[GmFaux02]

Hello all, I just recently got a MK2 Supra that, well, lets be honest here, Needs ALOT of work! I'm new to the car scene and I've only really driven really rough daily drivers but I decided to get something nicer. At a car meet I met someone who said it would be a good idea to join these forums and so here I am. I got this Supra a few days ago and it drives like a dream! I've never driven anything nicer and honestly its been kicking my ass. But I'm looking for tips and information on this Supra and I feel this is a good place to start my journey to make the ultimate drifting machine! Images of the car attached and thank you in advance!

Walk around of the Supra

http://imgur.com/a/kMIyKsl

 

[tomitoyo]

Congratulations on your purchase, it's a great car, and yours looks very complete, and in original condition I hope you enjoy upgrading and driving it.

 

[GmFaux02]

Congratulations on your purchase, it's a great car, and yours looks very complete, and in original condition I hope you enjoy upgrading and driving it.

Thanks man I really appreciate the warm welcome I will say I’m new to stick and that is one hell of a car to learn it on, these last few days I’ve been driving her she’s been kicking my butt! But I’m getting it down and she’s a lot happier with me now! I hope one day I can be really good at shifting, but I will say I really need to connect with her a lot more.

 

[pdupler]

Welcome aboard.

 

[rhartmaier]

Congratulations and welcome to the forum. The louvers were all the fashion back in the '80's, but are not to my taste. Now you get to decide what to do with them! I would also like to see a set of original wheels, but they can be expensive to have restored. BTW, an '86 P-Type is just an '86. An 86.5 would be a MK III.

Bob

 

[supraz]

Yup, welcome on board. This truly is the place to get information on these cars.

Bob above, is not trying to be condescending in his comment either. You will probably get so many incorrect parts sent to you because of the identification of your particular year! Bob knows his stuff.

This generation of the Supra was in fact a trim option for the Celica. The correct description is a Toyota Celica Supra. With the next generation, it became a Toyota Supra, it's own model. Toyota intended to come out with the next generation (The Mk 3) in the 1986 model year, but they were late introducing it. Therefore they continued selling the Mk 2 into 1986, until the new model became available. Because it was late, the Mk 3 is known as the 1986.5 Supra.

When looking for parts or information on your car, it's probably safest to shop for 1985 model parts. The two years are very similar, and as you will find, looking at parts catalogs, such as www.rockauto.com, the car will be found under Toyota --> 1986 --> Celica --> 2.8L L6. Your car has to be the most confusing to shop for!

Anyways, good to see you on the forum.

Dale

 

[Zoe]

Welcome! Don't be afraid if your car is in need of parts, TLC and whatnot. I got my Lil Blue in less than perfect shape, and just used it as a nice car to drive, enjoy it and improve it when opportunity (== parts), time and budget arrived. A so-called rolling restoration if you so want.

The biggest issue I've had with the MkII Supras, is, that they are addictive. Once hooked, it is hard to leave (kind a Hotel California like)

 

[RedP85]

Welcome!
You sound very enthousiastic, but if you drift it, you will break it. It's probably too nice to be drifted.

 

[GmFaux02]

Congratulations and welcome to the forum. The louvers were all the fashion back in the '80's, but are not to my taste. Now you get to decide what to do with them! I would also like to see a set of original wheels, but they can be expensive to have restored. BTW, an '86 P-Type is just an '86. An 86.5 would be a MK III.

Bob

I get it but I think it was manufactured a few months before the MKIII was released, but thats what a friend of mine said he could be wrong!

 

[GmFaux02]

Welcome! Don't be afraid if your car is in need of parts, TLC and whatnot. I got my Lil Blue in less than perfect shape, and just used it as a nice car to drive, enjoy it and improve it when opportunity (== parts), time and budget arrived. A so-called rolling restoration if you so want.

The biggest issue I've had with the MkII Supras, is, that they are addictive. Once hooked, it is hard to leave (kind a Hotel California like)

I am already addicted lol! But I'm looking forward to getting her in tip top shape, I had a friend help me with the belts today because she was having some Squealing problems!

 

[GmFaux02]

Yup, welcome on board. This truly is the place to get information on these cars.

Bob above, is not trying to be condescending in his comment either. You will probably get so many incorrect parts sent to you because of the identification of your particular year! Bob knows his stuff.

This generation of the Supra was in fact a trim option for the Celica. The correct description is a Toyota Celica Supra. With the next generation, it became a Toyota Supra, it's own model. Toyota intended to come out with the next generation (The Mk 3) in the 1986 model year, but they were late introducing it. Therefore they continued selling the Mk 2 into 1986, until the new model became available. Because it was late, the Mk 3 is known as the 1986.5 Supra.

When looking for parts or information on your car, it's probably safest to shop for 1985 model parts. The two years are very similar, and as you will find, looking at parts catalogs, such as www.rockauto.com, the car will be found under Toyota --> 1986 --> Celica --> 2.8L L6. Your car has to be the most confusing to shop for!

Anyways, good to see you on the forum.

Dale

Thank you so much this is incredibly helpful! like im really new into the car scene and If it wasn't for my friend I would be going in completely blind!

 

[supkar]

Drift car??? Say it ain't so, Joe. That's a pretty good looking car you found. If you keep it original, the value will increase,

 

[4SFED]

I get it but I think it was manufactured a few months before the MKIII was released, but thats what a friend of mine said he could be wrong!

Time to educate your friend.
Welcome to the forum.
I've been selling off some of my Mk2 Supras in recent weeks and lots of parts too as I recently retired and am moving from Wisconsin to New Mexico. I sold my maroon '84, my black '85, my red '85 and red '86 but am going to keep my three white Mk2s.
Anyway, the kid that bought the '86 told me, as I handed him the keys, that it was going to be his 'Drift Missile'. I stopped and I almost gave him his money back and told him no sale when he said that. Almost.

