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Oct. 1, 2008 9:11 a.m. integraguy Reader

This was on Craigs this morning, and as usual, absotively no affiliations with sellers......

http://memphis.craigslist.org/cto/861825439.html
Oct. 1, 2008 12:32 p.m. 93celicaGT2 Reader

I REALLY hate you guys sometimes.

That looks like a CLEAN shell. Now i really have to put my FWD Celica > Alltrac mindset to the test and not buy this.
Oct. 1, 2008 3:28 p.m. integraguy Reader

Hey, the ad says it "just stopped running"...I'm not sure how bad/expensive that would be on a turbo-charged car with more than 200,000 miles on it.

We do have very little rust on cars in this area. The bigger prob is that so many people drive like they got their licenses off a box of Cherrios that finding a clean, straight, body shell is often next to impossible. Add in a resurgence in this area of auto dismantlers and good cars are getting very hard to find...in one piece.
Oct. 2, 2008 8:30 a.m. 93celicaGT2 Reader

integraguy wrote:

Hey, the ad says it "just stopped running"...I'm not sure how bad/expensive that would be on a turbo-charged car with more than 200,000 miles on it.

We do have very little rust on cars in this area. The bigger prob is that so many people drive like they got their licenses off a box of Cherrios that finding a clean, straight, body shell is often next to impossible. Add in a resurgence in this area of auto dismantlers and good cars are getting very hard to find...in one piece.

It's probably nothing HUGE to fix, i would guess AFM off the bat... but if i get this, it would serve as a daily, and something about a 340k mile AllTrac sets the hairs on the back of my neck on end, and makes my sphincter pucker.

I'd either put a low mileage JDM motor in it, or swap in a quad cam V6. I'm trying to get a buddy of mine local to there to get it, though. Last thing i need is an alltrac. But DO WANT bad.
Oct. 5, 2008 9:18 p.m. 2.0dohc New Reader

if that was tempting, dont look at this!!!!! (not mine, dont know the guy,blah blah....) and I told you not to look
Oct. 5, 2008 10:17 p.m. smog7 Dork

looks like a nice car. might be a deal........
Oct. 6, 2008 10:29 a.m. integraguy Reader

I guess it was TOO tempting, as it was flagged, or..... someone doesn't want competition?
Oct. 6, 2008 8:59 p.m. exST165 New Reader

If that is a straight and relatively rust free body that could be a great deal! Good thing for me that I live too far away to check it out.