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Hey thanks for the welcome... Yea the front end definitely needs some paint... I probably will repaint the whole car when that time comes....

I LOVE those pics of those Currens above... I too wish they would have brought Currens to the states

Hey... Yea I will try to take some pics Saturday of the car and post them up here...

Can't wait to get the front end painted and see this baby shine

Hey guys,

I need to get the front of my Celica painted (3L2 Red) and I'm looking for some shops around Florence, SC that does good paintwork. I would like to get just the front matched up to the paintjob of the car to save the expense of repainting the whole car (the paint on the car is in great condition, the front had new parts and was spraypainted flat red) ....

Also, do you guys recommend just completely sanding the front of the car myself and then taking it there (I guess I'm asking would it be better to get all the spraypainted red off first) ......

Any tips/help provided would be appreciated....

PS... Yea I actually did take an old 1991 Camry to Maaco about 4 years ago in Florence, SC and they repainted the car. I have heard horror stories about Maaco but that car didn't fade or chip in the 4 years after I got it painted there; however this is a 1996 Celica and if I can find better quality elsewhere for maybe even a little more of the price... I would take it there instead.

Hey guys,

Just recently registered here and posted a question about an instrument cluster... Got some pretty quick responses and looks to be a great community here...

I currently own a 5th gen 1992 white Celica GTS I've had for about 1 1/2 years... Had a timing belt break on it due to the valve cover leaking fairly bad and saturated the timing belt... Got it all fixed and the distributor which also messed up... Still going strong (timing belt didnt bend any valves WHEW!)

Also just recently purchased a 1996 Celica 1.8L car.... It has a Curren frontend conversion .... Nice car... The Curren frontend needs to be painted which I planning on doing eventually (when I find somewhere that does a decent job at an OK price here in Florence, SC)

.... My first car was a 1991 Toyota Camry and after that I got a 1986 Nissan 300zx... That 300zx has been a GREAT car to me hardly giving me any problems at all over the years I've owned it and it currently has 219,000 miles on it (I still got it, but am going to finally sell it) ..... I had always liked Celica's though and Toyota cars in general... I finally got the 1992 Celica then the 1996 one this year...

Well just giving a short introduction of myself here... Hope that wasn't too long winded


BTW... The 1996 is a Celica ST Coupe... Dunno how I ended up putting GT Hatchback on the profile but I'm not seeing anywhere that I can change that... Probably just overlooking it haha.

Well the previous owner put a Japanese gauge cluster in it and I'd rather have the MPH as opposed to km/h.... He did include the old one so I just put the old one back in... Wasn't near as hard as I thought it would be... It is definitely going to be a couple of thousand miles off since he drove it with the japanese gauge for about 2k miles, but he calculated the mileage difference from the Japanese gauge to the difference from the American gauge and put that on the title...

Hey guys,

I have a 1996 Celica ST and am going to replace the instrument cluster. Is there any helpful guides to going about this procedure? Doesnt seem too complicated but I've never done it before and was just looking for a guide to help me in case I get stuck at some point.... Thanks for any information you can provide.