Alex's 1974 TA22

[TA2274]

Howdy all

My name is Alex

I'm 28, and from Western Sydney, NSW

Decided to join this site, as I now own a Toyota again, and well, it's mostly AE86...

Story is that I have a couple of friends at some stage, we've all owned some old school Toyotas. About four or five years ago, one of my friends purchased her TA22 Celica after falling in love with my other mate's TA22. Difference was, that hers was a little rough around the edges, but still worthy of some loving. So over all these years, this car has had rust cut out of it, and plated up, resprayed, interior restored, and a whole swag of modifications done to it. When she started restoring it, I noticed the amount of time, money and coin that was invested into it, and I uttered the words "if you ever wanting to sell this thing, call me!" She said "NEVER!!"

Fast forward to Christmas 2008. We were having dinner together, and she mentioned If I remembered that time I offered to buy her car...... Well. It was an offer too good to resist.

There isn't much left to do on her. I plan on upping the compression on her to get some more killerwasps from the motor (with some lumpy cams), gilmer drive?, little bits of trimming in the interior, tidying up the exterior, and a new set of wheels.

So far, the mods off the top of my head are as follows:


So here she is lads. Some pics I've managed to collate so far of the build. I'll add more pics as I find them or take them.

Alex


Pretty much how it started out. Some whitewalls, and a bit of a tidy up.


Some paint, and a better powerhouse than the 2T
































New Radiator Installed, with new outlets for neater radiator hoses



Hope to come out on a cruise soon.

Cheers

Alex

[R&D Mechanical]

Looks good get some new wheels

[wntdae86]

nice ........ 4age looks clean ......rims look ok

[TA2274]

Plan is to get rid of the wheels, and go to a watanabe style or a SSR mesh type, in a 14" or 15"

[shift_rook]

sounds perfect

[ke_70]

cool as! looks like a 50y.o owns it lol

[skizzamods]

cool car, nice and clean. plans for wheels sound good.

[Mr Awsome]

i love these and RA28's

[blake.]

and I uttered the words "if you ever wanting to sell this thing, PM me!"