Some Quick Help, Not-too-car-savvy girl here needs some ideas... Options

[mzztoyota]

Hi everyone I live in the Virgin Islands where even the hills have hills...and I'm selling my '86 Chevy Nova (Corolla in disguise...) and looking for a car for around $4,500. I found an ad in our local paper for a '94 Celica, and I'm going to go look at it tonight or tommorow. It's a GT 5 Speed with a new clutch and pressure plate, and the guys claims it has less than 60,000 miles on it (I'll be shocked if that's true).

I know that a lot of people say that Celicas don't have much power...but I'm not thinking of racing it, I just need to be able to get up steep hills. Is this car built for that kind of driving? Also, buying this car would pretty much empty my spending account for a couple weeks, so I need to be sure that I won't need to be making any mechanic trips any time soon...so what kind of common problems should I be looking for when I go and see this car?

I really appreciate your help guys, and if I buy it, I do plan on saving up and doing some work on it...so hopefully you'll see me around Thanks a lot.

[burneeed]

Cool..... yah celicas are dfefinately reliable cars. As toyota put the same engine in camrys. I had the same motor in an older celica that went over 240k. There very reliable. Only thing I ever replaced in my 90 gts was power steering pump / tune ups/ Clutch. And the car ran forever I sold it for 2k at 240k miles on it.

If the guy only has 60k on it and needed a new clutch sounds like hes a bad driver.

Make sure you get the vin and do a carfax to see if hes full of it with 60k on it and get the title check to see if its good and its actually les than 60k. There are many people on celicatech.net who have carfax who are willing to help you.

As far as it being the only 6gc in the islands. Many parts are interchangable from other toyotas such as earlier gen celicas and camrys.