1995 Turbo T-Top JT2SW22N8S0102718

[550Joe]

Date aquired
11/28/2006

Car's location at time of purchase
Pompano Beach, FL.

Other locations if known
Always in the same general area

Color & Door Tag Info
Solar Yellow

Mileage
57K

Condition
Very Good

Additional Details
HKS Turbo controller, HKS Cold Air Intake & HKS Exhaust

[Ncturnal]

Sweet! You bought that one? That's awesome! Very nice man. That is the highest VIN sequence for a 95 that I know of, so until we find a higher one, you have the last turbo brought to the States for that year model. Congrats on the purchase. We're all jealous.

[canadam]

Is this the one once owned by the dealer principal of one of the stores in Florida ? Stitched seats and painted wheels ?

[ALLSHOTUP]

Originally Posted by canadam

Is this the one once owned by the dealer principal of one of the stores in Florida ? Stitched seats and painted wheels ?

I remember that car as well. Nothing like the color of yellow. :-)

[550Joe]

Canadam –
You are correct on which car this is. Although one of the first project for this car is to get the yellow paint of the wheels, it’s just not my style.

A little FYI for anyone interested
Back in 1995 my wife gave me a 1995 NA MR-2 for our 10-year anniversary, it to Solar Yellow. At the time my wife was working at Lexus in the distribution department so she had visibility of all Lexus & Toyota cars and trucks. So when she saw the last MR-2 logged off the ship in long beach she flagged it for herself. I however foolishly got rid of it 18 months later, I guess I was looking for something else. I quickly realized the mistake I had made and have spent the last 5 plus years looking for just the right car to get. As it turns out the car I found is most likely the last MR-2 sold by a dealer, the Florida Toyota dealer originally sold it in August of 1999.

[550Joe]

AllShotup –
Is that Mars Hill, N.C. by any chance? I left the car at my house in Hendersonville, hopefully by next summer I will be living in N.C. full time but for now I am spending most of my time in CA.

[canadam]

Awesome, that's a beautiful car.

One owner with a yellow 93T in British Columbia claims that the paint on those wheels is an extremely rare factory option, but as far as I know it is a customization done by the owner/dealership.

If you do find that it truly is a rareity, FWIW, keep the wheels and find another set for your car. Although, I don't believe this is the case.

Sounds like you have the perfect wife Congratulations on now owning one of the most beautiful MR2s out there Would you mind adding your car to the low mileage registry ? http://www.mr2board.com/forums/gener...t=low+registry

[550Joe]

Canadam -
I will do a little looking into the wheel deal before I do anything to dumb, as for the low mileage link...I just took care of it.

[Ncturnal]

Do you possibly have the VIN of the 95 you had before? I'm trying to track all of the 95 MR2s. I haven't come accross any yellow 95 NAs yet. http://www.mr2board.com/forums/mk2-v...-research.html

BTW, how did you find the board?

[550Joe]

Nctunal –
I found this site do to someone else listing it on Miata.net, I also have a very early ’90 miata & a ’04 LS.

Also for the ’95 NA vin, when I am back at my North Carolina home over the Holidays I will look through some old paper work and see what I can dig up.

[Ncturnal]

Cool. I will add them to our Links Directory.

[turbomr2]

Congrats on the purchase. Now lets see some pics

[550Joe]

Here are a few pics...

Also if anyone is interested there were 382 MR-2's sold in the US (excluding Hawaii) in 1995. So far I have been unable to get a break down between NA's & Turbo's.

[1994MR2]

Nice rare MR2!! Do you mind telling us how much did you pay for it?

[EvanB756]

i was a little sceptical hearing about the paint on the wheels...but i was wrong it looks real good and clean. nice car for sure, and so clean.

[550Joe]

I paid $19,400.00 that price included $2.500.00 in needed service. Before purchasing the car I had it inspected by the same dealership that had originally sold it and they are the ones that came up with the list of items necessary.

As for what I paid it was too much if you look at it as just an MR-2 Turbo w/57K on it. However I spent the last 5+ years looking for a Solar Yellow Turbo in very good ~ excellent condition, so in the end price really was not the driving issue.

[MR2NR15]

Where there any other years the painted wheels where an option?

[MR2TuRbZ]

definately awesome to have another '95 turbo in good hands!

[canadam]

For a '92 with 57K on it you may have paid *a little* too much, but for a '95 you're right on par. To find the colour you want in a perfect car is just an unbelievable bonus. Most people are just lucky enough to find such a perfect example.

Originally Posted by 550Joe

As for what I paid it was too much if you look at it as just an MR-2 Turbo w/57K on it. However I spent the last 5+ years looking for a Solar Yellow Turbo in very good ~ excellent condition, so in the end price really was not the driving issue.

[PETC]

Originally Posted by MR2NR15

Where there any other years the painted wheels where an option?

Painted wheels were never an option, that's aftermarket.