hehe new project car/daily driver.., painted pics PG7!! Options

[presure2]

so the shop behind ours at work be brought in this celica a few weeks ago, hit in the nose, bent up hood, bumper, and highbeams..i looked at it,..and thought, hmm, that'd be a cool project car..
i asked the guy about it a couple weeks ago, and he said, "gimme 300$, and its yours, parts are too expensive for it"...
needless to say, ill be picking it up next weekend.
once its fixed up a bit, it will replace my daily driver now, my 93 civic.
i figure what the hell, i work on enough celicas, only right i should be driving one daily!
the wifey drives the beast daily, and i drive it as well, but it will be nice to have my own now as well.

so its a 95 GT,185,000 miles. unfortunately, its an auto, but i figure, no biggie, it will be nice to teach my daughter to drive, (she recently got her permit) and later on,... not like ive never done a auto to manual conversion before! lol
run and drives quite well, even with the front end damage, hell, it didnt even damage the radiator, and it looks like it had recently been replaced! SCORE! lol
its Bright Iris Pearl ..i call it "burple" again, at least my daughter will approve, purple is her favorite color!
a couple pics as it sits:
the good:


the bad



the ugly



it even has the manuals




yay!
hey migga, at least you wont be the only one the girls point and laugh at for having an auto at the meets now!!
BWAHAHAHAH

[SwissFerdi]

NICE! But why not swap the 5S-FTE into this hatch and the 3S-GTE into the '94 GT?

[presure2]

NICE! But why not swap the 5S-FTE into this hatch and the 3S-GTE into the '94 GT?

because the 5sfte is jenns thing, and dropping a 2nd gen 3s, without major mods, into her car would be a major dissapointment.

[SwissFerdi]

because the 5sfte is jenns thing, and dropping a 2nd gen 3s, without major mods, into her car would be a major dissapointment.

Right, I kind of forgot it wasn't your car...but you could package it as this: throw the 3S-GTE (3rd gen, then) into her car, and fix this one up and transfer the old engine. Tell her to trade cars since her '94 is older, it's been the same for a while, and you'll fix this one up, it'll be 'newer,' and she'll have the dependable engine while you have the new-fangled commodity that hasn't necessarily been proven to work in this new car.






























































And if that doesn't work, steal that sucker.

[97lestyousay]

because the 5sfte is jenns thing, and dropping a 2nd gen 3s, without major mods, into her car would be a major dissapointment.

Right, I kind of forgot it wasn't your car...but you could package it as this: throw the 3S-GTE (3rd gen, then) into her car, and fix this one up and transfer the old engine. Tell her to trade cars since her '94 is older, it's been the same for a while, and you'll fix this one up, it'll be 'newer,' and she'll have the dependable engine while you have the new-fangled commodity that hasn't necessarily been proven to work in this new car.



And if that doesn't work, steal that sucker.

All of this has me confused, Jenn is Manny's wife. What difference doe's it make what engine is in this car?
If you think Jenn is some girly girl that wouldn't know the difference you must be new. So, I am not picking a fight,
I just don't understand why it matters. They can drive each others cars whenever they want so I don't think they call
it stealing.

This post has been edited by 97lestyousay: Oct 4, 2009 - 11:30 AM