I won’t tease you all and get right to the point. Just sent a payment for a 1997 Supra RZ-S. It’s a turbo 6-speed with 94k kilometers (58k miles) and stock unmolested outside of the works wheels.
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I wasn’t looking for this car but I told my contact in Japan to let me know if a clean stock Supra pops up I’d be interested in buying it with the intention of selling it to a friend looking for a clean car. I’m right outside of Galveston port and titling a car in Texas is not terribly difficult.
Now on to the good news about this car. It’s super clean in and out considering it’s 25 years old. It became eligible for import last month as its 3/1997 production car. It’s also the first S2 (mid life refresh) year so what that means is that it has updated interior and gauge cluster as well which is more desirable than prior s1 years. The interior is really nice although the shifter panel may need some work to fix it. The underside of the car is free of rust outside of minor surface rust on the front lower control arms which should clean up nicely. The title, odometer, and repair history is all clean/no prior reports.
So what am I going to do with it? I’m not sure but I intend to sell the car once it gets here and I go over the car and make sure it’s mechanically sound, clean, and titled. My friend has a shop that we’ve discussed doing small amount of imports where I’d bring them in, we’d fix at his shop, and he would sell them. This is kinda a trial run to see if it’s something we want to pursue. As we could bring in a handful of cars at a time.
For what I paid for the car I feel as though I got a decent deal. The Japanese Yen has taken quite a hit in the past couple months so deals are decent just with the US dollar having more power. I still have to pay for the customs, import fees, and titling once it gets to Texas but the cost for buying the car, transportation, documentation, and export was all baked into the sale price.
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manaboon.co.jp
I wasn’t looking for this car but I told my contact in Japan to let me know if a clean stock Supra pops up I’d be interested in buying it with the intention of selling it to a friend looking for a clean car. I’m right outside of Galveston port and titling a car in Texas is not terribly difficult.
Now on to the good news about this car. It’s super clean in and out considering it’s 25 years old. It became eligible for import last month as its 3/1997 production car. It’s also the first S2 (mid life refresh) year so what that means is that it has updated interior and gauge cluster as well which is more desirable than prior s1 years. The interior is really nice although the shifter panel may need some work to fix it. The underside of the car is free of rust outside of minor surface rust on the front lower control arms which should clean up nicely. The title, odometer, and repair history is all clean/no prior reports.
So what am I going to do with it? I’m not sure but I intend to sell the car once it gets here and I go over the car and make sure it’s mechanically sound, clean, and titled. My friend has a shop that we’ve discussed doing small amount of imports where I’d bring them in, we’d fix at his shop, and he would sell them. This is kinda a trial run to see if it’s something we want to pursue. As we could bring in a handful of cars at a time.
For what I paid for the car I feel as though I got a decent deal. The Japanese Yen has taken quite a hit in the past couple months so deals are decent just with the US dollar having more power. I still have to pay for the customs, import fees, and titling once it gets to Texas but the cost for buying the car, transportation, documentation, and export was all baked into the sale price.
