Help with buying a Celica, Lookin at a 1996 ST, plez help decision Options

[Fealos]

Hi, I just had my car totalled by some stupid ass in a giant box truck, full of furniture, who ran a stop sign and blasted me going 50. His words were "There was a stop sign there?" What an idiot, huh? He told the cop that his air brakes went out. People are messed up, huh?

Even though I have stitches in my head and my knee is shattered, I was more pissed about my car which (athough you wouldn't recognize it) was a silver, manual Mazda 626 LX 2.5LV6.

I am lookin at a gold (kinda champagne colored) 1996 Celica ST coupe with 47k miles on it selling at $8000. It has an alarm, keyless entry, Cd player...
He says it is worth $11,000 according to blue book

Now I do want a sporty car, should I wait for a hatchback GT in a color I like better, or is this a good deal, and should I get this one and soup it up?

here is a link to the carsoup listing, with stats and a picture:
'96 Celica ST on carsoup

[Black97]

Depends on how much you wanna spend. Some of the other guys on this site could help you out more with this, but you could do intake, exhaust, take some of the stuff outta your car if you were willing to (back seat and stuff like that), turbo, engine swap. Engine swap's the most expensive but helps the most. I think it's around like 4,000-5,000 for hte 3sgte swap, but it's the best one.