We all love our gen 6's....

but what did you drive before?

Here's a piccie of mine..can you tell what it is?

i had myself a 87 honda crx!! carburetors ftw! haha...not

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You drove a Lotus Omega Why on earth switching to a FWD Celica?

Before celica i had renault clio I

ahh the list...
this is what all had my name on it, or was "Mine" for a couple months from my 'rents in between vehicles... so here they are with the paid cost and the reasons i stopped driving them.

15 years old
78 Chevy C/K Pickup (4 on the floor) - farm truck that's been in the family since '78 got the ranger
91 Ford Ranger XLT - black 3.0 v6 Manual - paid $5500 in 97 - totaled it
89 Ford Tempo - Baby blue "Christmas Present" from the rents bought with my own savings-$2000... thrashed it every day - blew frost plug, sold to boneyard
48 Ford F-1 (original F Series Truck) - paid $500, sold for $1500 to a collector 4 months later
84 Pontiac 6000 - tougher than a sherman tank - $500 inbetweener car, think it just died one day while playing tag with it
86 Mitsubishi Mightymax 4x4 - best pickup ever - paid $1700 could get thru everything - think i threw a rod
......back to the 78 C/K for a bit......

18 years old...
joined military
got mitsubishi fixed

19 (2002)
Bought 98 PLYMOUTH Neon (yeah, not even a dodge) 1.8 SOHC Automatic (totally bought the wrong one, and i paid $16000 for it, instead of getting an eagle vision) - blew the head gasket, tried to do it myself at the 29 Palms auto hobby shop (with no help of the jerks at the hobby shop), after a couple weeks of not being able to figure it out, we put all the parts in a box and we took pushed it over to the shop across the street, and $1600 later, i had my car back. - sold for $1500 in 2006
Mitsubishi sold when i was in 29 palms by dad to cover cost of fixing it

23 (2006)
95 Toyota Curren - Black 3sge automatic - paid $1200
95.8 Celica SS-III - White 3sge automatic (i hate how you can never find a stick on okinawa FOR SALE) - paid $2300

and i turn 25 next week. 8 of those had my name on them at one point in time (the last 2 still do)

i used to go through cars as fast as some people go through their underwear...

My first car was my parents 94 Ford Areostar..it was sooo terrible and the front end parts were so worn out that you could turn the wheel 1/3rd of the way around with the front wheels actually not moving..lol

Then i had a 87 Supra auto non-turbo hardtop. I bought it for $500 but it was MY first car. The first one i bought with my own $. I was 17 at the time. It had 350xxxkm on it, it had a bad tranny, bad motor mounts, no brakes. And when i mean no brakes, i mean i had no rotors or pads left on all 4 corners *untill i changed the fronts* and my brake lines were starting to rot out. It had an AM/FM radio with a tape deck, but only 1 speaker that barely worked. So i ended up throwing a boom box in my back seat connected to a power inverter. It had a hole in the exhaust, hole in the rear 1/4 pannel wheel well. So it was like middle of feb, freezing cold outside, but i had to drive around with my window down all the time so that the car wouldnt fill up with exhaust fumes. The rear window tint was all bubbled and you couldnt see out of it. It was about 4 different colours of white. The hatch wouldnt close all the way.

It was such a POS, but honestly, i miss that car.

and then i parked the supra and tryed to sell it, waited for about 3 months, no one bought it, so i donated it to my highschool shop. And then i bought my celica with all the $ i had saved up for trying to fix up the supra.

v8 5.0 HO ....man I miss that power

:[ i miss her my very first stick shift car which was my dads. all my friends who always passed by my house always complimented on my car cause they knew its potential and what it could do but i had no clue and thought it was just a normal car. then when it was passed over to me i turned it into this sexy beast... unfortunately it had a rod knock and i didnt have money to fix it so i just sold the whole car.

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Lotus Carlton hun, and wasn't a case of switching, was a case of things going drastically and EXPENSIVELY wrong......

