Hi all,

 

I just realized I haven't made a thread for the wife's RA60 yet... We've had her almost a year!

 

Anyway the story started with the March 2010 Hail storm.

Our beloved Avalon copped a hiding in the storm, hundreds of dents in the roof, bonnet, boot and both sides.

 

After she was classed as a write-off and our insurance (with gap cover) paid out the loan we had on her we decided we didn't want to have another loan.

 

We did a bit of searching and waiting and found a one owner 1982 Celica for sale.

The lady selling her would have been in her 70's and absolutely loved the car.

As the car had lived it's whole life is Scarborough it had a bit of rust around the windscreen, the interior however was like new!

She didn't want to sell her "Cecilia" but she could no longer get out of the low car without help.

We promised her we would take good care of Cecilia and get the rust fixed.

 

My wife decided to rename the car "Mumbleweed", Bumblebee's "special" cousin

 

Notice the tape around the windscreen and rear quarter windows

 

The weekend after we brought Mumbleweed we entered her in Theo's run, a yearly run from Perth to Dowerin ending with a show at the Dowerin show grounds.

 

Here she is 3rd row from the front, taped in windscreen and all

 

We got plenty of positive comments, rather surprising when she was sitting next to an E-type Jag and a Monaro

 

A few months after this we stripped her down and fixed all the rust.

We were going to keep the colour original but changed our mind and went with a brighter yellow.

Seeing as we weren't sticking with original we put red pearl over the top

I haven't taken any decent pics of her since then so I'll get some soon.

 

Last week I managed to score some MA61 rims for her!

Center caps are all perfect

 

This is the offset with the original mags.

 

And here with the MA61's.

 

Just need to get rid of the silly stretch fitted 175's and put 195's on them and they will look great!

Edited January 4, 201313 yr by 67Rolla-Ken

Last weekend I scored a donor car for Mumbleweed... $300!

All complete except engine is partially stripped.

 

 

The mags look great on Winona Rona :)

Not bad in yellow.

Why'd you stick this in the Non-Toyota section ???

 

Sweet looking car looks pretty straight :y:

The wheels turned up then :yes:

 

I was a bit worried when I dropped them off and the guy was like "no worries drop em here I'll send em off" :laff: :laff: :laff:

 

They sure look the part on the car :cool:

Thanks Luke, just going to get new tyres then on they go. They're in great condition!

 

OK changing over the exterior passenger door handle today as the bolt had pulled out and the handle nearly falls out in your hand.

 

Got the handle out of the donor car easy enough

 

Then had drama's getting the bolt from the old handle out of Mumbleweed, the metal was bending before the bolt would turn :bash:

 

Ended up using a hammer and chisel and nut cracker to try and loosen it then I could just get the multigrips onto the nut.

 

Started to put the replacement handle in and the nut pulled out of that handle as well :bash:

I've put a heap of loctite on the nut, hopefully that will hold...

 

Just waiting for that to set then I'll put it all back together.

It's soooo much harder working on a car that you don't want to damage the paint :P

Edited May 1, 201115 yr by 67Rolla-Ken

I give up... the glue let go as soon as I tried to do the bolt up :(

Edited May 1, 201115 yr by 67Rolla-Ken

 

A couple more to follow... had a shoot on Sunday, this is not edited yet.

Used about half a bottle of wax on her! :lol:

Mmmm...shiny & MA61 goodness! :yes:

 

Looking nice, hope you "test drive" it for the Mrs when you need to :wink:

 

Parts cars are awesome! :y:

Thanks, we've got some of the edited photo's now... colours look amazing!!

Edited Pic :D

 

MA61 rims are fitted :y:

Ohhhh, I like! Like the Rear end!

Nice. The rims on the rona are the same as the ones on my KE55 now.

Big news on the Mumbleweed front... I should have some pics tomorrow, stay tuned!

Here is the worst photo I got of her :D