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[FORGMANN]

Turning 40 in few months curious how many older owners we have on forum.
As Celica gets older and cheaper the majority of owners get younger which is
to be expected. What keeps you interested in Celica and not moving on.?
Friend of mine is 44 and has 2 very nice tuned ST-185s .My body guy and
also good friend who also 39 has a ST-185,MK1 S/C MR2,Widebody 93t mr2 with 14k miles,
AE86, and tuned 2dr RAV-4 all RED !


I bought my ST205 as 30 birthday present and 10 years later finally get to enjoy it .
Already told fiancee i will be buried in it . Totally look forward to restoring and developing
to modern standards . Look forward to sunny weekends as that is only time will be driven.
Amazing part is i have almost more mileage on my 2013 XV . Only 8k mile difference for car
only year old vs 20yr old car .

[thymeclock]

I'm 60. Yeah, I'm old and getting older. (Who's getting younger?) But I still love driving a convertible in summer.

My Celica is a '99 convertible, with about 59K miles. I drive it only in summer, then it goes back in the garage until next year.

It's one of my younger cars. During the rest of the year my daily driver is an '89 Mitsubishi Galant. That one is also garaged. I just took my Celica off the road a few days ago and went back to driving the old Galant. It's another sweet car that I won't part with. It looks and runs like new.

My previous convertible was an '88 Celica which clocked about 160K miles. I sold it after I bought the '99 as a used car in 2003. I didn't want a Solara - too big and heavy and ugly. I had to have another Celica convertible and since they weren't making any more I had to search for one that was "pre-owned'. No regrets!!!

Condition is far more important than age. It applies to people as well as to cars.