isn't she cute?..lol

After going to the DWG meet, my gf (sarah) wanted a 6th gen sooo bad. She has an 83 3rd gen right now, but she wants to upgrade to somethin a bit newer, safer and better looking. So right after we got back DWG she tried to figure out how she could afford one, and luckly enough, her grandmother gave her a $4500 loan. So after checkin in the states, on autotrader, craigslist, kijiji *canadian craigslist essentialy*, checkin with some of my friends who can get pretty much any sort of car, and ironicly found one on autotrader.ca. Went up, took a look, test drive, and nogociated the price. The guy originaly wanted $3900 as is, i managed to talk him down to $3850 with tax, as is. So shes headin up there tomorrow to pick it up. Any ways, details on it.

Its a 1994 Toyota Celica GT-S, 2.2L, 5spd, silver, black and dark blueish interior. The car has 215xxxKM on it, runs smoother than my car..lol. The interior is mint except for the usual slight rip on the siders side bolster support, and there is a small rip in the vynal on the dash pad. Theres no rust what so ever *that i could find*, no bondo, the paint is kinda mucked up a bit, there are a few good sized scratches but nothing that a good buff wouldnt clear up. The front end was tapped slightly and the fender got re-straited, but no accidents what so ever on it. But yea, shes gonna pick it up tomorrow, tow it to her house *no front brakes*, then im gonna go home on the weekend and work on it while shes in New York for a wedding. So by the time she gets home, im gonna have the paint fixed up a bit, repaint the dashboard plastics *old owner hacked job painted them gray*, put her new shift knob on, shift boot, front brakes, front sway bar end links, install the cd player from her car into it, install my old bass tube subwoofer and just do some quick work on it, clean up engine bay, readjust the fender and just give the car a good once over to make sure its gonna b good. Then on Tuesday when she gets back from NYC, shes gonna go get it e-tested and safetied. She will probably be making an account on here sometime soon.

As for plans for it, we are probably gonna be buyin a 404 kit for it b4 the winter, lowering it, set of 17" replica Buddy Club P1 racing rims, paint it BMW navy blue and then just keep it relatively stock performance wise. Im gonna build her a short ram intake with some of my old parts sittin in my garage, gonna get her a magnaflow muffler and do a half back exhaust.

Its gonna b fun having another celica to work with now and its gonna b run building it the way she wants to.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Sep 17, 2007 - 10:30 PM

Good buy

Nice! I almost bought a silver one initially, but navy blue is going to be nice. Get some chrome rims and drop it like it's hot

Congrats Brian and Sarah

congrats sarah!!
hope to see the new addition to the family at a future meet!!!!

well done guys, nice car

Awesome ride!

well sh*t. So, since im in windsor, and sarah is in toronto, she got really nervous and stressed out about it, and she blew the deal. She doesnt wanna buy the car because the guys who owned the dealership were talking in another language and started laughin, and she figures it was at her. So she told them she was gonna go home and check the VIN on carfax and come back tomorrow, but shes not going back. But the thing that gets me stressed, is when she gets pissed off or stressed out, she talks really fast and you cant understand her. So she was trying to explain whats happenin and what she wants to do, and because i couldnt understand her, she got mad thinkin i wasnt listening. So the search continues...im pretty pissed...but i mean, its kinda reasonable about why she didnt get the car, but its a bit of a pain in the ass that because i wasnt there, she didnt get the car. So...yea...kinda pissed...i guess you can close this thread now.

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sorry to hear that man.
there is a reason for everything.
a better one will come along.

thread closed for now, PM me when you want it reopened.

