(moved and deleted photos in photobucket lol) Bought a straight, untinkered standard Toyota Rev5 NA with full leather and 21k on the clock in 2001.
Driving this car reminded me of
"smokey and the bandit" and was great for a few years until I became more active on IMOC in 2002 and became hooked on having a Turbo conversion after reading Frank's aka Cosmosbluemr2 thread on his turbo conversion.My 2 went in for the
(then) Rogue Systems "drive-in drive-out" treatment with a few little extras too and was fine for a couple of years, then got bitten by the modding bug and changed my wheels a few times and got some Recaros and was happier then...But it didnt stop there, I wanted more power and after reading loads and many late
(1am) phone calls with Peter Sbits, I placed an order for an ATS TDO6 kit with screamer. A long list later that included forged pistions, Piper 264 cams, Radtec chargecooler, KO Racing R1 zorst, TRD ARbs and strut braces, carbotech pads etc etc, my car became a beast with 352 ATW at 1.4 bar
Then after pouring a lot of time, money, thought into that mr2 and getting it to the stage of just needing one more remap to tweak the power to 400 bhp,.
.. Then after one hell on earth, doomed lecherous relationship ended with me kicking out my cheating Ex to the kerb, and lost all interest with my mr2 before meeting many months later, my wife to be.
We got engaged, needed the money and sold it to Rash from RA Motors in March 2008 to fund getting married and buying a
"sensible car"...a Rav4 yeh 
Then as Rash drove off in her I could still hear her on the motorway as he gave it some beans
Rash then advertised her for sale.
..and then I realised I'd made the biggest mistake of my life 
Fast forward a few years and I wanted an MR2 again and bought Jimgts REV5 in March 2012, so a deal was struck and I bought her
But although this was a great modified mr2, I missed my old 2 and a chance conversation with Peter and he told me that he still saw my old 2.
..but in Guernsey!! In fact he flew out there every few years to work on my car, service it, clutch change etc.
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