UK 1993 Toyota Supra TT6 - love (eventually) conquers all

[Hammerhead]

Fantastic dedication to a great car! I’ve always admired these. A friend of mine had a 928 S4 manual back when these came out, he was always worried he’d get blown away by these TT cars Your Tiff vid says it was quicker than a 968 - it was quicker accelerating than the whole range!

Enjoy the beast, it’s fantastic to see a ‘standard’ car in such fine fettle

[ravster]

Hammerhead said:

Fantastic dedication to a great car! I’ve always admired these. A friend of mine had a 928 S4 manual back when these came out, he was always worried he’d get blown away by these TT cars Your Tiff vid says it was quicker than a 968 - it was quicker accelerating than the whole range!

Enjoy the beast, it’s fantastic to see a ‘standard’ car in such fine fettle

Thank you. I’ve always been a 928 fan but struggled to find an S4 manual like your friend had. The performance of the Supra without turbo lag is still wondrous even today.

[Mr lestat]

It’s very refreshing to see a car that hasn’t been destroyed by the chavness of Barry mobile.

[Cloudy147]

Great writeup and great car! Thanks for sharing :-)

[ravster]

Mr lestat said:

It’s very refreshing to see a car that hasn’t been destroyed by the chavness of Barry mobile.

Thanks. It’s always ‘stock or not’ for me but we are all different. I think the stock Supra just looks so good. Someone had looked after the black auto I had so I was fortunate to know a lot more about restoring this one.

[Alias218]

That engine bay looks like it just rolled off the production line! Top work keeping a 25 year old car that maintained. I too appreciate a standard car (or at the very most ‘OEM+), so this is refreshing to see over the hordes of F+F lemons.

[ravster]

Alias218 said:

That engine bay looks like it just rolled off the production line! Top work keeping a 25 year old car that maintained. I too appreciate a standard car (or at the very most ‘OEM+), so this is refreshing to see over the hordes of F+F lemons.

Thank you. I can’t claim all the credit, hats off to the restorers it went to for most of the paint work. Always stressful project managing but very satisfying to see her get the love she deserves.

[ravster]

From a time forgotten when the Japanese made exceptional cars. Which one might someone chose...?

[Mr lestat]

ravster said:

Mr lestat said:

It’s very refreshing to see a car that hasn’t been destroyed by the chavness of Barry mobile.

Thanks. It’s always ‘stock or not’ for me but we are all different. I think the stock Supra just looks so good. Someone had looked after the black auto I had so I was fortunate to know a lot more about restoring this one.

How did the top gear part come about ?

[ravster]

Top Gear - they were planning a piece on the new Supra and apparently Paddy McGuinness is a big fan of the mk4 and they wanted a stock UK car for filming. The BBC contacted Toyota UK who don’t have a car. From the event in 2018 I met a few guys from Toyota UK and my car still goes to a Toyota dealer for maintenance. Toyota very kindly thought of me and asked if I would be willing to help out Top Gear and it started from there. A real privilege to see a production like that. A lot of work for 4 minutes filming!

[TommoAE86]

Thanks for the Megazip tip. I agree with your stock or not comment I was the same with the Skyline, it was ‘only’ a GTS-t but I loved it and kept it OEM for 3 years, unfortunately it had to go and the next owner hasn’t been so considerate
Are you likely to go to the Toyota event at silverstone in feb? I am considering taking the Crown. Merry Christmas

[harrykul]

Wonderful car, congratulations on your efforts- they've certainly paid off. Such a cool car....

[Mr lestat]

ravster said:

Top Gear - they were planning a piece on the new Supra and apparently Paddy McGuinness is a big fan of the mk4 and they wanted a stock UK car for filming. The BBC contacted Toyota UK who don’t have a car. From the event in 2018 I met a few guys from Toyota UK and my car still goes to a Toyota dealer for maintenance. Toyota very kindly thought of me and asked if I would be willing to help out Top Gear and it started from there. A real privilege to see a production like that. A lot of work for 4 minutes filming!

Fantastic to see your car on tv like that. I must rewatch that episode. Did you go and see the shoot / meet paddy. Apparently he is quite a decent sort of chap I’ve heard

[SebringMan]

Great to see you have this car! What a journey!

Was your black TT Auto Lewis' old car?

[ravster]

Happy Christmas everyone!

Don’t know who Lewis is so no I don’t think it was

Paddy was a really nice guy and seemed to genuinely like the car. A long day but an honour to see it all happen

Edited by ravster on Wednesday 25th December 12:23

[ShampooEfficient]

Absolutely stunning car. A credit to you!

[v8ben]

Brilliant, huge amount of of work and commitment but what a fantastic result, looks amazing. Many thanks for taking the time to share

[ravster]

v8ben said:

Brilliant, huge amount of of work and commitment but what a fantastic result, looks amazing. Many thanks for taking the time to share

Thank you Ben, really appreciate all the positive comments. Happy Christmas

[v8ben]

And happy Christmas to you, actually writing from hospital recovering from Flu & Pneumonia, 😣 Does give me good to catch up on these readers cars threads! Must get round to posting my own one day.

[ravster]

v8ben said:

And happy Christmas to you, actually writing from hospital recovering from Flu & Pneumonia, ?? Does give me good to catch up on these readers cars threads! Must get round to posting my own one day.

Really sorry to hear that, best wishes to you and hope you make a speedy recovery.