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Hello

Posted: August 11th, 2010, 10:31 am
by peppu
Hi,

I am a new member, have just joined the site. I own two 1st generation celicas, a 73 LT model and a 74 GT model. Unfortunatly both cars are currently in storage as I plan to restore them to original condition.

I wish to say Hello to you all.

Re: Hello

Posted: August 11th, 2010, 10:59 am
by ChristobalRocks
Welcome! :)

We'd love to see some pictures of your cars when you get time to post them.

Re: Hello

Posted: August 11th, 2010, 8:18 pm
by cheela
Welcome, hello and yes would love to see pictures of your two cars. :)

Re: Hello

Posted: August 11th, 2010, 8:34 pm
by modernrockbro
Yes, welcome to the site! And take some photos of your cars. The site is about people helping others with their cars so feel free to let us see what you have, and where you are at on your project. You can look in the project gallery and see people at many different levels on their cars.

Re: Hello

Posted: August 11th, 2010, 10:58 pm
by StingrayGT
yeah, picture is a must, welcome

Re: Hello

Posted: August 12th, 2010, 12:01 am
by toyboyracer
G'day Maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaate !

Here's a beer :cheers:

Putting a location on your profile helps us all get along a bit easier btw ;)

Re: Hello

Posted: August 12th, 2010, 3:34 am
by faffi
welcome,
love to see some pictures geek

Re: Hello

Posted: August 12th, 2010, 11:38 am
by peppu
Hi,

Thanks for all your comments and sorry for not stating my location previously, I have just joined this forum and am not that familiar with its settings. I am from Malta.

As regards to the photos of the celicas, I will try to take some as early as possible and upload them here.

For the meantime, I am posting a picture of another Toyota which I own, a 1977 KE35 model (hope the link works!). This was bought new by my mother and was also my first car hence it has a special value for me. Hope that you like, altough it is not a celica model.

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Re: Hello

Posted: August 12th, 2010, 12:01 pm
by ChristobalRocks
That's a nice looking car peppu! :cheers:

Re: Hello

Posted: August 12th, 2010, 12:20 pm
by Im jhun_hapi
Welcome.. wow!!! nice corolla.. cant wait to see ur celica.. ur probably the first member from ur area.. hehehe welcome again :2thumbs:

Re: Hello

Posted: August 17th, 2010, 7:31 am
by peppu
As promised I am uploading some pictures of my cars. As I already mentioned in previous posts, the cars are currently in storage awaiting restoration.............both cars have been in storage for over 10 years. The first two pictures (red car) are of the 74 TA22 GT model which is equipped with its original 2T-G engine, whilst the other car is a 73 TA22 LT model which also has its original 1600cc 2T engine. Restoration on the LT model was started a long time ago, it was stripped to a shell and taken back to bare metal. The underside of the car has been finished in its original gold colour (as seen in the last pic below) whilst the exterior and interior only reached the primer stage. The LT needs to be sprayed an re-assambled in order to be finished, whilst the GT has still to undergo the whole process. The current project car is a 70 Triumph Spitfire mk3 which belongs to my dad. As soon as this is finished, restoration of the celicas will hopefully continue so that they can make company to the KE35.

Hope you like the pics.

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Re: Hello

Posted: August 17th, 2010, 7:35 am
by toyboyracer
There's nothing prettier than a Red Celica but Gold's pretty good too ! :shades:

Re: Hello

Posted: August 17th, 2010, 7:44 am
by peppu
Hi toyboyracer,

When I bought the LT, I was condiering spraying it in a different colour (at that time I was considering Yellow), however I decided to keep it to its original specification. Fortunatly to GT came in Red from the factory (Code335), and will eventualy be resprayed in the same colour.

Re: Hello

Posted: August 17th, 2010, 8:29 am
by ChristobalRocks
Nice cars! But ten years? :nonono:

I hope you get a chance to work on your Celicas soon! :2thumbs:

Re: Hello

Posted: August 21st, 2010, 12:24 pm
by 75CelicaGT
Welcome :wave:

It's not a Celica, but we love other old Toyotas here too, and that is a beautiful silver Corolla :2thumbs:

:cheers:
Pete