This isn't a factory color, is it?

ninjadude206 · May 24, 2009

Saw this on Portland's craigslist. Looks so clean, but not a color I've seen before.

mdr40z · May 24, 2009

looks super red to me

Kro781 · May 24, 2009

wow very smooth looking. is there a better pic without so much reflection from the sun?

x2 on super red

rmjdrift · May 24, 2009

Could be OEM red, faded by the sun a bit. Look at it in person. Open the doors and hatch check the jams to see if its been repainted. Also on the drivers side door will be the paint code.

ninjadude206 · May 25, 2009

I know there was the "white package", but there wasn't a "red package" was there? I think that's the tip-off if it's a repaint, the red side mouldings.

http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk356/mazen100/1997ls4001992subra030.jpg
http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk356/mazen100/1997ls4001992subra030.jpg
http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk356/mazen100/1997ls4001992subra032.jpg
http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk356/mazen100/1997ls4001992subra033.jpg
http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk356/mazen100/1997ls4001992subra034.jpg
http://i308.photobucket.com/albums/kk356/mazen100/1997ls4001992subra035.jpg

http://portland.craigslist.org/clc/ctd/1190368665.html
The dealership is licenced in a different location than they've posted the car at, weird...seems kinda sketchy.

RTA Supra · May 25, 2009

The both of my last 91's had red mouldings

SupraOfDoom · May 25, 2009

Looks like a car I had so I would say it is.

ninjadude206 · May 25, 2009

It looks so freakin' orange-red though

wnenn · May 25, 2009

It's faded.....91 and 92 cars had body colored mouldings.

topguncam3888 · May 25, 2009

ninjadude206 said:
It looks so freakin' orange-red though

Faded/oxidized

wnenn said:
It's faded.....91 and 92 cars had body colored mouldings.

+1

Super Red

JeanB95tt · May 25, 2009

definitly stock color

aljordan · May 26, 2009

I would certainly buy that for $6k. Everything looks to be in great shape.

DegreE · May 26, 2009

aljordan said:
I would certainly buy that for $6k. Everything looks to be in great shape.

Never judge a book by it's cover.

jedsred88 · May 26, 2009

yeah that should be Super Red, thats what mine is, they just painted the moldings

RazoE · May 26, 2009

It's a repaint, as the "turbo" badge on the back is painted AND in the wrong place...

91/92 cars had body colored molding, but they weren't painted the way white package trim is..

If you look at the trim, the plastic is sort of a matte color, and the small rubber strip has 3 lines in it, that's how you can tell it's original.

My 92 has black molding, but they aren't painted black and you can see the strips in the rubber portion..

Sawbladz · May 26, 2009

Wow, so much misinformation in this thread. The car is a 91/92. It has the Toyota badge instead of the Supra badge. This means the mouldings came red from the factory. Another good tip is the Shadow grey interior.

Also, the car may not be faded. If the pic was taken about noon it would look exactly like that. It's called bad light and is a photographers nightmare.

This was taken at noon.

This was taken closer to 6:00 in the afternoon.

Jeff Lange · May 26, 2009

Car in original post looks original to me. (ie: nothing looks changed beyond original factory specifications).

So sayest Jeff.

Jeff

lagged · May 26, 2009

looks just like mine. factory color.

fridaygo · May 27, 2009

Car looks good. I would by it!

ninjadude206 · Jul 8, 2009

I bought it today! :agreed:

So great to be back in the saddle again. Been driving a stupid '87 Jetta since I sold my last ('87 Turbo)Supra in '03, lol.

Dude was so good at responding to my emails in vague non-discript fashion that I didn't even think to flat out ask him if it was a repaint. I was too focused on asking about the top of it being sun-faded I guess, lol. I'm actually glad it's a respray though, he says it was painted "Ferrari Red", and they did a pretty good job on it, as you can see. Stumped some of you, lol. I like how the red has kind of that aged look to it like it's been tooling around Hawaii with Magnum PI behind the wheel

...but I didn't care and headed down to Portland to look at it anyways because the whole car looked so evenly sun-faded, lol, and I actually liked that better than stock, lol, that and they had dropped the price to $4995

"Cash only" though, so it took me a while to save up, and I was a little leary to have that much cash on me, strange request for a "dealer". He hooked me up though and made me a bill of sale with the selling price "accidentally" left blank, heh heh, so it's like I got it for only $4500 without the tax!

Thanks for all your responses, I can tell this is going to be a great place to get help and info on the car. Cheers, Don

P.S. the owners son almost shit a brick when I told him I was going to be delivering pizzas in his little baby, lol

This isn't a factory color, is it?

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