Freelica, $0.00, new trans, new life Options

[cheela]

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. they're both pretty happy I'd say


This post has been edited by cheela: Aug 27, 2019 - 12:03 PM

[bloodMoney]

What are you looking to get for it (General price.... I know my price is free.99)?

And how is the body outside of the rusty doors?

[cheela]

Damn! She's a keeper now.

nah.... no more 7As for me.

What are you looking to get for it (General price.... I know my price is free.99)?

And how is the body outside of the rusty doors?

probably $1500 high end with all the goodies
-2 post spoiler + riser blocks
-HIDs
-3 post steering wheel
-TRD springs + KYB struts
-KNN intake
etc

$1100 lowball lol

body is typical midwest condition. doors are shot. driver's floor drain hole is rusted out as well as spare tire drain hole. dings and dents everywhere else but interior and engine are clean and healthy. trans + clutch from Jake's old blue celi so semi-new. engine upgrades from my old 7A as well.

[Bitter]

Chris is gearing up to get a learner car for the kids already.

[bloodMoney]

Nah... I've got too much else going on right now.

But I ALWAYS have to ask, because it's an illness.

[cheela]

haha. I'm sure Freelica wouldn't mind if Theo took it for a spin.

and yeah I hear ya Chris, fixing this one up to sell just so I can have room to buy another. lol

[Bitter]

haha. I'm sure Freelica wouldn't mind if Theo took it for a spin.

and yeah I hear ya Chris, fixing this one up to sell just so I can have room to buy another. lol

https://greenville.craigslist.org/ctd/7087135225.html
Next project, interior swap and stick shift swap and add a turbo/2C-T/3C-T swap.

This post has been edited by Bitter: Mar 19, 2020 - 8:01 AM

[bloodMoney]

https://greenville.craigslist.org/ctd/7087135225.html
Next project, interior swap and stick shift swap and add a turbo/2C-T/3C-T swap.

That's a hard pass for me.

[cheela]

haha. I'm sure Freelica wouldn't mind if Theo took it for a spin.

and yeah I hear ya Chris, fixing this one up to sell just so I can have room to buy another. lol

https://greenville.craigslist.org/ctd/7087135225.html
Next project, interior swap and stick shift swap and add a turbo/2C-T/3C-T swap.

[TimeslideZ]

Because wagon is also life!



I do miss my wagon, that was a blast to drive.

[Bitter]

haha. I'm sure Freelica wouldn't mind if Theo took it for a spin.

and yeah I hear ya Chris, fixing this one up to sell just so I can have room to buy another. lol

https://greenville.craigslist.org/ctd/7087135225.html
Next project, interior swap and stick shift swap and add a turbo/2C-T/3C-T swap.

You'd be the coolest kid in town rollin coal from a Corolla!

[navseal345]

The... Coalrola

[Bitter]

The... Coalrola

I thought of that immediately after posting but was too lazy, I knew someone would pick up my slack and was not let down!

[cheela]

just sold today. good bye Freelica.

#NoLongerFree
#Freelica4ever
#meh

[TimeslideZ]

just sold today. good bye Freelica.

#NoLongerFree
#Freelica4ever
#meh

Does that mean this thread dies, or your next one is coming here?

[cheela]

I'll probably start a new thread since the next one probably won't be free so it can't be Freelica any more.

[Bitter]

Was it sold to a member or a future member?

[cheela]

Future member hopefully. I did get them to join the FB page and tell them about the 6 or so peeps on here so hopefully they'll head on over one of these days.

[njccmd2002]

NEW THREAD NAME:

HOW TO BETRAY A CAR IN 13 PAGES......

[cheela]

NEW THREAD NAME:

HOW TO BETRAY A CAR IN 13 PAGES......

You mean, "How to turn a 24 year old rust bucket into quick cash"