Well headed out to pick up my first car today.... Very nice 1974 TA22 celica with:

* 2TGEU 1.6 LITRE TWIN CAM ENGINE SWAP
* NEW SPORTS EXHAUST
* NEW CLUTCH
* NEW CARPET
* REUPHOLSTERED FRONT SEATS
* NEW SPORTS STEERING WHEEL
* KENWOOD CD PLAYER

Dad hates the thing lol.... needed a new battery on the way home and i need to replace the alternator tomorrow morning because its stuck where it is, but i can do that myself lol. Needs new tyres too but ill get some good rims first! Its good fun to drive and very loud lol. I love it. Type TA22 Celica into google images and that's the beast, havent got around to taking pictures yet. Only issue is that its not really much of a windsurfing car!!! cant really fit anything in other than uni joints and wet suits etc. Ah well i can always use dads ute.

Well had to share it with someone ha ha...

Cheers
Bubs

nice looking car bubs.

congrats.

Nice work Bubs,

My first car was a '79 celica, they're beasts hey

Get bomb insurance, don't worry about full insurance 'cos if you're anything like me you'll write it off in 6 months

You'll learn heaps about cars, and have a ball. Enjoy

PICS!!!!

Man i love these cars! im jelouse

Ahh - the good old sillycar..................

Nice one! Good luck to you!

I just got my Learners'....again...I could have my licence by the end of the year...

save money on rims and get more Gear !!!
if the seats lay flat.. fits the gear in.. or the girls.. which is the priority ??

I had a nice white 1974 Mazda RX4 Coupe of the same era around 1983-84(?), they were a very similar car in category and appearance (sweet looking cars even today), mine had had fat tyres and looked hot. As far as windsurfing gear on top it's the only place you can fit it, boot was for wetties, clothes, harnesses and spares and change of clothes (jumper) and a case of beer.

I had good quality wide Swedish (not Thule, the other one) racks, worked well even though the bars were only 2 1/2' apart. Took it for a trip to Merimbula from Sydney, 2 wave boards (max 8'10"), 4 masts (one-piece), 4 booms, 2 sail bags with 3 sails in each. I was not a slow driver and at one over taking pass I nervously got past 140kph and maintained good time most of the way. Nothing looked like blowing off or breaking. Can't beat gutter racks for strength!

We only checked our gear twice on the way down. No hassles at all. Sold it 1 1/2 years later, wish I kept it. That Rotary motor went like stink in every gear when you hit the power band, would be worth a few bob nowadays.

Nice one Bubs, still the best Celica model. The top blue one in the pic from greenroom has had a 3t-GTE conversion, which is a fuel injected twin cam turbo toyota motor (actually a GZE with a non factory turbo conversion) A very nice mod that I understand fits in very well.

I'm with you greenroom, I'm a bogan from way back and proud of it...as long as it's not a blue oval i'm happy.

Very nice, my first car was a 76 celica, and did plenty of miles (yes the speedo was in miles) with a big tyronsea firebird strapped to the roof racks. Never came off once, you get pretty good at stacking stuff on the roof.

mkseven said...

...Now if you'd got the supra

I had one for years, very impractical - couldnt fit anything into it at all. No back seats (unless you have no legs), really shallow tray, and even with the passenger seat back would struggle to fit a 4m mast section

I LOVED IT

JB

Hey Bubs my first car was a 1967 Toyota Corona that smelled like a bong on wheels as I bought it from a stoner for $300. Anyway, first thing I did was take the back seat out and hey presto, I fitted all my gear bar the mast and board inside. It had a cross brace for strength behind the seat but it was easy to negotiate the stuff through it. At a pinch I could even put a one piece mast in and just have it sticking out the passenger window. If I was using a short enough board i even got that inside too. It was nicknamed the Maui cruiser as one day I saw a pic in an American Windsurf mag of the exact same car but on Hawaii with 10 boards strapped to it's roof and hundreds of windsurf stickers all over the windows just like mine and the caption read, the Maui Cruiser. Thankfully mine wasn't quite as rusted as that one though. It had 2 speeds, slow and slower and I killed it driving up the freeway to Belmont one day. Blew the engine up, had the rubber band wound up so it was hauling along at 130 then whammo, smoke everywhere and a piston through the block. I then got a Valiant which had one of the biggest boots I've ever seen.

My first cars was a Datsun 200B bog bucket

1973 Datsun 180B, two stroke !!!

climber said...

Ah Richie and Vando.... your showing your age...how do I know???
My first car was a Datsun 200B Station wagon...great for windsurfing..and great for learning how to repair rust with bog...

Did ya Notice the AL mast I must be old

a speed race board....

and a windaction slalom????

and is that an alloy mast i see?