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  • Horangi1987@alien.topBtoToyota@gearhead.townGuys guys:
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    1 year ago

    Ok, so say they did make a TRD Camry coupe. Are YOU going to go buy one for $30-40k? I’m sure it would cost in that range.

    Coupes have a narrow demographic - and the people who could afford a TRD Camry AND want a coupe probably want a ‘real’ sports car and will get an 86 or Supra…


  • I know exactly one person with a ‘78 Century.

    But he’s super wealthy, half Japanese - fluent in Japanese - splits his time between Hawaii/Japan/California, and owns a significant collection of kyusha and had loads of contacts in Japan and US for parts for his kyusha.

    He gave me a personal intro to the owners of Mooneyes Japan - Crown Customs when I was restoring a very rare ‘72 Owner’s Deluxe kujira Crown.

    Short of that kind of connection you will have a lovely decoration that will be a nightmare to work on and get parts for. The air sasu is a massive pain to work on. It’s not the most common car to begin with, so there’s slim pickings for spare parts. You need to be very comfortable working on your own car, including fabrication - because once an engine or the air sasu goes you’ll probably want to swap in a more reliable easy to get engine like a 1UZ and you’ll want to put in modern suspension which will probably require some fabrication to fit in something conventional.

    Rare kyusha can be done, but they’re a time sink and money pit that will probably be running well 50% of the time and require patience and nearly all your spare time.



  • It can also be a technical term in logistics meaning Free On Board, and has to do with who is responsible for the cargo at any given point in the trip. Can we stop with assuming the worst and making every innocuous thing problematic?

    The only people I know that would ever know that interpretation of FOB is immigrants calling other immigrants that word. (My Korean-American friends used that term for each other a lot when we were teenagers for someone going through a trying-to-be-Korean phase)