 

[GmFaux02]

Time to educate your friend.
Welcome to the forum.
I've been selling off some of my Mk2 Supras in recent weeks and lots of parts too as I recently retired and am moving from Wisconsin to New Mexico. I sold my maroon '84, my black '85, my red '85 and red '86 but am going to keep my three white Mk2s.
Anyway, the kid that bought the '86 told me, as I handed him the keys, that it was going to be his 'Drift Missile'. I stopped and I almost gave him his money back and told him no sale when he said that. Almost.

I’m not gonna be drifting her, she’s my Cruiser for the summer months and maybe the autumn if it’s nice

 

[rhartmaier]

I'm still trying to figure out how RedP got the idea that you had any intentions of drifting?!

 

[RedP85]

From his own words, first post:

Hello all, I just recently got a MK2 Supra that, well, lets be honest here, Needs ALOT of work! I'm new to the car scene and I've only really driven really rough daily drivers but I decided to get something nicer. At a car meet I met someone who said it would be a good idea to join these forums and so here I am. I got this Supra a few days ago and it drives like a dream! I've never driven anything nicer and honestly its been kicking my ass. But I'm looking for tips and information on this Supra and I feel this is a good place to start my journey to make the ultimate drifting machine! Images of the car attached and thank you in advance!

 

[GmFaux02]

From his own words, first post:

Hah sorry! lol I sorta changed my mind on that sorry

 

[GmFaux02]

From his own words, first post:

I was going to drift it then my friend told me how rare it was with all its options. My apologies

 

[pdupler]

Time to educate your friend.
Welcome to the forum.
I've been selling off some of my Mk2 Supras in recent weeks and lots of parts too as I recently retired and am moving from Wisconsin to New Mexico. I sold my maroon '84, my black '85, my red '85 and red '86 but am going to keep my three white Mk2s.
Anyway, the kid that bought the '86 told me, as I handed him the keys, that it was going to be his 'Drift Missile'. I stopped and I almost gave him his money back and told him no sale when he said that. Almost.

Way back in 1988, I had finished a complete 3-year restoration on a 66 Mustang. A spectator at an MCA show asked me if I'd be interested in selling it. I was still in college so having a second car, a collector car, a garage queen that was way too nice to drive except to a car show really was kind of a dumb thing for a young man in my financially strapped situation. On top of that, my daily driver was fading badly in the Texas sun and so I decided to go ahead and sell the Mustang and put a third of the money towards a paint job on my Capri RS and the rest toward tuition and rent.

I agreed that the man could come the next weekend for a test drive with his son, for whom he would ostensibly be purchasing the car. While the father crawled under the Ford looking for rust, I talked to the son who was only four years younger than me but seemed of a totally different generation (you know how it is when you're that age). It was clear to me from talking with the 16-year old, that a 1966 Mustang was his father's dream car, not his. He would have rather spent the same money on a late model fox body. But the father was apparently using his son's first car as an excuse to buy the kind of car that he wanted when he was a boy. Despite my intuition, we agreed on a cash price and they took it away.

I heard through the the local Mustang club grapevine about two years later that the son had wrapped my Mustang around a tree while trying to show off and one of the members bought it for parts. It was a total loss. After college I bought the first of "the kind of car that I wanted when I was 16" (you guessed it), but still always felt nostalgic for old Mustangs so finally in 2009, I bought a 68 Mustang to fill that void.

To our OP, it may be your Supra now and you can do whatever you want with it, but us old geezers who drooled on the Toyota dealer showroom floors over brand new Supras back in the day, well we just can't help feeling a bit overprotective of it. Don't let us stop you from fulfilling whatever is your dream. We'll get over it..... probably.

 

[GmFaux02]

Way back in 1988, I had finished a complete 3-year restoration on a 66 Mustang. A spectator at an MCA show asked me if I'd be interested in selling it. I was still in college so having a second car, a collector car, a garage queen that was way too nice to drive except to a car show really was kind of a dumb thing for a young man in my financially strapped situation. On top of that, my daily driver was fading badly in the Texas sun and so I decided to go ahead and sell the Mustang and put a third of the money towards a paint job on my Capri RS and the rest toward tuition and rent.

I agreed that the man could come the next weekend for a test drive with his son, for whom he would ostensibly be purchasing the car. While the father crawled under the Ford looking for rust, I talked to the son who was only four years younger than me but seemed of a totally different generation (you know how it is when you're that age). It was clear to me from talking with the 16-year old, that a 1966 Mustang was his father's dream car, not his. He would have rather spent the same money on a late model fox body. But the father was apparently using his son's first car as an excuse to buy the kind of car that he wanted when he was a boy. Despite my intuition, we agreed on a cash price and they took it away.

I heard through the the local Mustang club grapevine about two years later that the son had wrapped my Mustang around a tree while trying to show off and one of the members bought it for parts. It was a total loss. After college I bought the first of "the kind of car that I wanted when I was 16" (you guessed it), but still always felt nostalgic for old Mustangs so finally in 2009, I bought a 68 Mustang to fill that void.

To our OP, it may be your Supra now and you can do whatever you want with it, but us old geezers who drooled on the Toyota dealer showroom floors over brand new Supras back in the day, well we just can't help feeling a bit overprotective of it. Don't let us stop you from fulfilling whatever is your dream. We'll get over it..... probably.

Bro that was beautiful, don’t worry, I’ll treat her right and with the respect a vehicle of her caliber deserves. She is my baby but you can still be here on my journey getting her restored back to her full potential. I will post about it every day and feel free to give me pointers and advice on how to proceed to getting her to the top where she belongs 🖤