on his golf cart and I get the impression that is about every day for him.
He said something to the effect of, "she wants $6 thousand."
I said, "each or for the pair?"
I think he meant each. I'll keep bumping this as I find out more.
