My daily driver is getting old and a bit tired. Time for a new one! I was looking for a '95 and up S500 coupe, but a friend pointed out the Lexus SC300/400 and it tickled my curiosity. Any SC300 or 400 owners on this board?

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/cto/5152378961.html

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

get a load of the door hinge assembly! It looks like it came off a submarine. I've never seen anything like that before, even my LS430 doesn't come close.

it looks like they were really thinking through the engineering on this car, never really noticed it before.

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Nate Stanley
(Currently Benzless)
1985 F-250 6.9l 170K
2009 SCION XB 36.5K
2003 LS430 78K
2012 Kubota B 2320

Didn't notice that, looks pretty impressive.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

I have friends with GSes and LSes and the consensus is the 400 seems to be the way to go, chunk more power than the 2JZ and the same fuel economy.

That looks like a nice car.

However I've never owned any of them

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68 280SL - 70 280SL - 70 300SEL 3.5 - 72 350SL - 72 280SEL 4.5 - 72 220 - 72 220D - 73 450SL - 84 230GE - 87 200TD - 90 190E 2.0 - 03 G500

Nissan GTR - Nissan Skyline GTS25T - Toyota GTFour - Rover Mini - Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60 - Cadillac Eldorado - BMW E30 - BMW 135i

That 400 you listed looks like a very good buy. Hard to find in that condition. Great cars too. I briefly owned a SC300 with 29,000 original miles a few years ago.

The radiator is going to be extremely fragile in the car you listed. When they start turning green like that, they tend to crack.

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1985 500SL Euro w/ AMG bits 130k
1984 300SD Turbodiesel 192k
1980 240D Stick China 188k
2001 CLK55 AMG 101k
2007 S600 Biturbo 149k Overheated Project, IT'S ALIVE!!!

Lexus'es are nice cars, but after a while, tend to get a bit "vanilla and boring."

I owned a '93 LS400, great car, but just wasn't me...

Good you mention that. I was already wondering about that color, it looked odd to me.

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1979 Black on Black, 300CD (sold), 1990 Black 300SE, Silver 1989 Volvo 780, 1988 300CE (vanished by the hands of a girlfriend), 1992 300CE (Rescue).

Same is true of OEM Miata radiators.... 'tis a reliable prognosticator of pending failure.

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1961 220b: first project car - sold.
2000 CLK 430: first modern Benz - sold.
2001 CLK 55: OMG the torque!!! - sold
1972 280SE 4.5: Baby Gustav
1991 300TE 4Matic: Gretel the Snow Bunny - sold
1978 300SD: Katz the Free Man - given away
1980 Redhead: Darling Wife

For the V8 1UZFE engine, the timing belt is a $1000 job. Much easier job on its IS300-engined brother. The one you listed seems like a clean example, but beware of the rubber bits on the driveshaft... they are ASTRONOMICAL.

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[GONE] - 1995 Mercedes E300 Diesel - 130k miles - Smoke Silver (702) over Mushroom leather (265) - Bladder blasting, coast-to-coast work machine.