thanks manny

Well, we made some progress, last week i was in class writing up a lab report, and got bored, so i decided to see if i could find her another celica on autotrader or craigslist. So after about 10 minutes of searching i had found 3 different celicas within her price range and for good prices. I found a 94 GT-S back in Toronto for $3650, a 94 ST hatchback in Detroit for $2800 and a 94 ST coupe in ohio. So i e-mailed the guys in Detroit and ohio asking about their cars and gave the guy in Toronto a call. So i called the guy and he was pretty much like "YES!, good car!...you buy now!!", i tryed asking him about things like accidents, modifications, price etc and he was pretty much just yelling at me "you buy now". So i pretty much said "ill call u back" and havent since. I then got an e-mail from the guy in Detroit whos sellin this hatchback. He tells me in his e-mail that he is actually in spain right now and is selling it to open his restaraunt. He then tells me that the car was in detroit, but is now down in Tampa. So pretty much he was saying "im not in the country, my cars on the other side of the country and if you send me money, ill send you the car", so i deleted that e-mail. Then their was the coupe. Now Sarah told me from the get go, i dont want a coupe, i dont want it in black. So sure enough, this celica is a coupe and black. So i sent a few e-mails back for forth between me and the owner of the car. i found out its in West Jefferson Ohio, sooo, about 10 min away from Columbus. Sarah came down to windsor last week to come pickup her dog, and i had contacted this guy saying we might come down to take a look. So luckly i got off school about 2 hours early on thursday because my teacher had to take his kid to the dentist, so we decided to head out. On our way over, we checked with coustoms and found out we only have to pay 7% of the cost of the car for duty. Not too bad, so we drove down to columbus, but the weather was very iffy the entire way down, we got caught in bad rains, slippery roads, and extreamly bright sunshine. We left Windsor at around 3:45, but by the time we finished talking to customs, getting over the bridge, across the boarder and onto the highway, it was 4:30..lol. So with all this crazy weather and little problems along the way we managed to get to this guys house at around 9:10PM. There was still some light out, but not all that much. We called the guy when we got into his town to see if he could meet us. About 4 min later, he rolls into the parking lot driving a mint 93 GT convertable...so we were kinda impressed. We fallowed him out to his house, and as we are pulling into his driveway, he has the coupe, his celica, an el camino, and a 95 celica convertable. We knew this guy knew what he was talking about. So we took a look at the car, took her for a nice test drive, took a good look at her, and we liked. Theres some small imperfections here and there, the front bumper is missing some paint, the drivers side doors got rust coming through *what a supprise*, a guy backed into him in a parking lot and dented up his passanger side 1/4 pannel near the taillight, he repaired it, but still needs some work, a few paint chips here and there, and he also installed a spoiler too, but didnt gasket it, so there was a tiny bit of water in the trunk. So the girl friend and i remembered that he also said he had some extras he would throw in for an extra $150. What are these extras? a set of 15" wheels, a muffler, and an entire brand new Blitz body kit. So for $150 extra, we had to say sure. So we went to the bank, got out some $ and put a deposit down on her. Now we have to go pick it up in 2 weeks time. So, meet the new baby of the family.




Only mods done to it right now are a cd player and a short ram intake. Shes sooo un-molested..lol. Its also a lower lower end model too, aka no power locks, windows, abs. It does have power mirrors though. Only problems mechanicly, it might need to have its P/S pump over hauled, but thats pretty easy to do. But its got a brand new tranny in it, not even a year old. Brand new clutch, not even 200miles on it. the interior is mint, except for the usual rips on the driver seat. Should be fun.

As for plans, we are gonna install the side skirts from the body kit, sarah wants to buy a TRD wing for it, lower it, put an exhaust on it, curren tails and thats it for now. Personaly, i wanna swap a 20V into it though

This post has been edited by Valo666: Jun 30, 2007 - 12:27 PM

have you had a mechanic look at it? i would do that before you buy it. not to burst any bubles but i dont want to see someone spend a wad of cash and have the car die in a month.

aka no power locks, *windows*, abs. It does have power windows though.

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haha good find! im not a fan of the oem style wings for coupes...

i think she'll like it! i presume its stick?

the car doesnt weigh a whole lot compared to the other style 6th gens, and it handles great!

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Im a licensed apprentice, about to go write my test to get my class A mechanics license, and i also took body work last year for 6 months, so im pretty sure my check over on it was fine.

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Sorry, it doesnt have power locks or power windows. and power mirrors, i was trying to talk and type..lol And yes its a 5spd and i noticed the weight difference, it did feel like it pulled a bit better than Nader's ST hatch.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Jun 30, 2007 - 12:29 PM

Well good luck to you and your girl! I hope she enjoys her car as much as the rest of us enjoy ours.

congrats on the new baby I feel i should get you a cigar

glad ya finally got it man! welcome to the family sarah. i'm sure you'll enjoy her

Thanks Vin. This is Sarah's account but its Bryan settin it up. She honestly has been soo excited about gettin this thing. Im gonna spend a few hours going through my garage today finding parts that are interchangable between the ST and the GT and pull em out to see what we can use in her car.

Congrats!

BTW Are those shots made be the current owner of the Celi. I Always find it fishy when someone sells there car and you can clearly see that 1 minute before he had a sponge over it.

