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Well after a year of living on the property and putting up with stone chips and constant threat of hitting some sort of wildlife in the skyline i finally took the advice of fair few people to get myself a runaround car.

I had been looking around fairly half-arsedly for a few months but while looking for a new paddock basher recently (we've killed 3 cars out here so far :)) i came across an RA28 Celica for sale. I had to have it!.

Yesterday i bought it and drove about 400km in it :)

Anyway here are some pictures of it:

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Mate of mine driving it, it was good motivation to get his RA28 back on the road (Star33's old one)

I thought it was funny that a car that cost 1/5 of the skyline got more attention in one day then i have ever received in the skyline. People were leaning out of their windows to look at it on the parkway, people on the street were pointing, someone in a commodore even took photos on their camera phone and gave me a thumbs up!

Also while driving it back to Murrumbateman it was the first time in the nearly 2 years I've owned it that someone else has driven my skyline and i finally got to hear the exhaust on fly-by. Dam hot. Also i went to Crusty Demons with free tickets that put me in seats two rows from the front in the very center aisle seated perfectly between the jumps. bragbragbragbragbrag.

Yesterday was a very good day.

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I must say, i used to be a Celica fiend in high school, though not the mustang shape! :0

RA22 gave me chills in Yr10.

Nice run about dood!! Ppl used to put the 2L Toyato 6's them. Magin Rb20 screem, Toyota style??!!

Skin prickling Jelous!!!!!

PS: I see more and more NSW'ers in the ACT section... *ponders* :)

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Shell - haha no i sleep in a caravan and live in the house. The house is just to the side. House wasn't big enough for me, my mum and sister so me and my sister rocked off (scissor paper rock) to see who got the caravan, i lost and now i over-heat in summer, freeze in winter and have to bug-bomb it every few months because of giant arse huntsmans :laugh:

BNR - Post some pics up! Couldn't really afford a real mustang as a run-around car anyway :P

GeeTR - The TA22's look too much like datsuns haha (not to say datsuns look bad :P Theres a datsun in the background of some of the pics) . I've seen a few videos of people with 1-J's in RA28s and even one with the V8 Soarer engine, but i'd have to buy another runaround car if i did any of that. Wouldn't mind replacing the engine with the 18R-G from other celicas though (fuel injected DOHC)

Star - I'm still 50-50 on making it special but if that was the case the skyline would have to go and i'd buy a charade to end the cycle :P

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Shell - haha no i sleep in a caravan and live in the house. The house is just to the side. House wasn't big enough for me, my mum and sister so me and my sister rocked off (scissor paper rock) to see who got the caravan, i lost and now i over-heat in summer, freeze in winter and have to bug-bomb it every few months because of giant arse huntsmans :laugh:

BNR - Post some pics up! Couldn't really afford a real mustang as a run-around car anyway :P

GeeTR - The TA22's look too much like datsuns haha (not to say datsuns look bad :P Theres a datsun in the background of some of the pics) . I've seen a few videos of people with 1-J's in RA28s and even one with the V8 Soarer engine, but i'd have to buy another runaround car if i did any of that. Wouldn't mind replacing the engine with the 18R-G from other celicas though (fuel injected DOHC)

Star - I'm still 50-50 on making it special but if that was the case the skyline would have to go and i'd buy a charade to end the cycle :P

You will be better off with this... Its more modern and you can do stuff to it. Anything i do to the mustang other than restore her, is just wrong. Thus i have a skyline.

PS, great choise :)

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:laugh: effectively my car is just mooching off the presence your car creates. Like one of those fish that sticks to a whale

Every time i look out the window and see the car i have the urge to sell the skyline and focus on the celica... not good

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Nice new wheels :D

Living in a caravan sucks... Did it for 2 years while we worked on our house :| Our dunny was a porta-loo in a cubby house made or rotting wood. I still check the underside of the dunny seat for spiders out of habit no matter where I am *traumatised* lol :)

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:D effectively my car is just mooching off the presence your car creates. Like one of those fish that sticks to a whale

Every time i look out the window and see the car i have the urge to sell the skyline and focus on the celica... not good

hahah i love those fish..!

If anyone cares.. I almost sold my car and have a 67 crown in sight.. but in the mean time I'll just be a crustacean and eat the crap that from falls from the whale. :)

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Were you sitting on bens lap or was ben sitting on your lap. Because obviously you wouldnt take photos while driving :thumbsup:

haha no, Ben was at home at that point. Pics were taken on the way back down to Canberra because Jamie didnt have time to drive out to Murrumbateman. Pretty much i held the camera up and started taking potshots without looking where i was aiming. Hooked camera up to computer and kept the good ones.

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Living in a caravan sucks... Did it for 2 years while we worked on our house :| Our dunny was a porta-loo in a cubby house made or rotting wood. I still check the underside of the dunny seat for spiders out of habit no matter where I am *traumatised* lol tongue.gif

Don't think i could handle that, i used to do that all the time when i was about 12 or 13 after living in S.A for a while and actually seeing a red-back under the seat... The Huntsmans in the caravan are ridiculously big and they are always near my bed. The amount of times i'll do a check, go to bed, lights off with TV on and I see a big-arse spider running in the glow of the TV... Wish i'd taken some photos of them, one of them was about the size of my hand and had me cornered in the doorless side of the caravan.

haha Star, i was signing up for one of the toyota forums and saw you selling the vitara there aswell as looking for info on different engines in crowns. Which is the best celica forum to join? Cannot find a wiring diagram for the RA28 either, driving without a stereo/ with a cassette player is very boring...

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