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[Oreo20]

How did you obtain your celica and are you so attached to it if so why??? is this your first car?

I bought mine almost a year ago it was 3 hours from where i live in austin Tx
it was really beat up but i bought it for anyways for 1300$ and now its like a part of my life (:

[red94]

Hello, new to the forum and this is my first post. No better way to introduce myself than to explain how I got my 1st Celica and wound up on this site.

I had a 2001 Chevy Cavalier LS that I got a great deal on for about 4 years. It needed about $200 worth of parts and labor every year. I was fine with this because it was reliable, gas efficient, and had over 230k miles on it which was pretty cool for a Chevy. A couple months ago both CV joints went, the CD player, heat/AC did not work along with other small problems. Basically it was a running 'totaled' car. Poked around the internet and found the best offer for scrap. Tow truck came by, I pried off the hood emblem like I do with all my scrapped cars, and it was never seen again.

My girlfriend and I live and work together so for a couple months we used her car to get around. I kept my eyes and ears open. I was looking for a fun 2 door. Maybe a Prelude or Integra. I see plenty of them around here in Ohio, but not many for sale. Or for sale in my price range. On one of my daily scourings of Craigslist I came across a 1994 Celica ST hatchback. It was red, which I did not like much. But it looked to be in decent shape and had 153k miles. My girlfriends mom has a 1996 GT that I've always admired. The car was about an hour away and on a Sunday we went to look at it. The paint has a few spots where the clear coat is pealing on the driver side. Driver side tail light had a small hole in the lens, but all lights worked. The front seats were a little beat up, stained and torn. No driver side sun visor.(If you have one, let me know you can part with, let me know.) A little rust in the wheel wells. No hood emblem. It drove great, and everything worked aside from the CD player. The guy wanted $1k for it, I asked if he would take $900 and I drove it away that day.

Got home and bought a driver side tail light, hood emblem, and front seat covers on Ebay. Can't wait to do more work to it. The car has grown on me very fast and I don't even mind the color of it.
Here is a pic of it 5 minutes after I bought it.