so the shop behind ours at work be brought in this celica a few weeks ago, hit in the nose, bent up hood, bumper, and highbeams..i looked at it,..and thought, hmm, that'd be a cool project car..
i asked the guy about it a couple weeks ago, and he said, "gimme 300$, and its yours, parts are too expensive for it"...
needless to say, ill be picking it up next weekend.
once its fixed up a bit, it will replace my daily driver now, my 93 civic.
i figure what the hell, i work on enough celicas, only right i should be driving one daily!
the wifey drives the beast daily, and i drive it as well, but it will be nice to have my own now as well.

so its a 95 GT,185,000 miles. unfortunately, its an auto, but i figure, no biggie, it will be nice to teach my daughter to drive, (she recently got her permit) and later on,... not like ive never done a auto to manual conversion before! lol
run and drives quite well, even with the front end damage, hell, it didnt even damage the radiator, and it looks like it had recently been replaced! SCORE! lol
its Bright Iris Pearl ..i call it "burple" again, at least my daughter will approve, purple is her favorite color!
a couple pics as it sits:
the good:


the bad



the ugly



it even has the manuals




yay!
hey migga, at least you wont be the only one the girls point and laugh at for having an auto at the meets now!!
BWAHAHAHAH

Grats on the pick up I'm sure you will fix it up well haha

airbags didn't even go off? nice find. what are your plans for her? you know you can't leave her stock. that just wouldn't be proper

That should buff out ok. lol
Nice find I was wondering if you got it.

Awesome Manny I cant wait to see what happens in the future with this baby....that celica is one lucky celica it got an awesome owner!!!

BEST OF LUCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

whos your daddy

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thanks guys, nothing really "planned for it right now, other than just getting it fixed up and on the road again.
although, i DO have a super rare set of lotus skirts i could throw on it..and a slightly damaged gt-4 front bumper.....hrmmm

well at least Jenn can stop laughing at ur car hahahahahahaha

Nice pickup Manny
Cant wait to see what you've got installed for it.
Welcome to the "I got 2 6gcs club"

only $300? Damn. nice find! Should be a nice little project for you, have fun with her.

Sweet find you stole that thing!

Dude you got that for $300?! I paid $3500 for mine with 112k miles on it with a salvaged title. Dang it! LOL That's cool though. I can't wait to see what you do to do. I wish my dad wasn't a dead beat and hooked it up with a car and fixed it up. Just make sure your daughter doesn't date guys who don't drive. You wouldn't want a loser in there or even trying to drive it.

NICE !!!

we have enough spare parts between us to get that back to looking good.

$300 you can't go wrong. I think my car was worse than that at one point.

Awesome find Manny.

NICE!

haha auto... you suck


airbags go off?

Thats a STEAL.
Nice find Manny!

any chance of selling the lotus skirts?

im trying to get rid of my invader front if you want pm me if your intrested

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not unless you want to GROSSLY overpay..lol

thanks for the offer ray, im all set with the invader.

steff:
they didnt go off..the kid who the car belonged to hit a trailer hitch, i dont think it was hard enough to set them off.

thanks guys, i cant wait to get this thing back up and on the road.

Nice Manny. your drive way is going to be just insane when everyone gets together there.

That is great man. I want to see pics of the two Celis side-by-side...since the colors are sorta similar you could pretend it is like before and after with the Pimp My Ride show

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hehe yea, it'll be crazy, man!

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BWAHHAHAH

so, my cousin was interested in my civic for his son...and i am interested in the manual parts off the GT sitting in his yard.
needless to say, we've come to a comprimize!
migga, sorry, i just couldnt stay in the auto GT club with ya!
hehe

hahaha, that was quick. Tomorrow turbo kit and meth injection

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lol.. i havnt been on the forums in a while.... then i get to see this.... so many tears.


good luck

Good stuff. I think you might be able to buff that bumper out.

SO Manny, what are your exterior plans for your very own celica?

i was finally able to start tearing into the car...
heres what we got:





no plans for the car are set in stone..for now, i just wanna get it on the road.

i have the lotus skirts that i will prolly put on the car...i was telling the wifey the other day..i REALLY need JDM tails, and springs...

so when are we doing the auto-to-manual swap?


as always, anything you need me to order from work just let me know

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You can take my springs/gr2-s off my hands if you want, otherwise they will just sit for another two years. lemme know