1990 Supra Sunsport

[cavilry]

Oh man...finally...I am finally able to post MY (okay OUR, I am sharing with my roommate) Supra. This will be a definite project, but this is going to be AWESOME. $5,500 total, not too shabby I would say

The stringers feel good, but there are a spot or two that feel a little soft. While the upholstery gets sorted we are going to replace the floors and check everything out.

Also need to find a tower...any suggestions? And of course, no forum thread would be complete without a bunch of photos.

This is how we bought it, just after the test drive:
http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/photo-6.jpg

The hull was a little faded, but within 10 minutes of being home we set to work:

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/photo-5.jpg

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/photo-4.jpg

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/photo-3.jpg

[cavilry]

The interior needs a little work for sure:

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/264.jpg

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/266.jpg

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/267.jpg

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/268.jpg

[TitanTn]

Congrats on the purchase. It's looking great. I'm curious about how you buffed out the gelcoat (you knocked that out so fast). Did you buff with rubbing compound or do some wet sanding?

[cavilry]

Well...we kinda just winged it and I am sure it will not last too long. We used a polish and then a wax from Turtle Wax. haha. Really we want to do wet sanding eventually. Just thought we needed to do something before it got dark ;-)

[sybrmike]

Looks like you just managed to bring home the younger, trimmer, better looking, little sister to the broken down, fugly, old big bertha Saltare I drug home a few years back. My girl's finally starting to come around after a major facelift, so I know your's is gonna be knock down gorgeous when she's all cleaned up. Yes, that quick polish & wax won't last long on the oxidized black, but sure gives you a sense of what's underneath (mine was so chalky it looked blue).

Congrats & keep us posted...

8786

[cavilry]

Oh man! Yup, mine looked just like that! :) It will be a few months before we plan to get it in the water (even in "sunny" california) so we figured while it is in our driveway being worked on, we might as well spruce her up a little! Just so she knows she is in a good home now ;)

I am pretty sure I know the answer, but any chance that there are upholstery kits still out there for these? I am going to be doing some shopping around for local places to see what I can find.

Any tower suggestions?

[wotan2525]

Oh man! Yup, mine looked just like that! :) It will be a few months before we plan to get it in the water (even in "sunny" california) so we figured while it is in our driveway being worked on, we might as well spruce her up a little! Just so she knows she is in a good home now ;)

I am pretty sure I know the answer, but any chance that there are upholstery kits still out there for these? I am going to be doing some shopping around for local places to see what I can find.

Any tower suggestions?

I've heard that there are guys on the malibu forums that have patterns for these boats and can make you whole new skins for DIY installation. My friend went this route on a 95 Malibu and it turned out great.

I've never pursued it since my interior isn't anywhere close to stock. But.... yours looks like it is. Maybe someone else on here knows?

[cavilry]

Interesting.
Yeah I found some guys with on the forum who used a guy named Chee...but thats all malibu stuff?

[whelchel86]

http://www.copycatupholstery.com/gallery.html

Not sure if it is the kinda thing you might be looking for but I have heard great things about this place. A guy I know had his SN2001 redone with their skins and it looks amazing. But then again, he use to do furniture upholstery for a living.

[cavilry]

Nice find! I just contacted them for a quote! That could be great. Putting the upholstery on ourselves is not a concern (I have done my fair share of motorcycle seats, old chairs, etc.) I know this would be a big project, but the hard part for me is the patterns!

[ddb0]

where in cali are you? a buddy of mine does really nice custom towers i do a lot of work for him at his shop. he is in lodi. the place is called hoochie towers hooichetowers.com

[QTE=cavilry;68353]Oh man! Yup, mine looked just like that! :) It will be a few months before we plan to get it in the water (even in "sunny" california) so we figured while it is in our driveway being worked on, we might as well spruce her up a little! Just so she knows she is in a good home now ;)

I am pretty sure I know the answer, but any chance that there are upholstery kits still out there for these? I am going to be doing some shopping around for local places to see what I can find.

Any tower suggestions?[/QUOTE]

[cavilry]

I am in San Jose, CA. That site doesn't work? Either has hooichetowers.com or hoochietowers.com

Well...this weekend we made the leap. As you can see below, the boat is now gutted. I actually did not get a photo of it, but the whole floor is ripped out now. We ran into more rot than we really wanted to see...trying to figure out what to do now. All of the stringers running the length of the boat are in good shape for 95% of their length. The problem spots are where the wood ran perpendicular to the boat across the top of the stringers. Most of those are rotten and a little bit of that got to the stringers going parallel with the boat. I don't THINK it needs a full stringer job but it definitely kind of stopped us in our tracks while we try to figure this out...

http://i232.photobucket.com/albums/ee263/rockandride6/Supra/photo-40.jpg

[Okie Boarder]

Remove the cross braces and see what it is like at the intersections of the longitudinal boards. I think you may find rot there that is creeping or already creeped into the main stringers. They didn't glass in between pieces of wood so if one piece rotted, it traveled to the next. That's what I found when I tore into mine.

[cavilry]

Thanks so much for the feedback :) I don't want to be redundant by writing it again, but if you are curious I went further in-depth about my stringers here: https://forum.supraboats.com/showthread.php?10308-Floors-off...but-now-what

[ddb0]

sorry about that here is the number(209) 367-4557 give him a call vince is his name