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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

Life basically. LMAO

I welcome the help. It's just me, I don't have any free weekends. Summer is way busy and I've had photo shoots and weddings every weekend so far. The little times after work is all I have to get **** done. If we can find a free weekend, you guys are more than welcome to stop by, if not then you'll be working on my car all by yourself which is fine by me. Lemme know, I'll leave you the keys and everything

Well think on the bright side, at least you're busy from gaining income to pay for hobbies you never have time for!

I know the feeling.

Also, I help you fix the car I don't fix the car for you. Think of it as a bit of a hand hold and training wheels so next time you can get yourself out of your own mess lol.

This post has been edited by Bitter: Aug 12, 2019 - 10:39 PM

It always seems to be a battle between time, money, and energy. When I was in college, I had all the time and energy in the world but was broke as a joke. Now I'm settled and have extra income but my time is all spent and so is my energy. such is life...



haha, yeah I know, that's why I cannot legitly ask you for help when I barely have time to help myself. I've always been a DIY kinda guy so don't worry I get you. hence why these projects take so long in the first place because I want to do it myself and learn from all my mistakes.

It looks like our next meet will be at (help me) Cheelas place. At least we know that we have 3 celicas officialy confirm and guarantee to be at that meet. And we know which one is going to have all the attention.

That would be nice. Transmission swap and BEAMS swap party meet. Hell, anyone that comes help me can take whatever extra parts I have laying aruond or take the blue car for more parts.

Reminds me of a quote, I think it was Gandhi, about how men spend all their youth acquiring wealth only to spend all their wealth in old age trying to acquire youth.

This post has been edited by Box: Aug 13, 2019 - 12:26 PM

I am down to fix celicas. So x3 on the wisconsin meet

This post has been edited by enderswift: Aug 13, 2019 - 6:00 PM

Sounds good to me as well, we come, we fix, we eat, we fix.

send me the gauge cluster pigtails please. kthx.

I'll even show up to stand around and be pretty as well as micromanage.

Breakfast egg rolls, lunch egg rolls, dinner egg rolls, egg roll egg rolls.

Hey, that's like assuming all white people eat is sour cream and mayonnaise and I certainly do not.

of course not. throw in a little bit of mustard just to give it a kick.

Damn, if y'all are serious, I'll have to find a weekend thats free.



Come on over and you can grab it yo self.



Sometimes assumptions and stereotypes are true.... in this case, yes, I could actually eat egg rolls morning, day, and night.

At this point, my car will be back up before yours is.... Get to work!

so i guess that instead of "garage rescue" is "barn rescue" for you. So lets do this fam. Lets choose a date. Cheela is on you to make it (time)happen.

yeah, yours probably will be back up before mine Chris.

once wedding season blows over I'll have more time to get **** done.
I got an engagement shoot after work today that's 2 hours away and then a wedding all day this weekend as well. Should be a small break between weddings after that one so hopefully next week or so I'll find some garage/barn time. *fingers crossed*