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Street Sighting ~ Toyota Supra

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The new kid on the block. Recently I spotted this mark4 Supra parked around the corner from my parents house. I intended to blog it but just got too busy. It's now a few ( three or four ) weeks later and I've seen the car change sides of the street a few times. Safe to say its the new kid on the block. If you're reading this blog I'm assuming your car culture acumen is up to scratch & for the most part this Supra really doesn't do much for you. So just relax hero. Yeah it's massive, overpriced, this ones auto and probably NA but honestly who gives a fuck. The car doesn't look like a Toyota . And yet it at the same time doesn't look like anything else. So why do I give it a pass? Well I think the potential of Supra remains untapped. There are three ways to go about ownership. Option 1  80sHERO - click the image to read a better blog post.  Option 2  It's a Toyota, and therefore reliable. Give the car a decent sound setup and try get it to a bi...

Silvia sitch in Oz

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  So before I go off on a tangent let me outline the point of this write up. The Nissan Silvia is very obviously one of the most iconic coupes ever made. Yet somehow the first iteration ( not counting the gazelle ) was not sold in Australia. This means every S13 Silvia in Aus was imported from Japan. Don't get me wrong we actually imported a fair few but they were destined for tuner/drift or motorsport applications. As a result finding a fairly mint S13 in Aus is pretty tricky. The S14 was sold in Aus but in low numbers, and considering the desirability of these, like the S13 chances of seeing one stock is also low. Despite this I still try to seek them out. Like this one I saw HERE The owner bought this car new, changed nothing and has only put a bit over a hundred thousand kilometres on it. It is essentially a survivor car. But this story doesn't really take place for an S13, as after all they had a life in Japan. At seven am over the Easter weekend my mate sent me a Gum...