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[Payne]

Hey everyone, first of all I would just like to point out that yes i've had an account on these forums for about a year, however i've mostly been lurking and am looking to become much more active now!

My celica: Red, 1996, ST204R, manual, 71,000 km's


So i'll start with a bit of background information, I received my celica in December of 2011, after a family member decided to have an upgrade after owning this car since new. Since the age of 10 I was always told that just before I turned 18 the celica would be mine but I didn't really believe it until it happened! Car had about 61,000 km's when I picked it up and is now sitting on about 70,000 km's.

When I got the car it came completely stock, even with the original celica car mats, a perfect base to start changing it to suit me. My first thing was rims, went for a gun metal 5 spoke rim (considering plasti dipping them black soon), following this I re-did the shift boot and door cards in black leather with red stitch due to they having a bit of wear and tear. Along with this I added a hand break cover and matching door handle covers following the same theme of black leather with red stitch. About this time I also had the spoiler resprayed along with minor detailing.

Being from Australia getting parts here isn't easy or cheap, for that reason it has taken me a better part of a year (ordered them in January) to find a genuine SSIII kit with front and rear splitters as well as the TRD side skirts that can be shipped here for a decent price. Following this all the parts have been sprayed, with the front and rear splitters on and the side skirts being fitted when I get some spare time.

Before you ask why I haven't touched the engine or any other performance aspects I'm on my Red P Plates which means I'm very restricted to what I can do, as well as this my parents aren't to keen on me upgrading anything performance wise for a while!

Sorry for the essay but that is pretty much my journey with the celica so far!

Here is a picture of my celica, taken a few days ago

[JoshuaM]

A great condition, one owner, 70,000km, RED Celica in Aus (and Free!? - or family discount )... You've got it good mate

Great to see another Aussie. I just graduated to green P's myself And also have very restrictive parents... They were not at all impressed with the Spree LED kit I installed, but I managed to slip the JDM tails and 7th Gen Celica rims past without them noticing I decided against the SSIII look (... For now ), but I just bought myself some TRD rear splitters. Forgot to mention dad almost had a fit when he saw the pod filter I got free off a mate... I'm not even going to mention an exhaust system

Cars looking great! And btw I commiserate on getting parts here in Aus... EVERYTHING needs to be shipped from overseas and it's never cheap

Looking forward to some more pics with everything installed

P.S. Have you thought about a spree LED kit? They take ages to get here, but they are great! I bought two (one red and one blue) for the full dash kit with ash tray light, and ended up putting in the blue ones. If your interested ill sell the red set for $30 plus postage (assume $5 - I'll cover any extra). Let me know if your interested