Sleekcelica's progress thread., Sold, so sad. Options

[SleekCelica]

So I bought this car from a guy in beaufort, who, to be honest, treated her like crap. He fought with trailer hitches, and the whole nine yards. It also had an intermittent stalling issue. She had 4 blistered tires, two bad front wheel bearings, a really bad paint job, two bad cv axles, a badly wired IAC, a disconnected tps to make up for the bad IAC (that's what he said. No litterally, he said that to me), a failing clutch slave and master cylinder, and more stuff... You get the point. This car was definitely not in it's prime years. What's ironic is, there have been three owners, including me. The first lady bought this off the showroom floor, and treated it so well. routine maintenance, Toyota dealership for everything, etc, etc. She got a new engine put in her in 2001, fully rebuilt. And then the second owner bought it from her. That's when things went downhill. Then I bought it from the second guy, he wanted 1000 for her, and I talked him down to 800. He let me test drive her, and that's where I found some problems. But I instantly fell in love with her when I saw her. I signed the title, and was off at about 10 o clock at night, in a 5 speed I've never driven before, that had the worst tires/wheel bearings ever. My brother had taken me there in his teg, and decided he wanted to go like 90 miles and hour. lol.
this is how she looked when i got her :

I began the restoration process. I did a tune up, put some new spark plugs in, did an oil change, etc. I was tired of not having a radio, so I decided to install one:

Then I found out that head unit didn't work so I put in a crappier one:

I decided it was time for a new exhaust, and working in an exhaust shop, I could get one for pretty cheap. At first, I went for the fart can idea, but I didn't like it. So what did I do? I put a cherrybomb on it, dumped it right in the middle of the bottom of the car. I'll get pics of the actual exhaust later:

I saw Tigawood's progress thread, and I loved the white steelies idea, so I did that too. I put in my own aftermarket touch with an A pillar mounted volt gauge.

A more recent interior pic:

I started painting parts of the car, hoping it could cover up the lousy clear coat peeling. I built a strut tower brace, and did some other minor mods to her.

A shot with the other celica in the neighborhood:

Time for paint! Rustoleum deep blue automotive paint, with newly blacked out goodies!



This post has been edited by SleekCelica: Oct 26, 2010 - 5:02 PM

[HectortheRican]

Looking good!