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[RoadRage]

Hello 6GC'ers

My name's Tom, called Tj by friends and family, and after owning my 6gc for almost 2 months now and being part of these forums, I have decided to create my own progress thread.

I like reading up member's stories and how their cars came to be in the My Project section, so I thought I could contribute my own story, and I'd like to keep a collection of what I've done. [Long story ahead]
Every since I was little I always had an obsession with Celica's and I probably annoyed the hell out of my parents about how much I talked about them,
Come Christmas when I was 16 (Currently 19) A family friend was getting rid of his car and offered it to my parents as a Christmas present for me, it was a pretty big surprise for me to receive a car for Christmas, but I couldn't drive it independently until 1.5 years later, when I got my probationary license, not the greatest or safest car but it took me places and taught me a lot about car maintenance and care.

That was until November 2013, when on a rainy morning driving to work on a gravel road, I hit some pothole and lost control and managed to flip the car.
Car was wrecked and I was lucky to be even alive, let alone walk away unscratched.


I came back the next day to collect and sell the car to a junkyard, but someone stole all the wheels

This however gave me the opportunity to search the car I've been obsessing since childhood,

After constant search to find the 'perfect one' and feeling frustration that I was stuck inside the house, because here in Australia, its basically a 15 min drive just to the shopping store, or 30 min drive to a friends house, I think I was coming down with cabin fever, or just really really starting to hate public transport,

Until I was rummaging through newspapers at the girlfriends house, where I came across an ad of a celica for sale,
I saw it the next day and thought it was perfect, however the sunroof was completely wrecked, and the dealer that was selling took 3 weeks to fix it.
I cannot tell you the anticipation I was feeling then..
Finally came the day where I got my baby, and 1 year warranty


First night I got it.

I loved the car so much that since I've owned it, I've driven 7000 km (~4500 miles) in under 2 months already,
It came with missing parts where the cigarette lighter is, the dash has been drilled into for some phone holder, and all the panels for the driver's side were missing, so my first mod's were to make sure the car ran good, meaning do an oil flush because the amount of sludge I found was shocking) and change air filter, and usual maintenance, then get onto getting those panels.

Finding parts at yards was a bit difficult because there weren't many 6gc's anymore, until I got lucky and found 3 in one spot (even tho it was sad to see wrecked 6gc's )

My first proper mod was a full sound system upgrade. After receiving the car, and not playing the radio during the test drive, found out 3 speakers were blown, So I got myself this nice package



I did spoil myself, I decided since the car is red to go with a red theme, meaning get a head unit that has a red display, but then after seeing one of special that changes colours I had to get it.

Going from a cassette player and non working CD player (with missing buttons of course):


To:



I also cut out some of my own lovely mounts , turned out pretty well



For the sub wiring, had to rip out the back seats, but gave me a good chance to clean whatever dirt was there



The sub seemed to fit well in the back, (noticed I have no pics of sub, will take soon)

The weekend I spent installing all the audio, I reversed the car all the way back, because I choose the perfect day of 43 degrees weather, and theres no way I wanted to roast in the sun



Following the red theme, I put in some footwell LED's, that are door activated



During the night time when I open my doors people say 'wow that looks great' and now I've gone to install LED's in 2 of my friends cars

I have also whipped out my fancy camera, and tried taking some artsy photos,


Im hoping my camera skills will improve with time haha

I had the idea to plastidip my badges, I screwed up the back and couldn't get all the stuff off so I had to take the back badge off and the next day, either someone stole my front badge or it fell off, So I've been contemplating..


looks a bit ridiculous, so in the meantime I've gone badgeless, but I have put in so much effort in trying to rub off the glue residue, and theres still damn glue there

Some more photography while driving in the countryside



I do have to say the mod bug has bitten, and I am looking to do a bunch of things, im just waiting until my budget allows me,
For now I am waiting on new armest cover and trying to get headlight seals for the lowbeams.

My most recent photo, (and favorite so far) taken on the weekend



I think I'll stop typing now and head off to bed, and update later tomorrow with even more photos
I didn't realize I typed this much, but I feel so much passion for this car, Feels like I'm already driving my dream car and it feels great every time I walk out to the driveway to know that the car right there is mine, and how it great it feels to drive, I love working on it and If i'm not, I'm on these forums at least twice a day

And even if I'm not doing that, Playing Forza 5, guess what car I have?

Yup.. (taken when I glitched out of the showroom)



Thanks if you took time time to actually read all this, lol
Tj

This post has been edited by RoadRage: Sep 25, 2016 - 1:36 AM

[RoadRage]

Ok!! Update time!!

Been a bit lazy with keeping this up to date so lets get started --

I got my strut bar in, but the way my sub was set up, the bar couldn't fit so I went down to my hardware store and got a piece of wood and cut it to shape so I can lay down the sub and fit the bar,
Then I tidied my boot up



I went back to finishing my Raiser blocks, the bottom piece was missing so I got creative and made my own mounts


Then proceeded to paint and weatherproof the bottom, this is everything that went into it


pretty much ready to install



And Finished!! First photo after they were on



Only about 2 days after the spoiler, I reached in my passenger side to find it basically filled with water from a leak somewhere, I ripped the passenger side apart and couldn't find the cause, because water was everywhere. ....... Eventually it was found out that the windscreen sealant had completely come apart on the passanger side so off I went to get a new windscreen



I always love spotting other 6gc's and taking photos with them


6gc's aren't the most common sight where I live, but i was pretty surprised to see one when my girlfriend and I drove about 2 hours up to see snow in the mountains and behold, there was one



I then got clear turns finally! the last piece of the puzzle for my clear turn singals


I also got a set of TEIN lowering springs from rentaspace, but i am holding out on the install, till i get around to buying some new shocks along with it.

After this it was pretty much quiet for a while as I was back at uni and it was keeping me busy, however I notcied 2 new celicas showed up at my local wrecker so I went to check them out and found that the first one had a white cluster, and I thought why the heck not, ill grab it, put some contrast in my dash


Also ordered some carbon fibre wrap and its on its way, hoping to spice up my dash a bit since I find it a bit plain

The other Celica however! At first I didnt notice, but it was a personal import from Japan, it was in serious rough shape and didn't have much to offer so I was about to leave it, until I noticed it had Power Folding Mirrors!
Then i spent the next 2 or 3 so hours taking apart the whole interior and try to get as much wiring out as possible
Not bad for 50 bucks


That is pretty much up to date..
I got plenty of things in my garage waiting to be worked on, so I got plenty of things to keep me busy (not only uni)

I will most likely start work on the sideskirts, which have been laying around since about april now, then do the front splitters,
But the mirrors are so tempting to work on , might do those first

Hope you enjoyed my update