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(I don?t want to bring a 1 year old thread to life, so I will just post the link http://www.tokaiforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=164742&highlight=#164742 and start this new topic.)

After a year I finally found the original sticker, as a bonus it came with a car.
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That's a mid 70's Celica (high school era car for me) and a friend had one. Loved it. Also brings to mind the Datsun (pre Nissan) lineup.... the iconic 240Z, and the 510 which was a great little track car.
 
marcusnieman said:
That's a mid 70's Celica (high school era car for me) and a friend had one. Loved it. Also brings to mind the Datsun (pre Nissan) lineup.... the iconic 240Z, and the 510 which was a great little track car.

You know your cars marcus, very impressive. :wink:

1973 Celica TA22
 
I leaned to drive stick on an old Datsun Corona, great cars unless you lived somewhere where they salted the roads.
 
WTF - salted the roads??? What does that mean?

I have been the proud owner of 2 Datsun 240K Coupe (77 & 78) numerous 200B, an '88 300z and 2 Mazda 929 Coupe [ 82 HBSHE and 86 HBSE].
In all my years I must say I found the Nissan engine virtually bulletproof. Engine outlasted the body.

Peter Mac
 
Peter Mac said:
WTF - salted the roads??? What does that mean?

I have been the proud owner of 2 Datsun 240K Coupe (77 & 78) numerous 200B, an '88 300z and 2 Mazda 929 Coupe [ 82 HBSHE and 86 HBSE].
In all my years I must say I found the Nissan engine virtually bulletproof. Engine outlasted the body.

Peter Mac

Sorry for my poor English, In parts of Canada, in the wintertime, salt gets thrown down on the roads by the tonnage, if you have a nice car, you store it for the winter, if not, even with rust sprays etc you'd be lucky to get 15 years out of most any car.
 
Wow, I did not know that. It never gets that bad here in Australia - It's winter here now and the days are 21C [69F] and nights are 9C [48F]
At it's coldest, in Sydney it hits 11C [52F] day and 6C [43F] night and it's sunny 75% of the season.
Come over sometime, check it out.
 
2 years ago we had a though winter (for Belgium standards) and after some time there was a salt shortage. We have big hangars with massive piles of salt, but those guys with their salt throwing trucks seem to be compulsive about overdoing it.
I once was overtaken by a convoy of salt spraying trucks on the highway, quite an experience.
 
Some pictures of the interior?

Did you buy it as it is, or have you restored it/tidied it up yourself?

Most days I'm glad I've only got motorbike license, but when you see cars such as yours - you start to question yourself if you should.. :) As a hobby at least.
 
Lucke Luke said:
Did you buy it as it is, or have you restored it/tidied it up yourself?
Bought it as is. I worked as a mechanic for more than 25 years, had my share of wrenching, at the moment I just want to drive it. :D


Lucke Luke said:
Some pictures of the interior?
I only have a few crappy cell phone pics of the interior.
The car is still at the garage, the passenger seat is send to the upholsterer for repair.




 
Wow.... just like I remember them.

From the same 70's era, Ford made a European designed two door, four seater called the Capri MK1.... seen here (my long time highschool girlfriends car - great fun to drive):

http://betterparts.org/images/ford-capri-01.jpg
 
marcusnieman said:
From the same 70's era, Ford made a European designed two door, four seater called the Capri MK1.... seen here (my long time highschool girlfriends car - great fun to drive):

http://betterparts.org/images/ford-capri-01.jpg

Great car.
IIRC a friend of mine crashed 3 Capris in the ?80s (not the cars fault).
 
Here's the aforementioned 70's Datsun 510. GREAT little road car - modified one would eat a BMW 2002 for lunch:

Factory version: http://s.petrolicious.com/market/datsun/datsun-510-2.jpg

Modified:
http://image.superstreetonline.com/f/featuredvehicles/sstp_1104_1971_datsun_510_bluebird_1400_deluxe/30690512/sstp_1104_04_o%2B1971_datsun_510_bluebird_1400_deluxe%2Brear_view.jpg
 
The Celica was a very well loved car in Australia (at least IMO).

What is great is that it doesn't look out of place today, or maybe I'm just being sentimental about it.

Anyway, I think that Celica is a good looking car, and your one is in great condition. :)
 

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