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post Mar 10, 2013 - 8:21 AM
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saleenvic

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Hey what’s up everyone, my name is Vic. I've been a member for a few months now, but never really took the time to share my toy. Last year I scooped up a neat little 97 vert with 140k. Eh I probably did overpay for it - $5500, but what caught my attention most were the fact that it was a 2 owner car, (both prior owners were females) and it was maintained. It had a lot of parts replaced and even came with a brand new soft top recently installed. (only 1 month old/stock clutch though) Overall it was just a really clean looking car and I didn’t want to pass up on it. I knew how fun they were from past experience having bought 2 from auctions to flip. (part time hobby back in the day) I’ve actually had so many cars over my life that I wanted to take a break and told myself this one is remaining stock. Well, that didn’t really last. Shortly after I was telling my wife why I needed to do this and that do it lol. First thing was first, the old carpet had to go. It was originally tan but I switched it to black. Apparently nobody sells carpets for these so I had to buy one for a coupe, and then modify that one. So, I took the opportunity to clean the bottom frame and inspect for rust. All the speakers were blown so I upgraded those, but didn’t want anything crazy with amps or anything like that. Next came tint, I didn’t want to go too dark so I went with 35% all around. Interior bulbs were very dim, so I upgraded those with blue LED’s from SPREE and while I was at it, I upgraded to HIDs. (2 birds with one stone right?) Next came the body. I wanted to complement the natural curves, so I went with the ss-III look. Just clean and not out of place, it could use some massaging, but that’s for the body shop whenever I get it painted. Picked up a set of Curren taillights and hopefully in the next couple weeks I can get the ss-III front grille. Future projects are yet to be decided, but I’m not trying to go crazy with this since I’ve been thru that road before. I had a heavily modified mustang which I sold last year (owned it for 10+years) and cars at the end of the day are just a blackhole in your pocket lol. On a side note, you guys do great work with your projects, some really nice cars in here.









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- saleenvic   Intro   Mar 10, 2013 - 8:21 AM
- - mgnt232   welcome Thats not too bad of a deal for what yo...   Mar 10, 2013 - 9:05 AM
|- - saleenvic   QUOTE (mgnt232 @ Mar 10, 2013 - 9:05...   Mar 10, 2013 - 9:23 AM
|- - DEATH   QUOTE (saleenvic @ Mar 10, 2013 - 9...   Apr 3, 2013 - 9:38 AM
- - Tigawoods   i feel like we already know you around here, I was...   Mar 14, 2013 - 9:20 PM
|- - saleenvic   QUOTE (Tigawoods @ Mar 14, 2013 - 9...   Mar 18, 2013 - 2:02 PM
- - njccmd2002   Nice vert. I tought it was one of my old pics for...   Mar 14, 2013 - 9:53 PM
- - Rusty   welcome tidy celica, nice plate   Mar 15, 2013 - 12:29 AM


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