After the Corona went away, I got MY first car. (This car was bought for me).
~ Aristotle Sabouni
Created: 1980-03-31 |
After the Corona went away, I had been preparing to buy my own car (working and saving). My Uncle and Grandparents had chipped in, and found a totaled Celica -- and my Uncle had it rebuilt, stuck a truck motor in it, and tricked out for me. My Little Plumb Celica: I fell in love on first sight. It was an unreliable piece of junk, that I adored and drove to death. It was the best gift I've ever gotten.
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| I've never been a guy stingy/overly protective about cars. They're tools that should be shared. I let a girl drive my Celica, she got hit (fender bender in the right rear quarter panel), I had it fixed, she paid some back. But I still let her and others drive it. Joel/College roommate blew the motor up on the freeway. Oh well, it was a car... it wasn't due to something he did. I still let others drive future cars. |
Mine had a little more red in the purple than this picture... and more standard Krager 5-Spoke Mags, a glass-pack straight pipe making it fucking loud (and a ticket magnet), it had small spoiler/fin on the back, and a motor swap (with a Toyota truck motor -- so not much difference, a little more torque but less HP).
It broke down regularly.
- The throttle bar lost a cotter pin, so I used a paper clip.
- That turned a lug that had a wire connecting it to the throttle on the carb. It broke. I used a shoe string.
- The return spring from idle broke (there was two -- one for the big majority of the throttle, and then a smaller one that returned it from about 1,500 RPM to about 800 for idle. The smaller one broke, I used a rubber band.
I seriously couldn't find the parts. But I laughed later when someone said their car was held together with bailing wire. I was thinking, "Oh, I wish had bailing wire handy, that have been an upgrade".
In the end, I was going back east to college, and my future roommate had come out to Cal for the summer and was driving the Celica whne he blew it p. (Another head gasket went out, but it had caused a more serious seize). The car wasn't worth repairing, and I was going away. So I sold her for scrap.
I miss that car...
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