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by cars-guy
Fri Dec 16, 2022 4:01 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

DannyMack wrote: Mon Aug 29, 2022 2:44 pm What type of additional masking did you have to do before bringing it into maaco?
I just masked everything I could on the car myself because my attention to detail on perfecting the lines would be preferred to someone just trying to get the car out the door
by cars-guy
Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:58 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

what a shame. I would be tempted to set up a booby trap to teach this jackass a good lesson. one of the many "benefits" of living in a high density city. OTOH, it sometimes pays to drive a beater with bad body work, urban camouflage. I tried to set a trap with cameras as a I had a feeling...
by cars-guy
Fri Dec 16, 2022 3:50 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

Was it a neighbour of yours that totalled your last car and drove off? ( I might be thinking of someone else) I would be setting up some dash cams. Have any other cars in streets around you been keyed or is it just yours? Yeah that was someone in the neighborhood but when this happened it was a dif...
by cars-guy
Fri Mar 04, 2022 10:47 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

Nothing new to report with the tercel other than I replaced the alternator a few months back. Im said I have to make this post but some one keyed the ever living shit out of the car while it was parked at the Americana mall in Glendale, CA. This happened a month ago and because I was right next to t...
by cars-guy
Tue Jan 19, 2021 1:17 am
Forum: Cars for sale
Topic: 1984 wrecked wagon sale or part out
Replies: 10
Views: 5527

Re: 1984 wrecked wagon sale or part out

I’m sorry but I’m still trying to figure out how to delete this thread but the car is long gone, sorry
by cars-guy
Mon Sep 07, 2020 11:23 am
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

Well I’m happy to say the Tercel’s AC is working flawlessly now. I found a shop that was able to do an r134 conversion for pretty damn cheap compared to what other shops wanted. Looks like they did a damn good job too. All they did was replace a couple o rings, add the conversion kit, change the com...
by cars-guy
Mon Jul 20, 2020 10:20 am
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

I have a dome light lens, I am planning on making a run to that junkyard I mentioned to you a few weeks back to get some parts. I'll grab the seat carpet holders and black speaker shelves for ya too! May also have a black clinometer cover to trade? Oh hell yes I’m so down. At first I didn’t recogni...
by cars-guy
Fri Jul 17, 2020 4:07 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

The exterior of the tercel is now finished. I managed to get my hands on a reproduction toyota sticker for the rear hatch. I didn't quite sand off the old sticker all the way even though I thought I did before paint. It pissed me off at first because after the car was painted you could still see a l...
by cars-guy
Tue Apr 28, 2020 10:57 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

Great you got the cash but it's annoying that as the hit and run perpetrator is rich they won't have a mark against there name in the eyes of the law as they payed you out. Thanks for the Compliment above. And don’t feel so bad, he’s still being charged because this isn’t his first dui. The da look...
by cars-guy
Tue Apr 28, 2020 2:40 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

So an update on the car. Forgot to take pictures of it but its a cool little mod. When I swapped the body panels over from my wrecked 84 to my 85 I had a problem. The antenna mounting had switched sides between those years. You'll notice in the photos the car doesn't have an antenna. I was going to ...
by cars-guy
Mon Jan 20, 2020 11:27 am
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

What a beauty she's become! If you don't mind me asking, did you have fight at all to get that much for your wrecked car? $2000 seems like a lot, (from the perspective of a stingy insurance corporation of course) for a car of that vintage with "low collectable value." If there was any tri...
by cars-guy
Sun Jan 19, 2020 4:18 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

What a great result and well cone on the budget you had! I like the fact that some of your earlier cars dna lives on. Tell us about the drug running Tercel when you are ready! ah yes the drug running tercel. When I bought the first one it had a ton of service receipts from a shop in tijuana mexico....
by cars-guy
Sun Jan 19, 2020 4:04 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

For any one who is interested in total cost, the car was $250, Paint out the door was about $1500, and misc body supplies and other stuff was about another $250. My budget from the insurance was 2k so this worked out perfectly. While I'm sad about my first tercel getting wrecked I basically just tra...
by cars-guy
Sun Jan 19, 2020 3:44 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

While the car was in paint for a couple weeks I took the time to clean up all of the parts that came off the car. The bumper frames got wire wheeled, stayed with rust converter and undercoated while the plastic got a thin coat of trim paint. The grill was cleaned and painted and the 4wd logos got to...
by cars-guy
Sun Jan 19, 2020 3:31 pm
Forum: Tercel Gallery and Projects
Topic: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration
Replies: 40
Views: 32821

Re: 1985 Tercel 4wd Restoration

Now it is body work time. I got all the areas addressed that needed to be addressed and started getting everything sanded down for paint. fc15bbe1_22ef_4228_8b09_8108e8e0c1e3_21cbda7f60fd0d7085d933ee933b8e6eddb48e69-1.jpeg IMG_8539.jpg IMG_8538.jpg Once I was confident the car was perfect I sent it ...