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Ok, since i crashed the porsche and its been repaired, im leaving it in the garage and buying an NA Supra.

I found one yesterday, good price, 1993, black, good system, tint, exhaust and wheels...

Does anyone know anything to look out for with the NA? Like common faults that i can check for? As far as i can tell its clean as but id like to be certain...

Also, what are these like for insurance? Just cars was closed when i got home yesterday, so if anyone has an idea about what it will cost that would be great...

Thanks Guys , Matt.

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Originally posted by SmoothLine

Im putting on a C-west front bar and taking off the rear wing... I love the way they look.  

Yeah id love a twin turbo one, but insurance is the biatch!

man u should have got a 32 in the meantime!! :) insurance aint that much for it... im 21 and it under 3k

i love pulling up next to ultra riced up supras that arent turbo yet have all these stickers and kits on em thinking that makes em tough and go fast and embarrasing the person in it with my stock 32 :)

if i was going to get something heavy and non 4WD id get a 300zx or a soarer.. they are all boats to em :D

well seriously the n/a supra's do make a bit of power, more than my n/a rb25 r33. about 15rwkw more or something, but as lots of people have said before, the price u pay for a non turbo supra would get you a gtst. but if its an insurance thing an n/a supra could be cool to get, but then again why pay so much for an n/a car when u can pay less for an n/a r33, or even an r32 with an rb25de in it

just my tree fiddee

N/a supra's are ok jsut check to make sure ithe body is ok is it a manual or auto If its auto its probably had an easy life manual tend to get hammered you can mod them up to 450hp in N/a form so there not a slug alot of work has vbeen dpon in the us.

jsut make sure it has reasonable klms drive and enjoy it .

btw if they had a back seat that was usable I'd be sitting in a supra forum now I nearly bought an N/a supra.

yeah they are cool.

meggala

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