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snow globe Space Sphere, the Celica awed the world with its quasi-flip-up headlights and ability to drive in a straight line!
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24 hours of lemons
Jalopnik Celica Gets Into Race After Heroic Fix, Goes On Black Flag Binge
The '88 Celica GT-S, manned by Jalopnoids Andy Didorosi and Ben Wojdyla, showed up for tech inspection three hours and 22 minutes after the race began, then proceeded to rack up three black flags for what TheEastBayKid calls "hitting stuff." He also says they're "pretty quick when they're out there." And… oh, no! Late-breaking news from the track says the Celica "blew a hub and launched the wheel," and had to be dragged off the track. Damn! More » -
offbeat news
Can't Afford To Pay For That $16K Paint Job? Send Mom To Pick Up The Car
According to a shop owner who posts at TampaRacing.com, a customer asked for $16,000 in custom work on a base model automatic Toyota Celica of unknown vintage, and even fronted the money for the material costs, without actually deciding how he was going to pay for it. Realizing this, after four months of work, the Celica's none-too-bright owner apparently sent his mom to pick it up for him. More » -
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Now With Dynamic Aerodynamics: 1987 Toyota Celica
This ad might not be quite as painfully 80s as the Cocaine Factory '85 Duster Ad, but it's getting there. 1987 was the year the Celica was "improved" by going to front-wheel-drive and shedding the old funky angular look in favor of a more focus-group-friendly (i.e., bland) appearance. The Phil Collins-esque theme song fits this car the way profits from missile sales to Iran fit the Contras' financial needs! -
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down on the street
1975 Toyota Celica ST
After finding a pair of '77 Celicas parked on the streets of Alameda (this one and this one), I had a first-gen Celica drought that lasted the better part of a year. Had all the rest been crushed? Then I started catching glimpses of this red '75 around town, and I knew it was just a matter of time before I found it parked somewhere.
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Attack Of The Killer Lexus RX300!
It came from a northern Ireland supermarket parking lot, it had a lust for Porsche Boxster and Toyota Celica blood, and it would not stop until it had crushed both into submission: It was the killer Lexus RX300! Dun, Dun, DUUUUN!!!!! Local news reporters assumed it was the result of poor automatic transmission shifting skills, but those in the know won't be turning their backs on any RX300's any time soon... they're all out there, just waiting to crush your ride next.
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Subaru To Build Next Toyota Celica?
Those missing the RWD Celica's of yore can take hold of some gossip based on a rumor about the dead coupe getting revived with some mechanicals from the Subie parts bin. Going chronologically, the exciting gossip last August was that Toyota was going to use its new stake in Fuji Heavy Industries (Subaru) to help it build a small RWD Coupe, which everyone took to mean a new Toyota Corolla AE86. Now AutoWeek.nl has it that the rumored AE86 might be a suspected Celica.
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The Sette Mobile Lives On In Infinite Time
Seeing that '84 Toyota Celica in DOTS today triggered a vague memory of an Alameda Celica from back in the day, something having to do with high school. So I checked my Alameda High yearbook and, sure enough, there's a full page in the back featuring a Celica from the same era as our DOTS car. Several of the kids in the photo were my friends at the time, but I have no idea who owned the car or what the whole "Sette Mobile" thing means. But still- this Celica lives on in infinite time (and Sonjay "loves" the Surf Punks), and it may well be the same car I photographed a couple weeks back. -
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1984 Toyota Celica GT
It's been a never-ending challenge to find old Japanese cars for this series, but (in the months since the readers applied their Stamp-O-Approval to early-80s Japanese DOTS cars) I've been able to find a few of these Late Malaise Toyotas on Alameda's streets. This '84 Celica is somewhat frayed around the edges, but still in solid running condition.
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