SPEED HERO Blog — convertible

Pairs upon piles of 5M's.

I can't fight it. I shouldn't fight it. I've just have a magnetism to 5M powered vehicles. Though it seems more often then not they seem to find me. My first 5m powered car was in the form of a free '81 Supra. This was a free donation from the owner, the only one in the bunch I never got to slide. More on the story of it in 'The Beginnings". This little duck is so far the only 5ME, I've owned. 81Supra The was a white automatic ghost...


How could I forget?!

The E7 loves continue with a lapse in my memory. How could one forget the wicked Griffith built E7 Corolla convertible! What most people don't know is that almost all convertibles made start their lives out as hardtops. Toyota and most other manufacturers do not built the convertibles in house but rather send them to 'coach' builders. The hardtop car shows up at companies such as American Sunroof Corperation, Griffith, etc, and they just hack the roof off, add some chassis braces and start bolting and gluing shit together. It's standard practice! Want to see more old Japanese coach built...