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Great color choice!

wow thats a bit of a transformation. looking forward to seing it mated up with the st bumper

Thank's richee3, I'm glad that I decided for this color. I was choosing from a dark grey/green metallic, lexus blue metallic, and this mica red from lexus. I was looking for colors of other car makes, but found nothing of my taste.



Thank's mate.
I'm curious about how the modified hood will look together with the ST bumper. Unfortunatelly the car i pretty far away from my home, so I can't check the progress every day. But next Wednesday I may know more. And may also have some new pictures. I hope no problems will occur till then.

AAAHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!It burned my eyes man!!!

That is INTENSE!!!Can't wait to see it with everything installed!!!

This post has been edited by kavy: Mar 6, 2011 - 6:57 PM

I have a metallic blue Lexus (Intensa Blue Pearl IS 300) and let me tell you, it's a great color. But I don't think it would work on a Celica. It just isn't the right shade of blue. The color you picked looks great and fits the car a lot better than this blue pearl. I can't wait to see the finished product. You might be starting a new trend on 6gc.

Thanks kavy! I hope your eyes will heal soon, as I hope new pictures will come this week. I'm going for the car on wednesday or thursday, so I'll do as many pictures on the way home, as possible. Only hope that everything will be ok on the car, as there were not many occasions to check the results during the project.




Thanks again richee3. You are right with the blue color. I liked it but couldn't imagine it on my car. Therefore I kept looking for other color and I found this.

Gotta hand it to ya, that color is pretty sexy man, great choice.
I bet projectors and JDM tails would look so sick with that color!!!!!

This post has been edited by Lil-Joe101: Mar 7, 2011 - 4:37 PM

Thanks Lil-Joe101, the projectors and JDM tails will look very good on it now, I agree. I'll think about it. The projectors are hard to get in Czech republic. Then a necessary modification for LHD. I would be afraid of modification of parts that expensive. But I saw here, that a few people here did it, so I may try it one day.
But thanks for the idea.

That color is HAWT! I do have to point out... they went through all the trouble to pull the door handles off, spray the jams and stuff... but they left the skirts on when they sprayed the car...

Hi Driver and thanks. The skirts were left on the car as they were glued-on. It's impossible to cut it from the car without causing any damage. But the glue worked as a body filler so I hope It will look good.

were im from we would say thats tits! i do see some orange in that red. lol must be an illusion. im really digging that. great eye my friend. thats ballsy doin that without actually seeing it before its on the car. good look on the celica

This post has been edited by TerBeau: Mar 12, 2011 - 10:44 PM

Folks... since the car is at least few days done (just small details missing) I had a chance to see the color and say it is from purple through red to orange... depends on light. Unbelievable color. You never have chance to catch it in the picture. Just few sneaky pics for you (I know Uprutus will be mad on me because I broke the rule to not share with pictures first but you deserve it )







This post has been edited by malpaso: Mar 13, 2011 - 11:24 AM

That looks awesome.

This post has been edited by SwissFerdi: Mar 13, 2011 - 10:57 AM

that look clean ! i want to make my front fit my hood too, i was thinking of modified the bumper and raise it to the hood, more picture ?


This post has been edited by Needles: Mar 13, 2011 - 1:41 PM

Simply stunning. I can't wait to see more pictures of the finished product.

Sorry for my late update and thanks Malpaso for presenting of few latest pictures.
To Ferdi: thanks
To TerBeau: well I saw the color on some poor picture of lexus isf. But as soon as the car was in the paintshop I saw a short video with other lexus with this color, so I wasn't affraid.
As Martin wrote, the car is a few days in my garage, but I had not enough time to present pictures, untill now.

Here are a few pictures from the thursday afternoon when I got the car back:

The color on the inner side of the hood is the second color layer. I was confused that this will be the result of painting

I love how it looks together with the lip. Only the silver stripe in the front window and the rims disturbing the final outlook. But it will change before this summer.

The color looks different from different angles and in different light conditions. I like it very much :-)

The back stood without change.

As it was getting cloudy and I had nothing to cover the hole in the hood, the bodyman fit in a thin aluminium sheet. I'll replace it as soon as I have the grill painted in black (may be with red pearl), the same I may do with the wheels;)




Within the next two weeks I hope I reassemble the plastic parts from interior, clean it and add a few more new parts, which are on its way to my address

This just got added to my list of favorite Celicas. It's so clean. I love it.

I did a bit of cleaning of the cockpit this weekend. Also checking what parts were destroyed, are missing or were too old that I have to replace them with new ones. So I made a list and today ordered all necessary parts. I hope that will be it for some time, as the list was pretty long and some parts were really not cheap

Bellow you may see the result of sweeping of the cockpit:






Only a few last interior parts were not installed yet, but next week it will be ready, I'm sure. The cockpit was looking like new after cleaning, only it was too dark outside to make some nice pictures of it. May be next time
The next day I went to Malpaso for some new parts. The sun was shining weakly for a few minutes so I made some pictures. This one was the only one, that wasn't overexposed, so you can see another shade of red


Other parts are on its way to me, so I hope the car is ready for some other changes (I'm not decided yet, so I'm not going to present any details yet)

loooks absolutely amazing man! i really love it!

to me though, it just seems like the front end is missing something because of the hood lines going into the opposite lines of the bumper

I really appreciate it, richee3. It's always good to know, that you are not the only one who likes something


Thanks mkernz22.
Now about the lines The line which goes around high beams is the same. There was no change made here. And the inner line? It depends on the angle from which you are looking at the car. By my opinion it fits pretty well, but the bent would be still visible, as you can't simply trim off the material. But I like it this way and I don't plan any other modification of the hood or the bumper in a bodyshop.