My 1987 celica (Iceland) LOTS of pictures

It´s very usefull working for Toyota. I get great discount and I get unlimited access to the workshop and all the tools so I can´t complain

the gen. 7 celica was an awesome car, fun to drive and great handling, but there are alot of those cars around so it´s not that special seeing one on the streets.
but I can defenetly see my self buying another one sometime in the future.(but I would not sell the gen. 4 to buy one)
the gen 4 celica is mutch more special to me and has alot more caracter. and you can feel that this car was made when Toyota were trying very hard to make good cars rather then making many cars and make alot of money. You don´t feel like you are driving a 25 years old car.
I´d rather have the gen. 4 than gen. 7 for a keeper.

 

Let´s post some more pictures.

I got bored of dealing with rust so I decided to put that on hold for a while and do something else.
The lights weren´t giving alot of light so I replaced the headlights and I also put 6000K HID kit in it.



The previus owner had some red neon lights in the grille that looked really bad so i took it out.





I have some good friends that were eager to help me with the car.



And i also painted the heat cover for the exhaust manifold.





That´s mutch better


It was looking a little better after I´d waxed it a couple of times more

 

thanks guys.

thanks man

Yeah we get sunny weather here. Those pictures are taken some time ago. I´m just going through the pictures in my
computer, uploading and posting them here, so those last pictures I posted were taken during winter.
In june and july the sun almost never sets, we actually get 24 hour daylight but in mid winter we get about 5-6 hour of daylight and alot of snow,
so the weather here is pretty extreme

the car had those skirts when I bought it, I did some checking and nobody seems to know where they came from.
someone thought it might be an aftermarket skirts for an old GTI corolla that had been modified to fit this car. I think thats possible.

I have alot more pictures comin soon so stay tuned

 

It´s just 2 months of the year june and july. but by Icelandic law you always have to turn the lights on when you are drivin, day or night so I get to show off my awesome pop up lights alot
but I want to put lights in the front bumper too so I don´t always have to use the headlights.

 

Well, got more photos and let´s keep on posting.
the previus owner (who btw did not deserve to have this beauty) was painting the roof of his house and didn´t bother to move the car
and it was all covered in red paint spots. So I took it and spent many hours cleaning the paint and had to polish it alot more.






after few hours of polishing














and two pictures I took the day after



So this is all I did right away after I got it, it really needed to be done.

I have done alot more since then. I´m working on uploading the pictures and I will post it when it´s done

 

Thanks. I´ve got alot of the Celica passion (that´s what keeps me going through this mission)
I tried all kinds of car paint cleaners and even clay but I ended up using cellulose thinner, cause it was house paint it came right of (no rubbing needed) without damaging the paint of the car. just put the thinner in a cloth and gently stoked it of.
The paint got a little bit matte afterwards so I machine polished the hell out of it.
I also polished by hand in the curves where the machine didn´t reach.
It was ALOT of work but well worth it.

 

I wanted to give myself a reward for a job well done and bought a 17" inch wheels.
but as you have noticed, this was during winter and
I had to wait a couple of months before I could fit them under the car.


more pictures coming this weekend

 

koming right up

thanks. I have some experience with polishing machines. I used a wet polish, the trick is to use a little water with it so it won´t get to hot an ruin the paintjob.
works pretty well.