Hi Toyota fans: I'm looking for a 1981 Toyota Supra (5-ME) with automatic transmission, with a good body, good powertrain and good everything else. (in other words I don't want a crap junker). My current 81 Supra (the second one I've owned) is close to death (body cancer and oil guzzling) and I would very much like to have another 'cause I love this car. Supra fans can relate to this, I'm sure. I live in Canada, Southern Ontario, just west of Toronto in Whitby. e-mail me at snipped-for-privacy@sympatico.ca (remove the 666 to reply)
Wanted: a 1981 Supra in good condition.
Dec 23, 2005
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If you want one without body cancer, you'll have to go shopping way far south. Like 'South of the Mason-Dixon line' south. South far enough to where snow and road salt are only a rumor.
Problem being that a 25 year old Supra that is still in drivable shape is very likely to have a whole lot of miles on it (150,000 plus) just not a rotten body. Buying a 25-YO car like this would make sense if your car has a rotten body but a good powertrain that you could yank out and reuse in another car - but you admit it yourself that your old engine is 'guzzling oil'. So where's the advantage?
Then you have to pay off the Customs folks to get it into Canada.
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Bruce L. Bergman wrote in news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com:
shopping way
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Canada.
Thanks for your feedback, Bruce. Main problem about getting it back to Canada is the logistics of transport. Thanks again.
Yeah. Things have eased up a bit since NAFTA; but the big problem was the TAX! Whooo-Weeee!
It was always much easier to get a Canadian model into the US. My '88 Supra came from a dealer in Toronto.
BTW, I have been to Whitby a couple times in the late 80's. I like it up there!
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