nammer's progress thread, link to photoshoot on pg. 6 Options

[nammer]

So after selling my 98 GT-S sometime in July...I decided to seek out my dream car! Here's a little story of my adventure to see a GT-Four, up front and in person, for the very first time...

Dragged two buddies along for the journey. We planned for the 12:30pm sailing at the horseshoe bay terminal in BC, to get to Nanaimo on Vancouver Island. Turns out the sailing was full and we waited 3 hours for the next sailing. After 1.5 hrs on the ferry we hauled a** 150km north of Nanaimo to Campbell River (keep in mind the last sailing home is 9pm). Finally arriving at the place we took a look at the car, took it for a spin and worked out the payment details.
The pro: engine is still running strong even with meerly 103,000kms
The cons: various surface rust here and there
The solution: leave the car there, get all the surface rust sanded out and get a full paintjob (at my cost)... then ship it to me

Now, I'm just waiting for it to arrive!....time for some teaser pics!
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More pictures to come when it arrives! The wait is killing meee....

This post has been edited by nammer: Feb 20, 2011 - 11:27 PM

[yarik83]

I personally think that (and I know I know I am about to raise some eyebrows) it is possible to just put your license plate on imported gt-4, remove the "4" from the badge at rear of vehicle and drive it. Now of course your street legal celica will have to be either permanently garaged or covered and be same color and model obviously). I drove 2 celicas for 2 years paying for only one insurance and registration etc. Was not exactly legal but hey I kept one covered, moved license plate to other one and drive that one for a few days then swap the plate again and covered the other car. No problems at all. I have even been pulled over on a couple occasions and officer checked that my driver record was clean and let me go.

Basically what I am saying is that say you have 1994 white toyota celica hatchback gt and 1994 white toyota celica hatchback gt-4... aside from steering wheel being on the wrong side there is no way one could ever tell those apart. Of course ethically and morally it is wrong but its not like our government is volunteering to change laws or anything.