Bought another Gen 6 :), Smirnoff's Big Yellow Taxi Options

[smirnoff]

Seen a Celica for sale at the end of last week, as soon as I saw it I fell in love with it. It is an import, needs a few wee bits and pieces done to it but overall it's not too bad. The only downside is it's the 3F-SE engine and not the 3G-SE, I don't mind though as I'm looking for a car to do up nicely for the shows so not overly concerned about the performance. Also got it for the bargain price of £700 ($1067) Some pics for you;







Plan to put on black raiser blocks and may change the bonnet to black as well.

Done a few jobs to the front today;

Before I started;


Got rid of this;


Fitted this; Thanks to Rob at Likwidart


Fitted number plate surround and Fly Eye Kit to all the lights;

[Tech-Nics]

***Also got it for the bargain price of £700 ($1067)*** LOL!!!

That same car here in the US would sell for at least 6k+ just being a RHD.

This post has been edited by Tech-Nics: Jul 22, 2010 - 7:28 PM

[Johnnyny]

nice price she looks good i like the skirts !

[smirnoff]

***Also got it for the bargain price of £700 ($1067)*** LOL!!!

That same car here in the US would sell for at least 6k+ just being a RHD.

Are you serious???

[Johnnyny]

***Also got it for the bargain price of £700 ($1067)*** LOL!!!

That same car here in the US would sell for at least 6k+ just being a RHD.

Are you serious???

no ive never seen dat unless its a skyline and obviously it costs more

This post has been edited by Johnnyny: Jul 22, 2010 - 7:48 PM

[smirnoff]

nice price she looks good i like the skirts !

Thanks Johnny think they are Veilside, I have the same ones to fit on my Red GT came as part of a kit I bought although they are marked as Erebuni 404, I think Erebuni done Veilside replicas although I could be wrong.

[rave2n]

Wow...1067...thats amazingly cheap.

Beautiful pickup! Loving the likqid badges...temping me to reconsider my "custom" work on my bumper =P

[smirnoff]

Wow...1067...thats amazingly cheap.

Beautiful pickup! Loving the likqid badges...temping me to reconsider my "custom" work on my bumper =P

Thanks I thought it was a steal at that price, the guy I bought it off pointed out that the boot (trunk) wouldn't lock, the bonnet latch wasn't working, the handbrakes were shot, the front passenger side shock was shot and would probably cost about £200 ($300) to get fixed and hence the good price, I had all these fixed myself in about an hour and cost me nil

[rave2n]

boot (trunk) wouldn't lock, the bonnet latch wasn't working, the handbrakes were shot, the front passenger side shock was shot and would probably cost about £200 ($300) to get fixed and hence the good price, I had all these fixed myself in about an hour and cost me nil

Hah, aftering owning my cellie for about 2 years now, i'd laugh at those simple flaws....back in the day I'd be scare to buy it =P

[Remy]

Dont worry when I first starting shaving I had the same problems too lol Very clean car though.

[smirnoff]

boot (trunk) wouldn't lock, the bonnet latch wasn't working, the handbrakes were shot, the front passenger side shock was shot and would probably cost about £200 ($300) to get fixed and hence the good price, I had all these fixed myself in about an hour and cost me nil

Hah, aftering owning my cellie for about 2 years now, i'd laugh at those simple flaws....back in the day I'd be scare to buy it =P

I know what you are saying, the bonnet catch just needed connected to the the pulling lever in the car ~ 3 mins fixed it, the trunk latch needed a spring, got one from a friend ~2 mins replaced it, the handbrake just needed an adjustment at the shoes about 15mins including removing the rotor and aligning the hole in the rotor and the biggest job was removing the front strut and replacing it with one I took from my GT awhile ago (McPherson thank goodness I didn't need Superstrut) took around 30 mins. A year ago I wouldn't have known how to adjust the handbrake on a Celica

This post has been edited by smirnoff: Jul 22, 2010 - 9:36 PM

[cheela]

awesome! looks real good for the price. such a steal.

[Lenny]

wish i got my car for that much. great find and amazing deal you got cant wait to see what's in store for it in the future.

[smirnoff]

Thanks for the comments folks. Bought a nice Momo Tornado F1 steering wheel and boss kit for the fine price of £50 ($77) delivered I just love Momo steering wheels so when I seen one of these beauties in yellow I just had to have it.

