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Today I, agreed to buy another 6gc, I know it's a sickness, however, I'll be using this for parts for my other cars.

Today I, agreed to buy another 6gc, I know it's a sickness, however, I'll be using this for parts for my other cars.


Also, I found a Carbon Fiber Hood, that I should be picking up this weekend. I don't know if I will use it, but the Red Dragon could use the clearance when I swap the motor and it is a stupid good deal.

Hmm, apparently banks must like to take time before giving out money. They should hurry before I change my mind again. I got to thinking on what all I'll have to do the next car I get to bring it to where the Celica is now and I'm just not really feeling it. Part of me wants to say screw it all and buy this:
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Who needs a car when you can have a ginormous synthesizer more prone to breakdowns than I am? We'll get along great. God forbid I find one before a Supra though... I really wouldn't do something so irresponsible, perhaps... So yeah, anticipation... I think it's really happening this time. Which in a way I'm glad, but in a way I'm not. It's not like the Celica is a bad car or anything, it's just slow and red. Mainly red. My horrendous fear is not finding a car and/or ending up with a real piece of garbage. That's how Murphy works, I hate him. Buying a 22-28 year old car notorious for blowing its head-gasket, nothing can go wrong. Now am I just making reasons not to sell it? I really am the most indecisive person in the world. I tried to find a coffee mug that said something along those lines, then I remembered I'm more of a tea person anyway. Either way they should hurry about it, I'm not exactly ecstatic about selling the car. If anything I agreed to sell it to make a complete and total stranger happy, I don't know why I should care. I remember being that age, finding that first car. Not having mommy and daddy to buy something for me like the rest of the kids at school. Most of them ended up totaling their cars anyway, ingrates. He's been saving up for awhile from what I can tell, working shifts after school. Should've seen the truck his dad was driving, sounded like it was falling apart as it left the driveway... Nice people though... I saw myself, to finally have something go his way was in my hands. How could I crush what he'd been working towards? I don't see exactly what it is that makes him want it so much, but it's more than I want it I think. Well, I'll get a few more late night drives at least.

I really wish I had the money to fix my 6th gen; I know the guy would give it back to me if I did. I really freaking miss it. I love my 5GC to death, but I have so many memories in my 6GC. Id be willing to give up my '93 for an alltrac, but Id spend the money to get the '95 back and convert into a GT4 then buy one.

Mildly tempting.

So got back from another hour or so drive. Nothing like "Comfortably Numb" to set the mood. I imagine will hear from him early this afternoon wanting to arrange a time to buy the car this weekend. Then the hunt begins...wooo....fun....not.... I have to prepare a farewell speech and all that as well, this is really too much trouble. Then after finding a new car have to fix all the wrong things, and find the best forum for said car. Then I might even have to start going to meets, it's terrible. How I envy the people content with owning a Ford Aspire or some other giant piece of garbage. Like my cousin drives a pos KIA Sephia that was like a few hundred dollars, and is content. Then again my other cousin has an ES300 and is content, at least it's a nice FWD sedan though. I can't be content, I can always find something wrong somewhere with anything. Rampant OCD, yes. Asperger's, quite possibly.

I'll stick around, just need to get the mods to make an "Other Car Projects" sub-forum.

There's always the possibility of buying another Celica, but I don't think it'd be for performance. The Supra tick for tack will always outperform, outside of perhaps snow and ice which doesn't exist here. Maybe grab another in the future if I need a long distance commuter as the MPG of the Supra isn't spectacular. That or I get to the stage of dropping a 1UZ into the Supra I'll need a second car in which case I'd grab another ST perhaps. The '88 I had was titled as a Celica Supra, even though by then they were separate models. So technically...

Been thinking, and an '89-92 NA would suit me just fine provided it's not red and has gray or black interior. Already know how to drop 100 pounds without effecting the car at all, and 40 pounds of it is sprung weight. Then if I want to sacrifice some luxury I can drop another 50 or so pounds without terribly effecting the car's comfort. Redoing the exhaust is top priority as the factory exhaust is heavy and restrictive. Since I have to redo the head-gasket anyway I'll bump it up to 12:1 compression ratio, 12.5:1 is max on pump fuel so 12:1 leaves room for any re-shaves in the future. Pacesetter makes a full length header for it, so would probably do that as well especially if I raise compression. Looked at cams and they're ungodly expensive, for what they cost alone I'm not too far off from a 1UZ swap kit and finding a 1UZ is easy. So it'll be in the mid-low 6's to 60, which is more than enough since I'm not drag racing it. Certainly better than what I currently live with. Of course finding a Turbo will bring different, but for the most part the same mods. I'm actually starting to look forward to this I think. Either that or a '79-81 Trans Am pops up in halfway running condition and I'll be forced to buy it, I can't help it.