Freelica, $0.00, new trans, new life Options

[cheela]

When life hands you lemon, you make lemonade.
but what happens when life hands you a '96 5 speed celica ST, aka Freelica???

so, this thing just kinda almost literally fell into my hands. Thursday night my uncle hits me up on facepage and was like, "hey, i got this sitting in my yard, you interested?"

I'm like "swching! yea!" (but i didn't say the swching part)

so details are it was my cousin's car, they were driving heard a big noise? in the general engine bay/engine area and then it died. got it towed to my uncle's and it sat for 3 years. possibly spun bearings but we'll see once i dig into it some more.

Friday comes around, I'm like ok cool another celica would be nice to have to work on but I'm still kinda broke so i'll let it simmer for now. then my cousin was like, "eh yo, if nobody's interested, I'm junking it today!"

so I hit her up and was all like, "ey ho, i'm interested yo, how much ya want for it?"

she was like "free fiddy!" and I'm like free fiddy?, she's like yeah free dollars and fiddy. you just gotta tow it out and it's yours.
so she left the title with my uncle but forgot the key so that will be mailed to me.

so for the price of towing, i got me a freelica.

onto pick chars.

the pix my uncle sent me:





of course, first thing i do when it got dropped off was line up my green celi with it for a photoshoot. lol



then proceeded to clean the crap out of it.
BEFORE:

seats are trashed. had various smells of old pets and smoke.



seems to have taken a slight hit here. tail light's cracked and pushed in a bit...

came with a half torn apart system? lol

doors are typical of a midwest car. but seems to be the only bad rust i see on the body so far.

rear quarters looks surprisingly ok. this is the worst of it.


AFTER
gave it a quick wash to see what's left of the paint. hood's been spray canned and they didn't bother to mask anything so i had to spend some time scraping black overspray from the headlights and windshield....
she looks good from 30 maybe 20 ft.



dash cleaned up REALLY well. aside from the torn leather steering wheel (i have my stock one and a 3post to replace) and shifter, everything looks in relatively good shape.



I believe I should have an extra door panel to replace this if needed. there's dimples everywhere.

seats, I'll most likely trash. aside from having various stains and rips. the ever present smell of cigarettes just doesn't cut it for me and I still have my tan seats from my green one when I did the 7th gen interior swap.


overall, it only takes a bit of loving to make it able to sit next to my green one. they're both pretty happy I'd say


This post has been edited by cheela: Aug 27, 2019 - 12:03 PM

[richee3]

LOL, is that from another one of those Chris Hulk Smash incidents?

Yes, and he made that nut his b****! I’ll look around for the picture. If I recall correctly, it was an axle nuy and he bent my dad’s 1/2” SK ratchet. Didn’t even break a sweat!

[njccmd2002]

this is my favorite tool,



it literally attaches to every other tool i have, and can be used like a hammer, and prop tool.

you should try it...

[cheela]

hahah! yes! the wonder tool! so simple, yet so versatile.

[bloodMoney]

Yes, and he made that nut his b****! I’ll look around for the picture. If I recall correctly, it was an axle nuy and he bent my dad’s 1/2” SK ratchet. Didn’t even break a sweat!

SK is usually good quality stuff.... I thought I could get down on it. Apparently, I can't.

[richee3]

But it didn’t break!

[bloodMoney]

This is true.

[cheela]

well it's warmer out and the snow's melted off of Freelica. After installing JDM taiils, I scored some riser blocks for the cheap so I threw them on just for fun. It looks good on a black celi. not bad at all.

[CoolZeen]

yeap! looks allot better.

[narly_charley]

Truthfully a torch is my favorite tool, but an array of sledgehammers comes in a close second.

An oxy-acetylene setup was one of the first things I bought when we bought our first (current) house. My dad bought the setup from an old lady who's husband passed. Not sure of the exact tank sizes, but the oxygen tank is about chest height tall. Basically brand new Victor cutting torch and really nice old school (US made) regulators (can't remember the brand). I bought the setup (tanks are owned) for $100.

[richee3]

well it's warmer out and the snow's melted off of Freelica. After installing JDM taiils, I scored some riser blocks for the cheap so I threw them on just for fun. It looks good on a black celi. not bad at all.

Looking good! Hopefully you get this thing rolling soon. It would be fun to have a 5 speed for the summer.

An oxy-acetylene setup was one of the first things I bought when we bought our first (current) house. My dad bought the setup from an old lady who's husband passed. Not sure of the exact tank sizes, but the oxygen tank is about chest height tall. Basically brand new Victor cutting torch and really nice old school (US made) regulators (can't remember the brand). I bought the setup (tanks are owned) for $100.

Kinda hate you right now. I keep a close watch out for a torch set but all the used setups I see cost just as much as new. I have everything but the tanks and regulators left over from previous jobs but it’s not doing me any good right now.

[cheela]

yeap! looks allot better.

Thanks Zeen! you gotta start a progress thread on your celica too. I KNOW you've been buying parts left and right. I wanna see what you're up to.

Looking good! Hopefully you get this thing rolling soon. It would be fun to have a 5 speed for the summer.


Kinda hate you right now. I keep a close watch out for a torch set but all the used setups I see cost just as much as new. I have everything but the tanks and regulators left over from previous jobs but it’s not doing me any good right now.

yeah if the other one is gonna be down, this one needs to get up and running.

and I too am in need of that setup but am in the same predicament. used setups cost too much.

[richee3]

yeah if the other one is gonna be down, this one needs to get up and running.

Idea: Have a Midwest Meet/Southwest collaboration. You and Devin meet at my house and we’ll have a clutch swap party!

[cheela]

I guess I could push it there. lol

next midwest meet should be at my house.
I got a grill, plenty of parking, and lots of backroads with twisties. even got a bag of charcoal I can put in front of someone's celi.

[navseal345]

Deal!

[richee3]

Official Southwest Charcoal Bag Twisty Road Celica Push Tranny Swap of the Midwest is on. Now we just have to set a date.

[NgoFcukinWay]

Official Southwest Charcoal Bag Twisty Road Celica Push Tranny Swap of the Midwest is on. Now we just have to set a date.

February 30th.

[cheela]

Official Southwest Charcoal Bag Twisty Road Celica Push Tranny Swap of the Midwest is on. Now we just have to set a date.

February 30th.

dude, that's a thursday... seriously?

the 32th would be better. come on bruh!

[richee3]

the 32th would be better.

Thirty tooth.

[navseal345]

Martian time or GMT?

[cheela]

the 32th would be better.

Thirty tooth.

It looks better written out doesn't it?

Martian time or GMT?

probably martian time.