[HectortheRican]

SO CHEAP!! That looks much nicer than mine when I got it and I paid $4,200 USD!

[smirnoff]

Right folks have a few updates for you, been a busy couple of weeks;

Got rid of the standard steering wheel and fitted my momo;


Love the feel of this;


Have also changed the arm rest and gear gaitor will post up pics soon.

This post has been edited by smirnoff: Aug 16, 2010 - 7:52 PM

[JuMPiiN]

Hook me up with your old steering wheel.

[smirnoff]

I knew when I bought the car that the exhaust was split in two just before where it goes in to the back box, was my intention to replace the exhaust but needed a quick fix before I went to a show (Heatwave in Dublin) with CelicaIreland

Broken exhaust;


Pretty crude fix...but effective


Was lying on my back under the car smoking a ciggie and admiring my handiwork when I noticed a badge on the bottom of the back box, couldn't read it as it was so dirty so give it a rub with my finger to reveal this.....


Absolutely delighted a genuine TRD exhaust... gonna spend some dollars/pounds to get it fixed properly, not often you see these babies

[smirnoff]

OK so exhaust fixed, car cleaned, meeting up with the guys for a road trip to Dublin, amazing trip to Dublin there was about 10 Celicas in our convoy and we owned the road, riding double breast to hold back the traffic whilst we had some fun on the motorway/freeway 140mph was a common speed Drag racing on the open road FTW!

Arrived in Swords (outskirts of Dublin) at about 5pm, booked in to our hotel, quick shower and change and headed out for a serious night partying, one of the best nights I have ever had in my life (apart from the cost of booze in Southern Ireland )
was getting to bed about 5am........

[smirnoff]

......Early start we had to be at venue for 08:30am.... dunno how I managed it but I did, got to the show and got the old girl parked up on the stand;





Note the fly-eye kit on rears and Toyota horny devil badge... thought the Big Yellow Taxi didn't look out of place amongst the other Celicas

[smirnoff]

Brilliant show, we had an absolute blast even with our hangovers.... was a bit concerned though when I was driving to the show that the engine sounded a bit rough, myself and a few of the guys in the club had a good look round the engine and agreed that the rough noise seemed to be coming from around the alternator, water pump, power steering pump area seemed like one of the bearings was going. I had previously decided that I was getting the timing belt/water pump changed asap as I was unable to determine when I had bought the car when the last time timing belt was done, unfortunately on the trip back home the sound got worse, stopped the car for an inspection only to find that water was pissing from the water pump area, all I could do was take it easy and keep stopping to top up the water.

Bought a Timing Belt Kit, Water Pump and Thermostat for £120 ($187) got them fitted for £110 ($172) and now the old girl is running lovely with thankfully no long term damage done. So that's me up to date, next to do is get the bonnet, rear number plate surround and raiser blocks (when I get them from Vincent) sprayed black, get my wheels refurbed and some more subtle mods to the interior, will keep you good folks updated as and when these happen.

[smirnoff]

Sorry I forgot to mention that I have also fitted some led's (footwells front and rear, puddle lights ~ under the doors when they open and a nice one in my Celica stereo blanking plate) promise I will post up some pics of these.

[smirnoff]

Right I have had a busy couple of days thought I would share with you what I have done, decided to carry on with the interior changes;

Decided to get rid of the cloth on the door card;



Cut some yellow leatherette to the same size as the cloth (ok I'll be honest the missus done this mod for me as she loves doing this sort of thing, I just took the door cards off);



Glued and fitted the leatherette;



Refitted to the car;



Have also been painting the interior plastics of the past few days, would have liked to have gave them one more top coat but ran out of paint, may give them another wee spruce up in the future but for now I'm really happy with what I have done;

Before;




And after;










Need to get a ciggy lighter

On a roll so when the Boot Visor from Vincent's GB arrived today, had to get it fitted

Before;


After;


Looks really well on a yellow car

[KAOS]

After;


Looks really well on a yellow car

Hahahah - yeah it does...



This post has been edited by KAOS: Aug 26, 2010 - 12:38 PM

[smirnoff]

That is gorgeous Kaos, will be doing some black on my car too, rear number plate surround, bonnet and raiser blocks.

[KAOS]

That is gorgeous Kaos, will be doing some black on my car too, rear number plate surround, bonnet and raiser blocks.

Ooh - that will look sharp! Can't wait to see it.