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[Oreo20]

How did you obtain your celica and are you so attached to it if so why??? is this your first car?

I bought mine almost a year ago it was 3 hours from where i live in austin Tx
it was really beat up but i bought it for anyways for 1300$ and now its like a part of my life (:

[sandusky1977]

I bought my 94 Celica GT,. in March 2009,. it was around my 20 or 30th car

Here is what she looked like when I brought her home.



The back story, in 2000-2001 I was a Toyota New Car Sales Rep. I'd come from the home improvement industry where I was required to drive an American car, so I was driving a 97 Cutlass at the time.
I'd grown up in a GM family, but had always felt that Toyota and Honda made far superior vehicles. So I worked selling brand new toyota vehicles, and fell in love with the Gen 6 Celica, even though at the time I couldn't afford one.

Fast forward a couple of years, to 2009,. well I guess that is a bunch of years, and it was time to replace yet another GM product, my 98 Pontiac Grand Prix. So, after a day or two of looking I had realized that Celica's were now in my price range. So for about a month I kept looking over all the craigslist's in my state, and low and behold there it was.

I showed up for an ad stating that it was a 95 Celica GT,. clean title, runs and drives great $1800.

When I arrived it was obvious that it was in ok, to slightly rough condition, but at the time it only had 116k miles, so I came to a better price and paid the man. Later that day I was back with a friend, and drove it home. When I went to register it, I noticed the title actually said it's a 1994,. not a 1995,. like I had thought,. oh well,. oh, and it's a salvage title.

After driving it for around 100k miles, it was getting a little hard to keep on the road for my now 135 mile round trip daily commute, it was a hot summer day with no ac, and I decided it was time to start looking for a replacement DD. After looking for a few days, I found a 2000 Toyota Celica GT, it was an Auto, and the driver's door had been folded against the drivers fender and wouldn't close. The guy was asking just 1600,. so I said sure,. I'll take it for $1200,. and drove it home the next day.

What a giant piece of garbage, let me just say I hate the Gen 7 Celica... after fixing the door, and finding/replacing most of the plastic interior pieces, I threw it up for sale and took the first $2500 that came my way,. Well, I thought, maybe it's time to buy a commuter sized car.

So in March 2012, I bought a 1999 Toyota Solara V6 with a 5-speed manual,. something I had wanted since working at the Toyota dealership, it was the color and option package I wanted and it had a bad clutch so it was priced to sell at $2000,. so, I hooked up the trailer, and drove the 100 miles away to look at it,. it was in ok shape, so I offered them $1600,. and after they kicked it around for what seemed like forever, it was loaded up and on it's way back to the shop,...

All was ok,. it has ok power, and looks ok, but the Solara is a "REALLY BORING CAR",. so I decided to start looking again, and on day two of the prospecting, I found this,....


1999 Toyota Celica GT,. Manual,. 95k Miles., it was listed at $4200,. well there was no way I was paying that, but the pictures were awesome, so I set an appointment to go see it after work,. well I showed up and it was as nice in person as it looked online,. so I offered them $3000, and they said no thanks,. well we came to an amicable deal and I drove it away,.

So,. at this point I had (2) Gen 6 Celica,. 94 and a 99,.

Well, then last week, I was looking for some Toyota parts, and I found this,...



So,. I'm a Celica whore now,. and will be until I can afford to build a Supra MKIV,. at which point I will probably drop down to just two,. one V6 swapped,. and hopefully one GT-Four at some point.