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Originally Posted by tdoggy57
OK, so every day on my way home I see this red MR2 for sale. Looks really clean for such an old car. Today, my curiosity got the best of me and I stopped by on my way home from work to take a look.
Everything looks good and clean on the outside, paint looks good, looks to be original everything. The older man came out to assist me (or make sure I don't steal it, I'm a young colored guy lol) and he ended up being pretty cool. He said that an older lady owned it and all she did was drive it to work at a church every day. He said that the interior looks brand new and tried to show me, but the door was frozen shut lol. I reassured him that I believed him about the interior and there was no need to break the handle off.
So in short, it's a red manual 87 Toyota MR2 with 60,000 original miles with 1 owner. His listed price is $1495 and he said that he needs at least $1400.
Should I bite? I don't know a ton about these cars other than the fact that they're RWD, lightweight, and fun to drive. I've never owned or driven a manual, so I'd be learning on this. It'd be a second car to my FR-S obviously. Is this a car that would be good and inexpensive to mod?
I know a lot of you guys have experience in the past with these, so let me know what you think! Sorry didn't snap any pics.
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Colored? Really? I hope that you don't refer to yourself in this manner often.
As for the car, 1,400 seems like a drop in the bucket for an ultra low mileage 80's Toyota. But I don't know the ins and outs of the service work that it might need to keep it on the road. I think it would be a real fun "first" manual to learn on.