sillycar79

Cheers :) I've already got the front and rear bars off (I need to strip the paint off the rear bar and polish up the chrome B) ), the tail lights are out and I've stripped out the whole rear half of the car to attack the rust that's accumulated. Fortunately most of it is just surface with very little imbedded rust. The arial (sp?) has been removed along with the motor as I'll be giving the car clean lines. I also removed the pin striping today. I started with a heat gun (as you do) but the pin striping has been buggered after 25 years and I ended up just attacking it with a wire brush on the power drill. That got it ;) I'm not too worried as I'll be respraying the car in the next few days and even though bare metal attracts rust in a big way, I've always got my converter to get at any that crops up, plus filler to smooth out the hundreds of dents (small and large) that have accumulated over the years. The guy I bought it off didn't look after it and ended up buying a hilux and just wanted to offoad the car. Bad for the car, good for me - gives me something to work with :) sorry about the rambling

Hi there, new member here from Brisbane. I just bought myself a 1979 RA40 18R-C engined Celica as a project car the other week. (pic below). I've not done much to it so far, just started to clean it up and find all the rust. I need to get in with some filler and sort that out and do a tidy up before I take it in for a roadworthy check. Being a uni student it may take a while before the project is complete but at least it will keep me occupied and out of trouble ;) The car has Genie Extractors and a Sunroof, other than that it's a stock standard 5 spd with 565 000 original kms on the clock. My daily driver at the moment is a 5spd 1983 Mitsubishi Sigma wagon with a stock 2L 4G52 engine however the sooner I get my toyota registered the sooner I can ditch it :) Catch you round