I decided to make this thread here (I posted last year about this purchase on the typical ae86 club sites) because of Dave-ROR's recent acquisition of a rare breed amongst the remaining SW20 turbos. Check it out here!
http://www.ft86club.com/forums/showthread.php?t=90089 quite the score! Though the blue interior is 'ugly' apparently (I like it!).
Anyways, back in March '14 an old redneck lady decided to pull out RIGHT as I was coming down the road, leaving me little choice but to hit her. Had I veered right, I would've completely destroyed the car by t-boning into the Expedition. Had I veered further to the left, I would've nose dived into a median that probably wouldn't have made the situation much better (and injured me more than likely).
Car is obviously out of commission but repairable; so she now sits in my garage awaiting that fateful day.
About a week after (a long dispute with the insurance company) getting my settlement check I finally found myself going in the same direction of a particular AE86 I had seen in the past only in passing and for brief moments. I had seen this car 3 times since moving to where I was, and could only tell it was "pretty clean". It was more than that. It was easily the cleanest all factory AE86 I had ever seen in person. And it was the original owner driving it as well! I was lucky that he and his wife were actually planning on selling it, so a few weeks later this is what I got:
Ugly blue interior? I wish! I wish it was blue! But Toyota didn't offer the blue in '87 on the white coupes. Nope. Behold: (RON) Burgundy!
Ok, so its an original owner '87 SR-5 coupe with 88k miles upon my purchase. Unfortunately its not a GT-S, but honestly, I didn't give one single damn about that.
Went from that to
To how it sits now:
Despite my better judgment, she will probably not stay much more factory after this. The desire and absolute need for a 4AG is burning hot.
But yeah, Dave....blue aint so bad now is it? (I actually like the burgundy too)