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Hey everyone,
Just got my 1977 celica gt coupe a week or so ago and love it! I bought it from the original owner with 148000 miles with a slight oil leak and lackluster paint for $1900. He also had all of the original shop manuals for it and get this....as an accountant he had a booklet of every tank of gas he had put through it since 1977! Im trying to save up the money now to buy a beater 89-91 supra to do the 7mgte and r154 swap. I also need to take care of the suspension and rear axle swap, oh yeah and paint and bodywork haha.

heres some pics
axRA24, on Flickr

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You've got the A/C book we've been looking for. Any chance you could scan that and post it for us as a reference?

Yeah definitely. It might take me a bit because my printer/scanner at home is broken so i will have to do it at school. Do you need just the repair manual or the compressor manual too?

Nice find! Welcome to the board.

congratulations with your 1stgen,she looks great
welcome to the forum
have fun

Welcome! Nice deal on a very nice car. You can't put a price tag on maintenance records like that.

I'll second the request for the A/C and compressor manuals. Would love love love to have those. If you post them up I'll also use my OCR software at work and make an ebook version. I work at a publishing company so I've got some neat software.

Nice to have you aboard.

Hey guys sorry i havent posted the AC manual yet I have no access to a scanner right now. If any of you do and would like to make a PDF out of it or something similar id be glad to send you the book USPS or something. Just lemme know if anyone is interested

Congrats man. That's a nice clean driver. These 1st gens are really becoming hard to find, especially that clean.

djax-- I can do it, happily. PM me for address.

Im trying to save up the money now to buy a beater 89-91 supra to do the 7mgte and r154 swap. I also need to take care of the suspension and rear axle swap

That looks to be a very nice original car. It's just my opinion and maybe I am too old, but I just don't understand the desire to hack up a nice car when there aren't many left. This is exactly what keeps me from selling my Liftback.

Not planning on hacking it up. Just refreshing it. Parts for the cars are getting pretty rare/expensive and I would like to preserve the one I have. I do however want to update it with newer parts/engine so that someone can still enjoy it when I decide to sell it. I have decided not to do the 7m swap anyways instead im going with a 1uz swap a little down the line. Right now I just finished installing a Weber 32/36 and boy does it run better.

By "hack up a car", I did not mean to insinuate shoddy work. Quite the opposite, the builds I see posted and documented are very impressive. I totally understand taking a car that is in marginal shape and creating something from that basis. It seems that all the swapping requires extensive cutting up of the original structure, which, if the car is a nice original, it seems a shame to modify it.