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post Mar 10, 2005 - 6:36 PM
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I own a 95 GT Convertible. Little did I know when I opened the door panel, it had a sticker saying top was installed in california. I then found out all the celica's came oversees with hardtops- then chopped off in the states and made into a convertible. This sounds very shady. I have a tough time believing toyota actually reinforced the structure as well. Ive has so many problems with the "aftermarket" convertible. If I knew toyota outsourced this to some company, I would have never bought this convertible. The fact is was a hard top transformed into convertible makes me wonder how safe the car really is..

Can anyone confirm celica was reinforced??
 
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post Apr 4, 2005 - 11:48 PM
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no i meant that its colder in the snow!! and that i hate having a convertible in the snow where its worthless(bad choice of words but i dont know wat other word to use)! can wait for summer

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- nitemare   Convertibles- Are they really reinforced?   Mar 10, 2005 - 6:36 PM
- - madmods   QUOTE(nitemare @ Mar 10, 2005 - 11:36 PM)I ow...   Mar 10, 2005 - 6:51 PM
|- - saleeka   And yes Coomer you are right- there are 202 verts,...   Mar 10, 2005 - 10:02 PM
|- - jgreening   QUOTE(saleeka @ Mar 10, 2005 - 10:02 PM)And y...   Mar 10, 2005 - 10:17 PM
- - Coomer   Are you sure that they were shipped over here as c...   Mar 10, 2005 - 6:51 PM
|- - madmods   QUOTE(Coomer @ Mar 10, 2005 - 11:51 PM)Are yo...   Mar 10, 2005 - 6:54 PM
- - shid   Coomer, ASC is in Arizona. They were shipped here ...   Mar 10, 2005 - 7:48 PM
- - 2003cbgts   dont mean to hijack this thread, but how durable i...   Mar 10, 2005 - 9:07 PM
- - Insanity-74   All convertables arrive in the US as hard tops, th...   Mar 10, 2005 - 9:31 PM
- - saleeka   A company called Griffen (sp) made the 2nd gen. co...   Mar 10, 2005 - 9:39 PM
- - DamDirtyApes   but why put a roof on only to cut it off..?   Mar 10, 2005 - 9:43 PM
- - jgreening   Wow. I have never seen a thread with so much misi...   Mar 10, 2005 - 9:48 PM
|- - madmods   QUOTE(jgreening @ Mar 11, 2005 - 2:48 AM)Wow....   Mar 10, 2005 - 10:02 PM
||- - jgreening   QUOTEI cant agree with you on the rails in the bot...   Mar 10, 2005 - 10:15 PM
||- - madmods   QUOTE(jgreening @ Mar 11, 2005 - 3:15 AM)QUOT...   Mar 10, 2005 - 10:49 PM
||- - jgreening   QUOTE(madmods @ Mar 10, 2005 - 10:49 PM)QUOTE...   Mar 10, 2005 - 10:52 PM
||- - madmods   QUOTE(jgreening @ Mar 11, 2005 - 3:52 AM)QUOT...   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:21 PM
|- - Insanity-74   QUOTE(jgreening @ Mar 10, 2005 - 9:48 PM)Wow....   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:27 PM
||- - jgreening   QUOTE(Insanity-74 @ Mar 10, 2005 - 11:27...   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:44 PM
|- - nitemare   QUOTE(jgreening @ Mar 10, 2005 - 7:48 PM)...   Mar 11, 2005 - 1:23 PM
|- - jgreening   QUOTE(nitemare @ Mar 11, 2005 - 1:23 PM)QUOTE...   Mar 11, 2005 - 1:48 PM
|- - nitemare   Do you have a 95-97 nightmare or 98-99? The reaso...   Mar 11, 2005 - 4:38 PM
|- - madmods   95 is the year I got..So I guess toyota noticed ...   Mar 12, 2005 - 12:51 AM
|- - blu94gt   95 is the year I got..So I guess toyota noticed ...   Apr 3, 2005 - 2:27 AM
- - saleeka   ha thanks... If you have model breakdown/history/e...   Mar 10, 2005 - 10:32 PM
- - orvillescelica   im not part of any arguement on the rigidity of th...   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:18 PM
- - jgreening   I will post them. I want to say one more thing to...   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:21 PM
