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Thanks! I think your GT4 is a much, much better example of a Celica though. Beats mine any day of the week. I just need to lower the car again and repaint a couple of things and the car will be looking exactly how I want it.




Yes, mine is OEM. It's the second Celica with a sunroof that I've had, and both have been identical. That's curious that yours goes up instead of in. I'm guessing the install was clean if you are just now wondering if it isn't OEM. I wouldn't mind seeing some pictures of your moonroof, especially of the panel inside your car just to see if they used an OEM panel or if they cut into the non sunroof panel. But it sounds like whatever they did, if it isn't OEM, looks good. But your interior is so clean! I miss having a black interior. My red Celi had a black interior, and when I bought this car, I was excited about having a tan interior. But it's always dirty, and not the kind of dirty that you can fix with a vacuum. I always need to shampoo it. It's always stained from something. I definitely miss my black interior because of that.

I got to looking at my tail lights tonight to try and figure out why the turn signals were amber instead of clear. They have definitely been painted. Whoever did it did a good job though. I really had to look, and I only found one imperfection. The paint is very even. The giveaway turned out to be where they actually cut into the lenses. Both sides fit back together perfectly, with no gaps or anything. Even so, as good a job as it looks like was done, I'll keep an eye on them for leaks. I only paid $140 shipped to my door, so I can't say I wasn't expecting something like this lol

This post has been edited by richee3: Sep 6, 2009 - 1:14 AM

Thanks man, I appreciate that. I definitely vowed to keep the interior good and clean because she's sitting outside in the heat & sun and it's taking a toll on the painted exterior plastics...slowly fading. But the interior shall remain beautiful.

I'll take some pics of the sunroof today...the install is very OEM-looking, and the switch might even be OEM. I'm just wondering why someone would go to so much trouble to have a sunroof installed, yet leave the rest of the car stock. The other option is that it is indeed OEM, yet the sunroofs between the ST and GT models differ...but I kind of doubt that.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Sep 6, 2009 - 12:20 PM

That's not it. My first Celica was a '96 ST hatch, with the same sunroof as my '98 GT hatch. The coupe may well have gotten a different sunroof, but I doubt if it did. I can almost see the roof panel in one of your pictures, and it looks as if somebody got their hands on the OEM sunroof panel. And if your switch is built in next to your dome light, then it is likely the factory switch. It really sounds like the previous owner wanted a sunroof in their car without looking tacky or out of place. And it sounds as though they did a god job.

That's exactly it, the switch is next to the dome light and looks factory (black with white lettering, Toyo-style) and the install is clean. Let me grab some pics.

Not clean,but what the hell:

This post has been edited by CelicaST_CALI: Sep 7, 2009 - 11:54 PM

^^thats a nice picture with the lights

well since I haven't posted a few in a while thought might aswell





This post has been edited by Rusty: Sep 8, 2009 - 2:39 AM

Great shots Rusty
From today, Herosblade came over to work on his car. We ended up washing our cars at my house. Car back up to semi rally height just for safety check. Its going back down, all the way down, after i get my safety check







This post has been edited by 808celica: Sep 8, 2009 - 3:24 AM

and 2 others from the same meet,

^ Looking real good.

@ 808: Your sideshot reminds me of a 7gen celica.
@ Rusty: More lowerness.

808
please dont. leave it like it was!!!

808...you took of the balla rims and are now switching to a TRD-style spoiler? WTF, mate?

Tom - great looking car, I love the black on white.

Safety check time of the year i cant pass the way i was



^^^see reason above and those are MR2 widebody TRD blades i have the center section inside my garage. you can see my 18's too in the b/g lolz kinda trying out the fensport gts spoiler fin look

This post has been edited by 808celica: Sep 8, 2009 - 3:37 PM

^^^^^

Looks AWESOME!

see my celica thread


I really like how that one turned out, getting better with the camera skills

Get the fronts tinted! How stable is the spoiler with the center post removed? Seems like it would be a lot more fragile.

The 3 post with the middle removed wont be going anywhere lol... Its really just one bolt while the sides have 2 each.

I know, I've taken off my spoiler before...I'm not worried about it flying off, I'm more worried about the spoiler itself flexing too much.