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Oct 14, 2007 | 08:05 PM

9520G

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Low miles=lots of money

Check out this supra,all original and look at the current bid!

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/1998-...QQcmdZViewItem

Oct 14, 2007 | 08:23 PM

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Whats even more amazing is the owner knows nothing about the car. Look at the comments. He thought it had 420hp stock....

Oct 14, 2007 | 08:57 PM

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Isn't it 320hp stock?

Oct 14, 2007 | 09:23 PM

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Does it matter that it is the quicksilver edition? Maybe a bigger chip or something?

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Whats even more amazing is the owner knows nothing about the car. Look at the comments. He thought it had 420hp stock....

Oct 14, 2007 | 09:36 PM

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Sounds like one of those where people will mess with the auction

Oct 14, 2007 | 11:23 PM

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I wonder if these will ever reach a level where it is like the 2000 GT. This will be interesting to see what it sells for.

Oct 15, 2007 | 12:21 AM

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WOW...my friend give me the title of his 98 6 speed before he left the US car was in storage for years it got only few thousand miles on its silver too!! I wonder if that worth anything

time to dig that thing up

Oct 15, 2007 | 06:24 AM

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I did some basic research on the "Quicksilver" edition and it doesn't exist as far as I know it was just a "special" color.. I think the guy is full of it... then again I am not a supra "expert".

The whole thing with the "Quicksilver Edition" is that it was a special color that was made... Not really an edition, but more like a limited production. It's the same thing with the Royal Sapphire Pearl. Those are the two colors that bring in the premiums for the color scarceness. It's almost like the Spectra Blue Mica thing on the GS4. They made it for a few years in limited quantities which in turn makes them "rare."

As for the posting itself... there are tons of errors which makes me think that it's possible that it might be yet ANOTHER eBay scam https://www.clublexus.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=312285... but whatever... One thing, it's definitely not the last one to roll off the assembly line as they continued the production until 2002. This MIGHT be the last one that was imported to the US, but definitely not the last one to come off the line.

From what I understood, the first and last one's to roll off the assembly lines are stashed in the Toyota museum. Where they hold cars like the GT-1 and some of the rarest Toyota's ever made.

Oct 15, 2007 | 09:49 AM

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Whoever said cars are a depreciating asset?

Oct 15, 2007 | 10:00 AM

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That car is a legend in the owner's own mind.

Oct 15, 2007 | 10:08 AM

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the one thing Id really be scared of is the coolant passages rusting since the block is iron, being it only has 3221 miles over 10 years

Oct 15, 2007 | 12:19 PM

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i just look up the paperwork fro my friend's car you guy will be shock how much the car was sold brand new back in sep 1998.. his car is silver but i don't know if it is quicksilver i guess i need to hunt him down and ask him... and last time the car was register was like 8 years ago had only 1800 miles, look like it is a rare car too just like the one on ebay