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Originally posted by mavaaoife
From what I was told from the previous owner.. although I didnt see dyno sheets it was around 422... Obviously he had no idea what he was talking about.. and Lyna good luck finding a stock supra worth anything under $30K these days

There are two lessons here:

1. If the previous owner lied about it's power output, what else didn't he/she tell you? Seriously...being 20 or 30hp off is no big deal, but 80? And where did he get 422? Sounds like he just made that shit up to sell the fucking thing. Saying it made 400hp would've been easier, but even hp numbers are too ambiguous. If you're going to make shit up, it's got to be a specific number, which is exactly what he did.

2. There is no stock Supra on this planet worth $30K. Like my father used to say "things are worth only as much as some idiot will pay for it". At best I'd say $10K. For a highly modded one I'd say $20K would be a good limit. There's absolutely no reason for people to pay as much as they do for those fucking things. It's like all those Grand Nationals I see listed for $15K. They were hardly worth that much new...why the fuck would you pay more for one that's been used and abused (people don't mod cars unless they intend on racing and/or flogging them)? It's one of those cars that people will pay out the ass for just to say they have one. Worthless. I bought my car for $6K and threw roughly $10K into making it go the way I wanted it to go. I could easily annihilate almost any street driven Supra for at least $4K less than the driver likely paid for it. 'Nuff said.