ST162-7217829 (IMSA)

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Picked out a few shots and uploaded them to walmart and picked them
up a couple hours later.


The guy was originally asking $800 then he droped his price to $600 so I negotiated
with him and gave him $700. Even got a Blaupunkt stereo with it. Overall its probably
in better shape that the GTS hatchback I got and I paid $1000 for that rust bucket.

 

Yeah well I'm not complaining hehe With the amount of salt we use over here
I consider every Celica I find to potentially be the last local one I will find so
I'm creating a stockpile of them so I'll have some to work on in the future.
After that I'll have to start importing them from the states.

Well I'm counting on you racing guys to help me out. My first question is what
are these little clips called. Are there any good racing sites where I could find
parts like these clips ?

 

I found this style of dzus clip at http://www.oppracing.com



but not quite the same

 

Well neither can I, I'd like to have it finished tomorrow but ....even
if I could start tomorrow theres probably almost as much planning
and design work as there will be in actual physical work. I'd imagine
most of the panels will be done in fiberglass.

There will definetly be some differences most minor like the roof. I'm
not going to cut the back of the roof just to get that seam in there.


This one small detail leads me to believe that they must have actually
used a hatchback roof and modified the rear pillar from the roof down
to the back of the car and used modified coupe side windows and
back window.


But when you get to the back of the car its got coupe taillights so I don't
know but it definetly looks like a hatchback roof.

I'm also not a really big fan of the rear spoiler. I much prefer the GTS
hatchback spoiler.


But with the exception of the spoiler the remainder of the car should look pretty
close to the IMSA version.

 

Heres a better picture of the clip in question which is "C"


I have found some that could do for type "A"


And I have found some like type "B" that use an alen key to fasten

But if type "C" is a Dzus fastener then I have not found that yet.

 

more pics of clip

 

And why have you changed your mind? They did race 2 cars each year
(#'s 98 & 99) from 1986-1989. It looks to me like 1 coupe #98 & 1
hatchback #99. Now they may have switched to the All Trac chasis in
1988 but it would not have been available for the 1986 or 87 seasons
so I think it is likely they raced 1 coupe & 1 hatchback. #98 clearly
has coupe taillights and as you can see in the following pic #99 has
hatchback taillights.



Sorry about the crappy picture but I only have 3 pictures of #99.I've got
about 50 pics of #98.
Heres the other #99 pics


And a group pic with the #99 being closely followed by #98

I don't know what years any of the pics are.

Got any more pics of #99 especially the back of the car. I think
I'm glad I'm going to IMSA a coupe cause it looks to me like they
kind of did a butcher job on the back end of the hatchback due
to the wrap around taillights.





But they did a pretty decent job on the back end of the coupe.

 

I've never seen any pics of the engine in the car. All I've got
is 3 pics of a display engine in the background of some of the
other shots.