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![]() Enthusiast ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Joined Feb 2, '07 From Berlin, WI Currently Offline Reputation: 18 (100%) ![]() |
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. ![]() ![]() This post has been edited by cheela: Aug 27, 2019 - 12:03 PM -------------------- ![]() *1997 Celica ST - 3SGE Greytop BEAMS *1977 Celica RA29 - Classic Cruiser *2005 Matrix AWD - dedded but still hanging around like a ghost 2019 Rav4 XLE Premium - Sports mode is fun. |
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![]() Enthusiast ![]() Joined Dec 9, '14 From Juneau, Alaska Currently Offline Reputation: 3 (100%) ![]() |
What a great find! I got a 1994 from behind my neighbor's house for $300 back in 2008. it had a bad clutch and a couple other problems. it wasn't too hard to drop the transmission and change the clutch.
I drove the car until 2014 when a pizza delivery driver rear-ended me and totaled it. I used the insurance money to buy another one with a 3SGTE but I'd always wanted to fix the old one. Now I'm parting it out and junking it (see post on for sale area). Do you want a black carpet in good shape, stored inside for the last 3 years? I'll sell it to you cheap. I've got a bunch of other parts and plastics, wires, etc. if you need anything. |
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