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They were the pics he sent me b4 we went to see the car, when we went down there, i forgot 2 bring my camera and the lighting was too poor to take any pics with my camera phone. But i did take a good look over it.

quick update,...we were gonna go pickup the car tomorrow, but because of the lack of imformation the US customs agency gives, we have to pick it up on saturday. So my weekend is gonna consist of driving about 5 hours, taking off a front bumper, deck lid, tail lights, spoiler, doing some quick body work, wiring, welding and painting. The front bumper on the car has some paint missing, aswell as on the rear its got a section that was hit at a slow speed that is dented in, so im gonna b fixing the work thats already been done on it *pulled out, but not finished over* by puttin some bondo down, sanding it out, smoothing it out and then painting it. Then im also gonna b taking off the spoiler the guy put on him self, patching up one of the holes that im not gonna b needing any more, and just puttin some small rubber patches over the other ones untill our TRD wing makes its way here from Jersey. Also, i might be puttin the side skirts on if i got the time and enough paint. Oh, and cant forget, i gotta wire up some daytime running lights too...yay..

Bryan again, so good news, Sarah is now a full fledge 6gc owner. We went down to pick it up yesterday, had a great drive down and back, cleared the boarder in like 15 min. So every thing is going great. But since we saw the car in the dark last time, i didnt get a full good view of it, so there was some downsides to it, a few rust spots, a bit of paint cancer, and some good stone chips. So we spent about 5 hours today working on it together, we smoked the turns and side markers, re-finished the roof and front bumper, cleaned the interior, and fixed one of the seat belts. So i spent about 2 hours wet-sanding the roof, but unfortunatly, i couldnt save it, so i had to do a quick rattel can spray job on it. For a rattel can spray job + clean coat, it turned out good, same with the front bumper. Also changed all the headlight bulbs, also i put my old "celica" badge on the back of the car. So ill let the pictures do the talking.
When we got it..







Working




after wet-sand






after smoking and clear coat





This post has been edited by Keroppi: Jul 21, 2007 - 4:34 PM

very nice. enjoy the new ride. wet sand does miracles.

congrats you 2, just give it some love and it'll turn out just fine

todays update, didnt do any thing majour, just wired up daytime running lights, changed the cluster bulbs to blue, installed her shift knob and shift boot and re-upholstered her arm rest. Ill post pics tomorrow, too tired now.

congratulations dude to you and sara good find... now we need a mini meet

This post has been edited by behindthesmile: Jul 16, 2007 - 8:31 PM

didnt get a chance to get any pics of the arm rest or any of the work i did yesterday, but heres what im doing..well...actually right now. im sanding and fixing up the rims we got with the car.


Sarah took 2 of them home, so im fixing up the ones we have here. Im gonna clean em up *clear coat is coming off, and im gonna b painting them bronze probably tomorrow b4 we go out and get my old tires off my 15's onto it.

and after a bit of work and sore arms, the finished product, i did a bit of hacky job on this one, but the others im gonna do better.





i still gotta clear coat it tomorrow and give it another coat of bronze.
Whadda u think??

This post has been edited by Valo666: Jul 17, 2007 - 11:27 PM

Nice job on rims. I was digging those rims when I saw them on Tirerack, and the fact that they are German made was even better. They look like they are only 15' rims, but you are making them bling once again!

Your passion for the Celi and fixing it is up is admirable, and to have such a supportive woman by your side that wants to own one too is even sweeter! Don't lose her!

todays update. I managed to finish two of the wheels, the other too are pretty curb rashed, so im taking some extra time to re-finish them. But sarah really wanted them on her car, so i decided to get only the front two put on. They look really good, but makes me remember why i needed to lower my car.
Pics


hehehe..i decided to spray her hub caps bronze too so they wouldnt stand out so much

and why i need to lower it...

i could have easily fit another 2 fingers above my hand too.

Also i decided to install my old bass tube in her car. It sounds decent, and it was just laying around in my garage so why not.
Installing

*sry the pic is so dark*
and the only wiring you see through the entire install


ill get a better pic of the full tube when i take her other rims out of the trunk in a few hours.

next work to be done is re-painting/re-finishing her hood, installing back wheels, full brake job, new shocks and maybe some s-techs, and installin her TRD spoiler that should b arriving sometime within the next week.

This post has been edited by Valo666: Jul 21, 2007 - 4:37 PM