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Location:
Melbourne
Registered:
January 2005
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RA28 "Mustang" wanted
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Tue, 18 January 2005 03:03
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Im Looking for a ra28 "Mustang" celica in the Melbourne area, registered in reasonable condition....
A Couple of years ago i owned 2 TA23's, one for the road and one that i had fixed for running round on the folks farm. i ended up selling the road vehicle when i lost my licence, but about a year later when i got my licence back i went looking for new celica and i was lucky enough to find a fresh trade in at a dealer. It was a beautiful Black 1977 ra28 stickered at $900 the dealer had got it the afternoon before and had put that price on it before washing it, when i got there he had just finished detailing it was about to put a $2k price on it so i grabbed it then and there. The speedo wasnt working but that took 30 seconds to fix and there was no back seat but there were brackets for a woofer box which i took full advantage of putting in 2 10" jbl subbys. Under the bonnet was stock except for the modified battery bay which had a truck battery sitting in it and extractors going to 3" custom exhaust. I was in heaven  unfortinately 8 months later i ran up the back end of a guy whose stop lights werent working one night and the front end folded up  after getting over the psychological damage of that and getting my licence back AGAIN i met my wife fixed the front end up myself cause i was broke.
At that stage i moved to melbourne, i had to take my car, after everything id been through with i wasnt going to leave it or sell it. So the wife and i loaded it full and drove the 3500km from perth to melbourne in just over 3 days. Once here in melbourne my poor car started to fall apart the police kept stopping me till finally i got yellow stickered, my exhaust was pulling 112db at 3000rpm, the legal limit here is 96db.
Well i got it roadworthied but within 3 months the steering started to go the diff and gearbox needed replacing and a hundred other little things not to mention licence renewal around the corner. To cut this long story short my wife convinced me to give up on it, we went out, got a loan and spent it all on a new car, regestration one ra28 lapsed the shire notified me to remove the vehicle or have it removed so one very sad day i sucumbed to the pressure and sold it to a wreckers for $200.
So now 3 years later i need a second car and of course.. i want a 1977 RA28 "Mustang" Celica
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