Ever since he was hired at a local shop, Nick Dawson noticed the white Toyota MR2 sitting abandoned outside of his job. After a few years, Dawson became curious and decided to check out the car and see exactly why it was sitting alone and abandoned. After all, it's a 24-year-old Toyota that hadn't moved in nearly two decades; surely something catastrophic had to be wrong for it to be untouched. That's when he noticed the car's gauge cluster.Not only does the MR2 have only 1,461 miles on the clock, but it also happens to be an SW22 (Turbo) chassis. The insanely low mileage was enough for Dawson to reach out to the owner of the shop and get a little backstory on the car.
An agreement was drawn up to sell Dawson the abandoned car for $500 and he began the procedure to re-title the car under new ownership due to it being abandoned. As he began the titling process, Dawson would come to find out that it was stolen from a Toyota dealership in 1993 and hadn't resurfaced since. Local police came out to check on the car and after being provided a work order from Dawson's shop that was drawn up in 1999, police towed the car away.
Fortunately for Dawson, when the police contacted the original dealer who reportedly had the car stolen from them, the company wanted nothing to do with the old Toyota that was missing its interior and had its wiring stripped out. In the favor of the soon-to-be new owner, they had brushed it off.After the short-lived battle with the state authorities, Dawson was ultimately able to obtain the title of the MR2. He put new seats in the car, rectified the wiring gremlins, and brought the car back to being the roadworthy gem that it once was. Though he has been reportedly daily driving the car for the past several weeks, Dawson has every intention of keeping the MR2's mileage low, readying it to become a weekend driver. Thankfully, unlike some wonderful barn finds, he doesn't plan on selling it any time soon.
An agreement was drawn up to sell Dawson the abandoned car for $500 and he began the procedure to re-title the car under new ownership due to it being abandoned. As he began the titling process, Dawson would come to find out that it was stolen from a Toyota dealership in 1993 and hadn't resurfaced since. Local police came out to check on the car and after being provided a work order from Dawson's shop that was drawn up in 1999, police towed the car away.
Fortunately for Dawson, when the police contacted the original dealer who reportedly had the car stolen from them, the company wanted nothing to do with the old Toyota that was missing its interior and had its wiring stripped out. In the favor of the soon-to-be new owner, they had brushed it off.After the short-lived battle with the state authorities, Dawson was ultimately able to obtain the title of the MR2. He put new seats in the car, rectified the wiring gremlins, and brought the car back to being the roadworthy gem that it once was. Though he has been reportedly daily driving the car for the past several weeks, Dawson has every intention of keeping the MR2's mileage low, readying it to become a weekend driver. Thankfully, unlike some wonderful barn finds, he doesn't plan on selling it any time soon.
