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iTrader: (11)

I was browsing craigslist when I was 17 and saw Lexus+V8. I had to have it. That was last year. (After Ford and GM it seemed so much nicer) It was my 3rd car.

Tommy150

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my dads friend who is a huge car freak told me about it and when i googled it and youtube videos i had to have one 2 years later i owned one and i love it to death. <3

myLEXsc400

I had just sold my Mazda, and needed a car. My budget was no more then $4,500 and I wanted a car that would give me the biggest bang for the buck. So i browsed a bunch of sites, and one day I was watching a video from EVO magazine UK and they had a challenge for the fastest vehicle under £4,000, and the winner was the Toyota Soarer.

Thanks to the internet and Gran Turismo, I knew the USDM equivalent was the Lexus SC, so right away I searched Craigslist and found a 1996 SC400 with just over 160k on the clock advertised for $4500. The next day my dad and I went to check it out, and I fell in love. This was back in March of 2008, and I still own and love the car to death today. It was the first car that I decided to customize, and once I learned about the huge love support on the forums, there was no turning back. On Halloween of 2012 I decided to purchase another Lexus SC, this time a 97 factory manual SC300, with the goal of boosting it. As of today, I have over $17k invested in that car, and its not done just yet

Dream36

Always a fan of Japanese rwd cars. Last year on the Mayan end date I totaled my custom built rx7 that I just spent two years building.
On Xmas Eve I was desperate looking for a car and came across this gem in the back of a used car lot. Mentioned it was nice to the dealer and poof it's mine. It sat at the dealer for a few years and barely survived sandy (in a flood zone) the water never got up to the door by luck I guess.
Car had been nothing but trouble since, however my love has increased as with each fix it gets closer to what I like. I love the lil v8 rumble when I'm rolling down my street (15mph). Can't wait to do a 5speed swap and susp upgrades now that my electrical issues are gone

bznhornets

I never knew about the Lexus SCs until the summer of 2013. While I was looking for a car to buy my co-worker showed me a craigslist ad for a black SC300 (2benvd's car). He explained what the car was about. Two months later I bought it. It's a fun, special car. Always like driving it.

AlexTheKid

Gran Turismo 1 on the first Playstation :P Couldn't quite understand why they only had the 3.0 turbo and not the v8 though .....

Fell IN LOVE with the SC when a co-worker's boyfriend gave me a ride home in his '94 sc300 ......
sex on wheels by definition

Owned a lot of Holden (GM) v8's ... will never own one again :P

SlowC400

A guy I used to work with had a clean genuine 93 Toyota Soarer, I first saw it I'm like what kind of USDM car it that he said "a SC300 but they come with the poor excuse for a 2JZ." Lol, now I have one but the 400. I LOVE IT, but its too slow, twin turbo to come!!!

Sweatshop

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Keith Murray music video-'the most beautifulest....'. He was standing on the roof rapping. I was thinking how could anyone abuse such a beautiful car?

moretoys

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I had been researching RWD imports sports cars for a friend this past spring when I discovered the SC's. I found him a red widebody, turbo, Starion-5speed with 44k for 5 grand and he loves it. Nice car but I wanted something more substantial. I liked the SC430 but couldn't afford one which led me to the original SC. I never seen a SC3 or 4 until I bought my R-Red 55k 96 SC4 off ebay sight unseen last summer. I got lucky as it was pristine, always garaged, with original paint, 1 family owned, perfect leather, great rubber everywhere and every thing works except cd player. I paid twice what many of you have but; carefree motoring comes at a price. Came with original 60k sticker, all books, original cover and original spare tire. No oil leaks, squeaks or vibrations. I put over 7000 miles on it now and cannot wait till spring to drive it again. So far I put on OEM front lip & OEM mudflaps, Aston Martin wheels and rear stainless brake lines. Next is lowering, LS400 BB kit, stainless front lines, along with drilled rotors all around. I really appreciate this forum and understand all the love you guys show these great cars.

LomoFire

I first came aware of the SC's on craigslist looking for a $5,000 and under car to fit my budget. Found a SC400 someone was asking too much for what had been done to it (teen had pretty much ruined it) but about a year later after I had sold my Toyota Celica I went looking again, found an SC400 for around 1,500 and bought it now im in the process of getting it back to stock...well as much as possible.

LEXZILLA

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i was driving my girlfriends 88 honda accord having a heart to heart talk
when this pearl white sc400 (owned by popeys chicken founder and ceo al copland)
and i thought the car was so sexy so we made a deal id bulid her a house get married (not in that exact order and after 18 years of wedded bliss i bought my own jade green sc400!!!!!
it has given me 17 years of pleasure !!!!!
and i just bought a 04 sc430

tenac2215

the game TOKYO XTREME RACER ZERO. two of the boss racers had soarers that were super fast and crazy looking! (one of the bosses was a uzz30 with the abflug body kit!) that was probably the first time i had ever saw an sc.

then when i was in middle school some guy in my neighborhood would always get new cars and modify them like every couple months. eventually i saw that he got a white sc (probably sc300), and i thought to myself, "man, those are pretty bad a$$!" it had a carbon hood and some gold center vsxx looking wheels. after that i kind of forgot about them though...

then about a year ago i started looking into my first car. i was mainly looking into foxbody mustangs and 3rd and 4th gen f-bodies. after months of no luck with those, i started expanding my horizons. for some reason i got hooked on ls400s. i thought they were cool looking and thought it was cool that they had v8's (1uz's). infact, i almost bought a '91 ls400 with factory bbs's, but didnt because the dealer said it failed inspections. after that, i was still hooked on that lexus v8! so i kept looking for ls400s and also started looking into SC's. i ended up finding my '93 silver spruce sc400 with 83k miles on it 2 weeks later and jumped on it as fast as i could! ive had it for almost a year and i love it. i love the way it looks and the fact that its got that 1uz! i recently had an exhaust made for it and it sounds so awesome! no regrets, and i plan on keeping it forever!