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Hi my name is Gerard and I'm from Ireland, and I have loved toyotas and especially celicas for years.

I currently own a 96 st205 gt four and recently I was lucky enough to buy a 78 ra28 gt model complete with 18 rg engine, LSD and silver dash trim. The car came in bits as an abandoned project and I hope to start a restoration soon. The body is very sound except for sills/ rockers and rear arches and small welding needed to chassis legs near front of car.

The car came with brand new genuine Toyota hood/bonnet, 2 wings/fenders and 2 new doors! I hope to get welding sorted and restore car to original condition with some new wheels and maybe lowered suspension.

I'm glad to have found this site and hope to get some good advice and source some parts etc from you guys!

welcome,
nice to have some more people from europ,
do you have some photo's of your celica?

Thanks for the welcome. Yes I have some pics, will try and post them in the next day or two

Finally got some pics up, have a long way to go yet!

Sorry but the right of each pic is missing, cant get it all in, maybe im doing something wrong? Can i reduce the size somehow?

welcome on board

have fun restoring the celica, I own ST205 too

are you gonna keep the original color ?

Thanks for the comments! Yes I think I will keep the car the same colour, I want to try and keep it pretty much original. Although I like white as a colour, but I was lucky to find an ra28 of any colour as they are very rare over here!

cool,
yes it is a nice color
and celica's in there original state are rare

Hi there, I'm hoping to restore a TA28 in Sligo at the moment, I saw your thread and thought I'd say hello as I may be needing some advice on where to get parts etc. anyhow, off to complete my own intro!!

welcome from uk good luck mate.
Al.

Another one, woohoo!
Where the hell did you get new panels?
Doing an ra28 myself down in limerick. I've a build thread up here too. where on the island are you based?

Wonder could we start a thread for all the irish and english lads so we could share parts etc

Nice to see another celica in Ireland. have a look at mine forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=10529
she needed a bit of work, dont be put off by any rust, keep at it, Mine is currently being painted, looking forward to the refit,

Thanks for the kind comments guys. I'm based in Monaghan. It sure is hard to get bits over here, they are all rusted out, I was lucky the guy I bought the car off had it for years and had bought the panels years ago for the restoration. Also came with new front bumper and rear tail lights and set of emblems and some other bits. But there are still plenty of bits to get and slowly I am coming across them! Takes time and money. And pat and rockey I've been watching your builds and you are doing some nice work. Wish I had my welding done, as you said pat the rebuild is the nice part

Bloody hell all those bits are worth a lot of money!
I know a guy looking for a bonnet at the moment but where to get one I wouldn't even know where to start!
As for a new front bumper, dam!
Been contemplating seeing if I could get wings etc etc sent over in a crate at some stage but I'm sure cost would be huge