Why do you love your Celica? Options

[richee3]

Rick James, that's more than a lot of people can say. The head unit swap isn't too hard, but the front speakers take a little modification. It was pretty time consuming when I fabricated the brackets to mount my 6.5" speakers in an 8" hole, so you should be pretty proud of yourself! But yeah, mine is stock too, nothing wrong with that!

The reason I love my Celica is simple. It's all I have, and it's more than a lot of people have. Despite it's problems and all the grief it's caused me, I can call it my own. I want other cars, but the out of the options I had when I bought this car, the Celica is definitely the best car. Just think, I could be driving a late 90's Eclipse lol. Nothing against those, but they were just kinda cheaply built. So my Celica is more car than I could have ended up with.

[RickJamesBish]

^ Couldn't agree more...I could've looked longer and gotten something potentially better, but for a first car, I think this is damn fine. And I ended up getting some aftermarket brackets...the rears were a bitch to put in though.

Drove again today after a couple days of her sitting in the garage...and I just had a little reminder why I love her so much...drives smooth, handles lightly (accelerates lightly, sadly), but overall is awesome to drive. <3

[richee3]

After I wrecked my first Celica, there were a LOT of cars that I looked at and almost ended up getting, including a Supra, a 350Z, and an S2K. All of which I wanted VERY VERY BADLY. All of which I'd still rather have than is p.o.s. beater Celica that I ended up with. (My first Celica was a lot better.) But my parents decided to save my money... Funny, I worked for it but they got to spend it... -_- Could've driven 60 miles to get a Supra, my dream car, but instead we drove 300 miles to get a car that by my math, I've had to spend a LOT more on with repairs than any of the other cars would have cost me.

But for some strange reason that I can't explain, I love my incredibly slow, very expensive, highly unreliable, poor handling (it's hit a few too many pot holes and the steering isn't as tight as it should be,) always dirty, deer attracting Celica.

^^^ None of that is exaggerated. Except the part where I said I love it. Lol.

This post has been edited by richee3: Dec 8, 2008 - 10:27 PM

[RickJamesBish]

So why not get rid of it and look for a better Celica if you hate this one, but loved your other one?

[richee3]

Can't. The car is in my parents' name instead of my own, so I'm pretty much at their mercy with it. And they don't have to drive it and have never paid repairs on it, so they could care less about it and don't believe me anyway when something goes wrong. So I'm pretty much on my own with it. You'd think they'd notice that maybe my car actually IS broken down when I'm being forced to borrow their cars.

Besides, even if I could sell it and get another car, I had about $15,000 saved up when I bought this car. I was doing alright for myself, and bought this. I paid $7400 for this car, so in theory I had plenty of money left. But all the rest of that is gone to repairs and now I'm completely broke.

If I would have known that, I would have just done a BEAMS swap right as soon as I got the car.

This post has been edited by richee3: Dec 9, 2008 - 4:59 PM