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Today I reset the air/fuel ratio. Nice easy task for Easter Sunday. Took the car for a short drive beforehand and for a long drive afterwards with my girlfriend. Some noticieble effects. Idles much smoother, and the throtle seems more responsive.(maybe just placebo effect) Hopefully the fuel efficiency got bumped up a notch. Already great, but who doesn't want to go to the gas station even less? Found some new fun roads. Some up hill, some down, all twisty and at various speed limits. All in all, a great day to own a Celica.

Hello, new to the forum and this is my first post. No better way to introduce myself than to explain how I got my 1st Celica and wound up on this site.

I had a 2001 Chevy Cavalier LS that I got a great deal on for about 4 years. It needed about $200 worth of parts and labor every year. I was fine with this because it was reliable, gas efficient, and had over 230k miles on it which was pretty cool for a Chevy. A couple months ago both CV joints went, the CD player, heat/AC did not work along with other small problems. Basically it was a running 'totaled' car. Poked around the internet and found the best offer for scrap. Tow truck came by, I pried off the hood emblem like I do with all my scrapped cars, and it was never seen again.

My girlfriend and I live and work together so for a couple months we used her car to get around. I kept my eyes and ears open. I was looking for a fun 2 door. Maybe a Prelude or Integra. I see plenty of them around here in Ohio, but not many for sale. Or for sale in my price range. On one of my daily scourings of Craigslist I came across a 1994 Celica ST hatchback. It was red, which I did not like much. But it looked to be in decent shape and had 153k miles. My girlfriends mom has a 1996 GT that I've always admired. The car was about an hour away and on a Sunday we went to look at it. The paint has a few spots where the clear coat is pealing on the driver side. Driver side tail light had a small hole in the lens, but all lights worked. The front seats were a little beat up, stained and torn. No driver side sun visor.(If you have one, let me know you can part with, let me know.) A little rust in the wheel wells. No hood emblem. It drove great, and everything worked aside from the CD player. The guy wanted $1k for it, I asked if he would take $900 and I drove it away that day.

Got home and bought a driver side tail light, hood emblem, and front seat covers on Ebay. Can't wait to do more work to it. The car has grown on me very fast and I don't even mind the color of it.
Here is a pic of it 5 minutes after I bought it.