- - Drocay   QUOTE(madmods @ Mar 10, 2005 - 10:49 PM)The p...   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:22 PM
|- - madmods   QUOTE(Drocay @ Mar 11, 2005 - 4:22 AM)QUOTE(m...   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:31 PM
- - madmods   Hey, I found this pic after a lot of looking. Ther...   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:46 PM
|- - jgreening   QUOTEHey, I found this pic after a lot of looking....   Mar 10, 2005 - 11:49 PM
|- - madmods   QUOTE(jgreening @ Mar 11, 2005 - 4:49 AM)QUOT...   Mar 11, 2005 - 12:17 AM
- - shid   ASC is NOT in Arizona? Where in gods name did I ge...   Mar 11, 2005 - 12:28 AM
|- - madmods   QUOTE(shid @ Mar 11, 2005 - 5:28 AM)ASC is NO...   Mar 11, 2005 - 12:29 AM
- - saleeka   ok- here is a pic of my car that has the best view...   Mar 11, 2005 - 1:15 AM
- - Drocay   yup, thats it thats wut i was talking about.   Mar 11, 2005 - 1:24 AM
- - madmods   Thanks for the pics bro. Thats not the bar Im talk...   Mar 11, 2005 - 1:31 AM
- - madmods   Heres some old pics, but there not good. I will ta...   Mar 11, 2005 - 1:40 AM
- - saleeka   i do see that... the bottom pic shows it best... a...   Mar 11, 2005 - 1:52 AM
- - bloodrain   I called up a shop (Mad Mods in florida) to see if...   Mar 11, 2005 - 12:42 PM
- - shid   You think 7 years is a bad lifespan for a soft top...   Mar 11, 2005 - 1:55 PM
|- - saleeka   Toyota, as with 95% of all the other convertibles ...   Mar 12, 2005 - 2:39 AM
- - DamDirtyApes   why would they just cut the tops off, isnt that aw...   Mar 11, 2005 - 2:07 PM
- - 2003cbgts   anything we can put on our tops to better protect ...   Mar 11, 2005 - 3:18 PM
- - lil_lissa   i love my convertible celi and wouldn't trade ...   Mar 12, 2005 - 12:37 PM
- - 2003cbgts   ^^^ cool.. so most of you guys are happy with your...   Mar 12, 2005 - 4:50 PM
- - Mr_E   Sorry, the convertables in the US are standard tin...   Mar 12, 2005 - 7:29 PM
- - shid   Mr E, I'm pretty sure toyota did NOT make vert...   Mar 12, 2005 - 10:41 PM
|- - Mr_E   QUOTE(shid @ Mar 12, 2005 - 10:41 PM)Mr E, I...   Mar 17, 2005 - 6:37 AM
- - saleeka   the only toyota convertibles that have been made a...   Mar 12, 2005 - 11:10 PM
- - jgreening   so what happened to all those pics showing the dif...   Mar 17, 2005 - 2:35 AM
|- - madmods   QUOTE(jgreening @ Mar 17, 2005 - 7:35 AM)so w...   Mar 17, 2005 - 5:59 PM
|- - jgreening   QUOTE(madmods @ Mar 17, 2005 - 5:59 PM)QUOTE(...   Mar 17, 2005 - 6:00 PM
- - FallenHero   somebody needs to take a second gen MR2 to be conv...   Mar 18, 2005 - 1:00 AM
|- - Mr_E   QUOTE(FallenHero @ Mar 18, 2005 - 1:00 AM)som...   Mar 18, 2005 - 3:13 AM
|- - red_94gts   QUOTE(FallenHero @ Mar 18, 2005 - 6:00 AM)som...   Mar 18, 2005 - 8:23 PM
- - madmods   Ok these pictures will put an end to this. yes the...   Mar 19, 2005 - 3:30 AM
- - creis   thoes welds are crap, talk about "shady...   Mar 19, 2005 - 12:01 PM
- - carlosfandango   thats a great thread. enjoyed reading the tech in...   Apr 1, 2005 - 8:25 PM
- - coughdrop   Hiya I have a Toyota Press Release from 1994 whe...   Apr 2, 2005 - 6:27 AM
- - madmods   Cooool I rest my case   Apr 2, 2005 - 6:10 PM
- - creis   my chiltons repair manual seems to tell a diff. st...   Apr 2, 2005 - 6:49 PM
- - jgreening   The valving is different in the struts - probably ...   Apr 2, 2005 - 7:03 PM
- - droptopGT   droptops RULE   Apr 4, 2005 - 2:15 AM
- - juBz86   yea!! but they suck in snow   Apr 4, 2005 - 11:16 PM
|- - jgreening   QUOTE(juBz86 @ Apr 4, 2005 - 11:16 PM)yea...   Apr 4, 2005 - 11:24 PM
- - juBz86   no i meant that its colder in the snow!! a...   Apr 4, 2005 - 11:48 PM
- - jgreening   QUOTE(juBz86 @ Apr 4, 2005 - 11:48 PM)no i me...   Apr 5, 2005 - 12:06 AM


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