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Ok I lied to get you to look at the thread...but I did just buy a 1998 Celica GT convertible!

I'd been wanting a DD since driving the Evo x is insane for a dd and not fuel efficient in any way shape or form, and I am moving to Texas so I wanted a convertible. I saw this celica on the toyota lot with a sumptuous price tag and 39,000 original miles, one previous owner, all that good stuff. I had no idea what it truly was though, just bought it seeing it in the light of 'a cheap convertible'...

But on the way home I was cruising along and thinking...'this is the most enjoyable car I have ever owned!' It just has soul. Idk what it is about the car, but it feels alive. I don't care that it's slow, there's just something else to this car. I get home to see it has an extremely devoted cult following, dubbed the best celica of them all, Edmunds said debatably the best car of all time...and I just felt like the luckiest person in the world getting such a hot-looking, great priced, great feeling, reliable car

some questions, then pics.

1.) bought Eibach sportline lowering springs (1.5's...this car does need a drop...) and hope it's ok to put them on the stock setup. Anyone done this?

2.) is it possible to have the trunk inaccessible when the top is down? seems like anyone can just reach in and open it. Sebrings and bimmers and pretty much everything else require the key to be in the ignition to open the trunk from the inside

3.) my trunk won't open WITH the key lol. does that happen a lot?

4.) Antenna is busted, how do I get that eyesore off of there?

Thanks! here are the pics.
celica . com / forums was so dead that not one person even said hi when i made a thread there. So please say hi at least. Glad to have this awesome car and be part of the Toyota community!

Very nice
Welcome!

The T20 is the crown jewwel of all Celicas i totally love this generation (That's why I have two of them and been a T20 owner the last 10 years )



Can you turn the key ? if not it's probably just the lock that is full of dirt, have had that problem on both my current Celicas..



Busted as in "crushed" or just don't work ?

If it just dont work it often can be fixed by oiling and force move it, you spray some thin penetrating oil in it (from the top) and then turn it on while you pulling it, and then spray more and
turn it off and piush it in, and then again, as soon as you see dirt, remove it with a cloth and spray more..

I done this to many broken electric antennas, it is a stupid construction, at least here in Sweden where we have snow and rain pretty much..

If this fails or the antennatube is crushed, toyota have the antennantube and the pushrod as a sparepart so you can change it and don't have to buy a whole new antenna.


The T20 cab is beautiful, unfortunatly it was never sold in Sweden, some people have been importing them, but they are very rare to see here.

.....wait a minute, thats not a LP670-4

welcome to the site!

Grab a set of aftermarket shocks to help smooth out the lowering. Lowering springs on your stock shocks may cause for an uncomfortable ride later down the road

Get some KYB struts to go with the springs and call it a day. Very clean vert you have! Might want to do the S2000 antenna mod: http://www.6gc.net/howto/install_s2000_antenna That and find some JDM Curren tail lights. It won't take long before you'll want to do all this and more.

Welcome to the 6GC forums! The only way out now is in a pine box

Theres quite a few 6GCers in the Houston area btw

Eibach sportlines, love'em. Work great on stock.

Welcome!

Pretty sweet Evo you have there as well.

TY all! rave2n, yeah I got the sportlines, glad to hear they work well on stock. I don't wanna spend the money for aftermarket shocks or coilovers...I've thrown so much money at the Evo, and I've SWORN that the k&n, springs, and s2k antenna will be my only mods. Maybe rims too. Why not an axleback. Hell forged internals ad a ball bearing too... ::mod bug bites again::

and ty glenn for all the input.

Ok, for the life of me, I cannot get this antenna off...

Some 7th gen GTS 16" wheels would look nice on there.