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you'll never get back what you put into it, just make sure you consider that. But think of it this way when I see that car I couldn't imagine my father driving that it looks like something a kid drives you're right on that, but if it makes you happy who cares what others think.

pave the driveway perhaps. i'm in the process of getting an estimate on that myself. a paved driveway counts as equity and should increase the value of your house.

i'm 31 as well and really want to spend money on making my car better, but houses have a prodigious thirst for thousands of dollars.

other things to think about:
1) typically american males have a midlife crisis. retaining your sports car would make such a crisis easier to complete.
2) i have a friend who is 82 (not a typo, eighty-two), a few years back he gave away his sensible hybrid sedan and bought an rx8.

I am looking for a four door tacoma to do everything I need and be a perfect daily mix of room and hauling and sporty enough to make me not miss all my cars and all the bs that seems to follow someone into the car scene. I tend to get bored I guess and just want to build something new all the time but every car scene is not different from the other. I just don't like the hating on each other I see everywhere and it is stupid. Even on this site where everyone is supposed to love the celica I see posting all the time where people hate on others for doin diff mod choices. Why?
You guys probably don't know ( some of you do) I have owned about 44 different cars and built some wild rides. I was doing swaps way way back in the day! Way before all the hold your hand how to swap a motor write-ups. Us old guys figured stuff out by trying parts and finding out it fit or not. The young guys i get looks from dont realize us old guys paved the way for all them to just go and read step by step swap threads. Some quick examples of my cars so you know I got a variety in my background...I have Built three mr2s, swapped a few gc imprezas, built a mean wrx, 3000gt, a supra that I put a huge turbo on and enjoyed the targa top! Built a custom turbo kit for a v6 eclipse from scratch. Built a turbo kit for a buddy who had a focus and the list goes on. I've gone drift style and built a s14 240 that I swapped a skyline rb25 motor into and put a nasty big turbo on it as well. I can build anything and I do all the work myself so it don't cost me anything as far as labor. Just parts! But anyway, after all the diff cars i built nonmatter what it was if it was sporty or fast or beat up cause I rallied it in the woods and hauled a huge picnic table on its roof...it was a turbo legacy, um ya. The moral of the story is that Someone will always hate on you or your car when you have something that stands out. maybe I'm going to just blend in to avoid all the negative bs. I will miss the positive tho!

I'll tell you straight up,

if I saw your Celica, I would think wow...some 16yr old trying to look like cool or trying to look like 2fast 2furious.
I would be embarrassed to drive that car at my current age of 22, let alone 31!

It's not the car that's the problem, it's how you made the car look.

Return the body to stock with some nice wheels and then it'd be much more clean and presentable.

i agree, make it look clean not flashy. celicas can suit anyone if they are made to suit the person

I built the car when I was 20. The stuff I did was actually cool way back that long ago! Just isn't as cool now. It's done 100% the right way which is what really matters to me. No cutting corners doing things halfazz is what makes it cool even if the style is not up to date.

So now all u got to do is bring it back to speed. Excuse to work on it, if still dont like it then sell it. No sense to keep thinking....

I understand. So 10 years ago would bring us right around the time of Fast & Furious. Explains everything.

Well anyway...Why not redo it to bring it up to date? Even just a different front bumper/body kit, get rid of that gaudy wing and some nicer wheels would do wonders.

Make sure you check the frame if you end up buying a tacoma. We had at least 10+ come in for new frames at work because of rust issues.

^ always been an issue with toyota trucks... engine runs forever, but the frame doesn't. hmmm

Even on the new tacomas?
I thought that was just a big problem on the 2000 and earlier trucks. (or right before they switched to the enw style tacomas whatever year that is)

Your setup isn't that bad even for today. The paint and that wing do have to go. I've been into cars just as long as you have. I'm now 29 and started when I was 16, but my taste and setup has always been the clean stock look with slight mods (mostly factory performance body panels or JDM). I never liked anything that didn't fit right or require bondo or any sort of body modifications. If anything, just get a GT4 wing and change the paint to something cleaner and less F&F.

I liked the movies but dang I hate it for what it did to the car scene during the early 2000's. The worst being the sequel and how it portray the car modding scene as a colorful party club like life just bother me so much.

I dread that day will someday hit me too..sigh. then no more motorcycle or car