Supra Comp, Born 1986, Reborn 2015

[chris young]

Nicely done! Looks so much nicer without the tower, are you putting it back on?

[Jetlink]

Nicely done! Looks so much nicer without the tower, are you putting it back on?

Nope, that tower could very well be containing your adult malted beverage. After looking at it, I began to realize that the previous owner had cut the rear legs at the top to make it fit the boat better and did a crummy weld job and the welds were starting to fail. That coupled with seeing Kent's gorgeous Comp at the TN reunion last year had my mind made up that the tower just had to go. The holes have since been glassed over/under and gel coated over though I am not too happy with my first attempt at patching gel coat so I will be remedying that soon.

[NoWake]

Glad to be of inspiration! I really like your radio. Pure combustion.

[Jetlink]

Glad to be of inspiration! I really like your radio. Pure combustion.

Yeah, it's stuck on repeat though. Not that I am complaining.

[TitanTn]

Great job Ben. I know it's a great satisfaction to see this done. I hope to see it again at a Southern Supra Reunion!

[Jetlink]

Great job Ben. I know it's a great satisfaction to see this done. I hope to see it again at a Southern Supra Reunion!

It will be back again for at least one more appearance, though it might be a few years before I drag it all the way down there with the land barge again. Laura says the kids have to be a little older before that trip will happen again.

[mabbore]

JetLink, can I ask you what your budget for your build was?

[Jetlink]

Well, I did both a rebuild and a sort of "Resto-mod" on it at the same time. If you are talking about doing just a restoration which is just floors, stringers, fiberglass, resin and carpet then I can give you a ball park. I budgeted about $4,500 for the materials and tooling I needed to do the items listed above. That also included the cost to build my two gantry style cranes to pull the engine/trans and top cap as well. All the extras that I did along the way pushed this total job above the $4,500 I budgeted for just the stringers and floor though.

[mabbore]

Did you rebuild the engine as well? was that in the budget?

[BigCity444]

Nicely done. I'll get back to IL one of these days to see it.