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You seriously got rid of that clean S13 cuz it had rod knock?....u do know that SR20s are like $500 now..lol But sexy looking car though. I love the Kouki tails and that RPS13 center section. Its funny, if you had sold thouse tails you probably coulda bought ur self a SR20 or a CA18

96 auto st coupe (i thought wire loom was the ****)

This post has been edited by x_itchy_b_x: Dec 26, 2007 - 8:31 AM

1995 corolla

after 2006 Tacoma

89 camry
99 dodge ram
03 hemi ram
94 celica gt
06 350z

benz and bimmer current

94 ST
94 GT
then now 04 TL

85 Camaro
89 Buick Centry
78 Plymouth Arrow (learned stick with this)
89 Ford Crown Victoria
95 Toyota Celica (now)

had a 91 saturn with over 350,000 miles! sold for $1,000
then a 91 jimmy 4x4, miss that beast.
now my celi.

Car Timeline(missing quite a few quickies just for laziness):
89 Toyota Camry
91 Buick Centry(she was a trooper)
93 Ford Probe
99 Windstar
89 Jeep Cherokee(2 door)

Current:
98 Dodge Ram 1500(ignition issues at the moment)
95 Celli ST(Headlights n Clutch problems)
87 Mustang LX 2.3L (Exhaust leak n back quarter window gone)
06 Focus(only fully functional car at the moment but needs to go in for service lol)

93 Camry LE, rebuilt 5SFE.. was pretty quick for a first car.. totalled it.
91 Celica GT Coupe, fart can and hot air intake.. sold it and made 800
97 Celica ST Totalled that slow POS.. well nota POS just stock as can be.
00 GTS, any one want to buy mine for 10K?

In the past 5 years:
89' Nissan 240sx S14..had for a year and got totalled
95' Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme...was free, so I can't complain

now:
96' Toyota Celica...had for a year plus. Love it!

1991 Mitsubishi Eclipse GS - automatic. It took me a year and a half to ruin that car..
Then I got my 94 ST - which had a knock, and now no longer starts
Now i'm in between cars, jobs and school. OH well, gotta make a fresh start sometimes.

my very first.....1969 chevy el camino


1984 honda accord hatch back 5 speed
(no pic)

1988 dodge aries k


1991 mk2 jetta wolfsburg ed. 5 speed


1988 chevy camaro(still buildin her)


1988 dodge daytona
(no pic)

and of course my baby.....

These pics were taken only a few weeks ago. My first car--- '93 Honda Accord-- beat to crap by my brother and finally totalled by him. Poor baby. She was mint when I had her.
She still runs & drives.. in fact, my brother drove her all the way home after the accident... then we drove her to the junk yard the next morning. .... Reliable 'till the end.







My newest toy-- '97 celica GT. She needs a lot of work but I'm pretty confident she'll be irresistible when I'm done.

Drove a 6gc before current 6gc... before that drove a toyota 4x4, before that drove an AE86... Right now, still daily drive the celica, sold my 20V Ae86, sometimes drive my MR2, sometimes drive my MA70, sometimes drive my Taco, and sometimes drive my Tundra . Good times...

This post has been edited by Kwanza26: Dec 26, 2007 - 10:35 PM

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89...S14??

89 was S13, S14 didnt start untill like...93 in japan or 94 over here.

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oops, my bad. yeah been a while since I've had it and never really got the chance to learn all I could about the 240's

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woot, I had a 88 civic dx. only had 36k on it too all garage kept

This post has been edited by creis: Dec 27, 2007 - 4:32 AM

'89 Celica ST, got me across the country from NYC to Portland in 1998
'87 Pathfinder in 2001
'92 4Runner in '04 (I really miss that car)
'94 ST this past July.

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at least you had the newer body style lol

when i first got my license i had a 95 mercury tracer. clutch was shot when i was through with it. paid $300

drove my parents 2000 dodge intrepid they sold it talk about a boat on wheels. quick though.

parents then got a 02 monte carlo. very fast but not my thing

bought my 97LE celi. drove that for 10 mo til some stupid %&^*( pulled out in front of me and totalled it.

week later i found my 99 gt.

my next car will probably be an older 4runner to drive in the winter with the celi garaged. only time will tell

Had a '90 GMC Suburban when I got my license. The land tank. Ran it through some trees.
Had a '99 Chevy Tahoe for graduation present. Ran it into a mall.
Had another '90 GMC Suburban. Had a wicked engine knock and old it to some Mexican.
Got my Celi and totalled it 3 weeks later. (wasn't my fault this time). Rebuilt it. Totalled it again while driving in the rain. Rebuilt it again.
I refuse to let Tom die.