hey

i've been trying to decide how i want my celica to look, i've already decided i want bright yellow, with a gt front spoiler and all of that, but i also have a large disliking for the front blinkers, so i've modded them off the pic to see how they look...

what do people think? shall i try to achieve this look? or will die hard celica fans key my car for it..

i also have one more mod in mind, that was a bit too difficult to do in the pic, which is to put a ta23 bonnet on the ta22... now before you all say it's too big and doesn't fit, don't worry i know a way to do it.

anyways, here's the pic's
the first is the original (which is not my car, just one that looks the closest to what i want) so you can see what i've done.

[Updated on: Mon, 12 July 2004 13:35]

hey all

thanks for all your opinions, good to see what people think.

anyways, whilst i'm posting the front, i figured i might as well show the mod i plan for the back...

so i went and put it together bout an hour ago..

personally i prefer the original image, BUT, we are in australia and those american style rear lights don't have a orange blinker attached to them, and i assume they won't accept a red one, so here's what i've done to compensate.

besides, i want to set these rear lights up, so they light up all the way accross, kinda like a devils horn effect...

let me know what you think?




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if the 2 pics don't load... goto this website
http://www.freewebs.com/chutz_pah

[Updated on: Mon, 12 July 2004 13:36]

chutz_pah you can get those GT lights here with the orange PROVIDING those people that have them are willing to part with them

there was an add in ebay for one of them (i think was left) but only one with chrome cover... thinking back i should have bought it

also i got an automatic boot opener in the car im buiilding now (SICK AS) and the cable should work too but ill leave the key

[Updated on: Tue, 13 July 2004 03:11]

opinions appreciated...

when i originally bought the celica, i didn't buy it cos it was a celica though... or toyota or anything like that..

i actually sat down and wrote everthing i want in a car..
first i decided it needed to be relatively cheap as my pockets have holes in them... (and no, i don't mean that i play with myself, i mean i don't have much money)... so i decided to go for an older car, 80's cars suck ass, so i set my eye on the 70's variety...

i then decided i wanted a small car, 2 doors, 5speed manual & a 2.0lt twincam engine with a supercharger... (the engine i knew would be a later thing, and yeah, i know bout the availability's of a 2.0lt that fits in easy... i'm gonna settle for the 3tgte, however i still want the supercharger, not a fan of turbo's)

anyways, after looking at alpha gtv's, datsun z's, escorts and any other car that came close to that description, i saw a celica go by.. at the time i was 17 (23 now) and had never seen it before, had no idea what it was or anything like that... so for months later i kept my eye's peeled and asked 2nd hand dealers if they knew what car it was from my description... eventually i found out by spotting one in a car park... i was actually suprised, cos i once had a friend who had an early 80's version of a celica, and didn't like it one bit, so to find out it was a celica, was weird...

anyways, couple months later, i saved up a "huge" wad of cash and bought my first celica for the pricely sum of $90...
(oh yeah, and i found $5 in shrapnel inside). plus im kinda the second owner which is a bonus (i say kinda the second owner cos, the lady who bought it originally died, and in her will gave it to her ingrateful daughter who drove it around with bald (splintering) tyers, 6 kids in the back, no bracket on the battery (which i found out the hard way) front struts that were stuffed, no rear suspension and a passenger windscreen wiper that is busted on it's side and has scraped an unbuffable scratch in the window.

so yeah, the fact it was a celica had nothing to do with me buying it, i just saw an unreal car that has got plenty of potential for me to modify it however which way i want, and although to modify it body wise, may be to some people an "unholy" act, it's what i had planned for it all along, and there is no other car better to work off in my opinion.

i think the fact that everyone does something different with it, is testament to it's unique design. it's the same car, but everyone see's potential in it in different ways.


whow, that was long winded... i promise i won't do it again

[Updated on: Tue, 13 July 2004 08:52]