77 liftback out of 20 year storage pics
Posted: April 8th, 2010, 3:18 pm
Hey everyone, I'm Alex. I brought my first car in New Jersey for $100, it was a 1980 Celica. That was 11 years ago, since then I've been on the look out for a first generation Celica... I found it last week. This 1977 liftback was one owner until 1989 when he passed away; subsequently his wife put all of his belongings in storage included the car until she passed away in 2009. That where a friend of the family bought it and got the mechanics back into almost perfect shape. It runs like its brand new, no exaggeration. I've test drove over a dozen Celicas in the So Cal area over the last three years and this one, all be it an automatic, is in the best condition by leaps and bounds. The interior is spotless, minus a carpet, but thats gone because of a leak I found out about over the weekend. Even the dash looks like it came off the factory line. Now to where the problems lie... windshield, fat crack down the driver side which isn't so bad. The rust at the base of the windshield is. I don't know how deep it goes and am afraid to look. It rained over the weekend and my cab filled with about an inch and a half of water. I saw dripped from under the dashboard (windshield rust leak, probably) and from the back side windows where i can see the seals have worn away. There may be rust behind those windows that i don't know about. Anyway, She's a beauty. Let me know if anyone knows where to get a replacement panel for the front under the windshield. thanks enjoy!!
the rust is that bad around the windshields as the rest of the car looks in such great shape. 
& GL with the project.