alright everyone, its finally time for me to stop post whoring and post up my first topic. lol well my celica sat in some farmers feild out here in colorado with no windows for atleast 2 years... so lets just say there was about 2 inches of cow, and rat **** inside the entire car, the story was that the previous owner decided to get drunk and stoned off his ass, then go driving, and missed a turn, and rolled the car over a few times. he owned anouther celica so he took most of the good parts out, and just let it sit, well being a mechanic i couldnt pass up a free car like this so heres some pics of what it looked like, and what it looks like now, feel free to post any build ideas, cause if i get a job soon, she wont be stock for long, this took me about 2 months of 8 hour days, but atleast i did it myself. thanks for lookin.

LR quarter panel, just getting her home for the first time


Left A/B pillars, and crushed in roof


The old roof line


The new roof line with a/b pillars back to factory mesurements


heres a few pics of the car finally legal, and in primer





This post has been edited by Ryouxrs: Apr 26, 2009 - 6:51 PM

I must say that is an amazing job you have done. The rear left quarter panel work was similar to mine. but mine wasnt flipped but i think backed into a pole. I also did my own body work and you can only admire how well it looks now compared to before. I would mabe suggest shaving the antenna if ur up for it. you can check my post with the work taht i did and see if you like it. But once again great so far and good luck with the car!

Heres the link to my work so you can see it
http://www.6gc.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=65477

yeah, it was a pain, but its 1000x better than b4, its kinda funny that all the panels were screwed on the drivers side, and the door was purfect, didnt even have to touch it. lmao

holy ****! wow! nice job on that. how's the interior looking? although i know this is an "exterior" progress. But keep it up.

the interior looks great, but id love to change to black seats, and carpet, but after comp. gutting the interior and pressure washing, scrubing, and then steam cleaning, it looks, feels, and smells great!

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NICE!!

very nice man....very nice...good to see someone else on here doing there own work...thats the only way you learn...not to bad for being rolled a couple times though..lol

my only advice to you..since its the good old ST, unless your looking for a full blown project, is get it where you want it, both interior and exterior wise, then save up, and if you have the time, patience, and money, put a 3s in her....if not, sell it and buy a gt for a swap...it makes things a little easier...if your not looking for all that then a nice head unit, system, and some exterior mods and it'll be everything you wanted in a car.

good luck with it...keep us updated

I notice most of the people do their own work here.

good work man!

Damn dude - impressive. Now get your ass a job and start modding

This post has been edited by DEATH: Apr 28, 2009 - 10:47 AM

thanks guys, well it has already become a project, as u can see, i've put 2k into her so far just in parts, but she handles like a dream and now gets 39.5 mpg. so i cnt complain, but as for a 3s swap... we might see my lil 7a with an ebay turbo kit b4 to long, but the 3s will be in her one day.

How do you get 40 MPG???

Probably a lot of highway driving.

pretty much, speeds of 55-85mph most of the time, and the motor is very health, and i gave it an uber tune up. lol

I wish I was smart enough to rebuild my motor.. =\ hell, I'd rather swap.

meh, i just wanna turbo to get close to 200 whp, if i wanna go fast ill pull my 65 gt out of the garage. lmao