Hey... n welcome to my cardomain page for my 1987 Toyota MR2.

i had made this page a couple years ago.. all split into sections.. with tons of pics of my car; but it was just too hard to update. realized now that having it as a giant sequence is much more interesting.. and easy to understand the cars changes over time.. sorta like a thread on a forum. so here it is.

i guess this will somehow go from past-tense to future progress as i update things.. but hey, may aswell just start. you get the idea.

 

ANYWAY.. bought my mr2 in early-mid 2006 after wrecking my old car. after a briefish search of a couple mr2's, i ended up buying the one i had looked at first!

its a september build 3E5 super Red II AW11 MR2 NA 5spd... with full options. one of the first mr2's to ever set 'tyre' in australia... since they were released in ~oct87. mine was in a toyota dealer in sydney NSW by october 1987, before being regd in november. from what i can gather, it soon after came straight down to melbourne where it was regd MRTWO. its been here since ;)

as i said, i bought it in 06 when it was still very original. it had its original paint, interior, motor, books, and was completley stock. had managed to get 300,000kays under its belt, but hid that well, it was in brilliant condition.

like most kids, i started doing pointless things to it staight away. pulled the stock deck out and put in a sony one..

some 4" clarion speakers replaced the dash ones...

and some silver ball shiftknob, and nuffy floormats pics of it in though:

also put in some other bulbs.. not suuuure why...

 

..more photos of it though!

i got that car when i was 18.. and i drove it HARD. damn.. burnouts u-turns, roundabouts, d0riftoing.. and all the other 0rSm things you do when you get your first RWD car. eh, it was a bit of fun, but christ i went through alot of wheels n tyres!

replaced the kumho's on the teardrops with 185/60/R14 pirelli dragons:

i remember i really really wanted a set of simmons V4's. hell, still do actually...

next thing i did.. i think.. was buy a set of eunos roadster wheels (mazda miata/mx5). bloody things were flawless too. but ah well, i painted the centres gunmetal.

drove around with those wheels for quite a while too.

meanwhile in the enginebay.. i polished up the intake manifold (yeah, dunno.. looked cool) and made a sheetmetal battery box one boring night after a few drinks... lol

then somehow managed to get my hands on a f/g S/C engine lid:

sprayed that matt black shortly ater

at this point, its maybe.. july or august 2006? drove like that for a while... before i went out and got my hands on a set of SSR reverse meshes. well, actually..just 2. i STUPIDLY didnt buy all 4, even though i only payed something rediculous like 80bucks less for only buying 2. :|

from.. sep06 i think.. some pics from the Great Ocean Road MR2CLUBVIC cruise:

..and another photo of the car at this point:

also around this time, i managed to somehow find and buy a set of Fortech 48spoke 14X7 chrome wire wheels. id spent too long looking at classic ferrari's and wanted wire wheels bad! (no joke :| )

back wheels werent making for a good ride, so i put the SSR's on the back with this combo:

but then the fronts were pox too, so on went the roadster rims again:

^^ THAT was one of the more memorable points my car had.. i think i drove like that for a while. BLOODY HELL it was dorifto spec. mr2 in the window, black engine lid, mismatched wheels, front lights allways up, and super angle on the front plate (that was also put across to one side.. god what was i thinking! haha) etc... that was from probably ~jan-mar07

other wheels that i think slotted into here, were my mx5 rims that i later painted ALL BLACK (to look like watanabe's), and a set of Gold Delta-meshes i got.

(they were super-flush.. but i didnt really like the look, and they didnt fit all that well..)

 

around this time, i got in trouble for driving shenanigans.. and put the orig wheels back on.

month or so later, i luckily managed to get a set of (BR knockoff) 14X6 watanabe's. ANOTHER set of tyres later, and they were on too!

photo from trackday that was sometime around mid 07

only other thing i remember doing was in maybe aug/oct 07, i replaced the tail-lights with 87-89 ones. we didnt get these in aus because the rear rego plate doesnt really fit. look good though!

that is how the car cruised for QUITE some time. this was may to december 2007, and at that time.. after 340,000kays.. i took it off the road and parked it in the back of the garage.

 

took the wheels and engine-lid off for something different to look at.

 

 

 

EDIT - 1/9/09

,,argh! cant believe i didnt update this for so long! finally looked at it again today and saw the cars original owner's comments down the bottom of the page! s'only right i put new pics up of what the car looks like nowadays! :)

as it is in these pics, the car is 99% factory. even the stock AM radio was cleaned up and wired back in. ;)

 

Factory surfboard rack:

 

didnt end up going through with the previous plans... the car was just too good and original. gives it character anyway i reckon! gave it a well deserved tart-up though... with a brand new front lip, bumper, couple replacement decals, plenty of misc trims, and more. still original paint all over except for the RHR quater panel, front bumper, and lip. the rest is very thin and old, but in great shape for its 343,000kays!

Its been over 3.5years and 40,000kays now, and i still absolutley love it. :)