General Motors vs. Toyota: A Fable

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[mowowie]

14 Supra’s?
Wow

My 87 turbo was one of the smoothest cars i ever owned (the 93 above was a typo, that was the year of my J30).
Glad i learned about the head bolt torque issue before instead of after... :)
Really miss that car, dark maroon wrapped in this deep metallic flake trim.
Car looked and drove amazing, i was the envy of all my friends.

[Celerity]

“My 87 turbo”

I had 3 87s. One was NA. That was a neat car - the previous owner was the original. He ordered it with solid roof, no turbo and the LSD. That was my daily driver to and from CT and NH for a long time. The head gasket blew, I shaved it down. It blew 8 months later (I was racing at Englishtown doing the Drift Out Wednesday) and I shaved it again. It started to ping and then a year later it blew again. By this point I had shaved .95 off the head and it was running 14.x:1 compression - STATIC. Remember, not a turbo.

It required Cam2 which I was luckily able to get down the road. It was $4.80 a gallon which my friends said was stupid. I gave it to my shopmate who worked at an airport and could steadily feed it avgas.

Heavy, heavy car that was. I had my good 87 turbo (Black on black.. I loved the look of that thing) at the same time I had an RX7TII. The RX7, as a turbo car, was poetry in motion. The Supra demanded good downshifts and fine spooling to really make it go plaid.

But then my friend was killin me with his C4 vette and I was hooked on those things. And the 89 Turbo Grand Prix walked all over my turbo Supras without even trying. It was then that I realised that the Supra just wasn’t getting me where I wanted to be.

A joke: What do 300, 400, 500, 600, 700 and 800 horsepower Supras have in common ?

12 second time slips.

[Celerity]

My love of the Camry died in 88. My ex’s 87 with a 5 speed was another “Finest cars ever made”. That thing was the trooper of the lineup.

That whole class of cars was highly competitive. In 87 Japan was bouncing back and forth with the 626 (A car so good the CT state police used them - unprecedented). The Accord (My fave) the Camry and the 87 Maxima were the best rated cars in history (At the time).