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That is indeed a pisser. As a side note my dad did not have one of these. However my uncle did and I remember going places in the back. His was white with red seats and it was pretty rad if I recall. Lingpost.

spent all day fitting some door belt line seals. it goes without saying that i cant buy any seals for the crown so i had to make do with what i could find. i found some generic lengths of belt rubber on "better auto rubber" out of auz which were close enough and i coupled them with some generic felt bump things that are for american cars or something which i got at an american car importer out by the airport. so, now we have some rubber bits, we have to make them stay on the car. i recesses the screw heads into the felt bit by just cutting away the felt part where the screws are. works well and the glass cant touch the head of the screw. drill holes in the door, screw the two rubber bits and the stainless trim on to the door. WAY harder than it sounds but got there in the end. i also put some sound dead material onto the doors while its apart. might get some more tomorrow and chuck some more in the doors. 2021-04-02_04-06-33 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-04-02_04-06-24 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-04-02_04-06-16 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-04-02_04-06-08 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-04-02_04-06-01 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-04-02_04-05-52 by sheepers, on Flickr

Bought a momo steering wheel for it. I am actually in love with it. Also I'm posting this from my spa pool.

got the bumpers back from chroming. these pictures do absolutely no justice to how good it looks IRL. 2021-03-23_06-53-44 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-53-54 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-54-02 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-54-10 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-54-17 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-23_06-54-24 by sheepers, on Flickr

this is all relevant to my interests. RELEVANT I TELL YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!

Turned out the vibration was tyres. I took the fronts off and chucked them on the balancer to check the balance and straight away you could see they both had big lumps in them. Weird. Because all 4 tyres did it at pretty much the same time. Fuck knows. Anyway it's fixed and here's a picture of a tyre so you've got a picture to look at.

Yea. Thanks man.

yea im still not sure. but, replacement ones aren't that expensive and i have some on order so i can switch around if i feel like it.

its coming along. im just tidying up all the little things that need doing. ive got some generic belt line rubbers coming for it then i can put the door cards back on. the bumpers are away being chromed and ill get them back in a week or so. not sold on the black center caps and i have another set on order should be here middle of next month. i drove it up the road to get some milk and i fucking love driving this thing, its fucking slow but its cool to just cruze along in and i can see myself doing a bunch of Ks in this as soon as i tidy u the last few things. believe it or not its still got a warrant! 2021-03-18_07-56-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-18_07-56-37 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-18_07-56-45 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-18_07-56-52 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-18_07-56-58 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-18_07-57-04 by sheepers, on Flickr

true.

what a bloody roller coaster the windscreen instillation turned into. got everything ready and Nick the sparky came and gave me a hand and we put the back screen in. then we went to put the front one in and it was way to wide at the top to fit any where near right so out it came. remember this is the same screen that came out of the car so what the fuck? closer inspection reveled some insights as to why the screen was a bit weird when i took it out. i never thought much of it at the time but the screen was sitting down in the bottom channel with what would amount to a gap (if it wasn't full of windscreen sealant) at the top. now i know why. so, sand the edge of the glass with a DA sander and 80 grit to remove the 3mm a side that needed to not be there in order for it to fit. 2021-03-13_02-57-38 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-13_02-57-47 by sheepers, on Flickr that took a total of 4 hours to remove the extra width from the screen. but, now it should fit. so i trial fitted it and all was well. except, remember the rear screen and how it was all good, done and dusted? yea well i used the wrong mastic and the rear screen had to come out and i had to clean the shit off everything and clean the glass and get it all ready to do again, except this time with the right sealant. so, take two. was all ready to re-install both screens with the right sealant and with the front screen fitting right, i just had to chamfer the edge of the glass where i had sanded it because it was a bit sharp and i didnt want to leave anything that could chip and start a crack. so i sanded the edges, just like i had been doing for 4 hours and the front windscreen exploded. 2021-03-14_02-17-22 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-14_02-17-27 by sheepers, on Flickr fuck i was pretty unhappy with life at that point. so cool, id broken both screens out of the car. good one. i cried into my beer for a while then i thought id just ask my mate if the parts sedan i had still existed. i had told him i was done with it and he could squash it about 7 months ago. lucky for me hes a lazy bastard and he hadn't got around to getting rid of it. so i went up to Kemeu this morning and got the front screen out of the sedan and now i have a front screen. its the same (read wrong and still doesn't fit) brand as the one i had but this time i sacrificed the pins that hold the trim clips and just mashed it in. so now both screens are in the car. the back one is super mint mainly because its a genuine toyota one and the front one is as good as its going to get. cool, that will do. 2021-03-14_02-17-39 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-14_02-17-47 by sheepers, on Flickr

its way easier just to repair the parts you need then screw the clips on when your done, just get the hole the right height. heaps of cars have the clips screwed on rather than using the little Pedestals.

and now this. massive thanks to the people who made this happen, @JustHarry for hooking me up with the joker who had it. Owen Flawes for agreeing to sell me his spare rear screen @nzstato for collecting it, packaging it up and sending it up to me, what a good cunt. but not @sheepers for breaking the first one like a fucking dick. 2021-03-08_05-49-15 by sheepers, on Flickr

still cant find any door rubbers. anywho today i made a parcel shelf. it goes without saying the old one was fucked but not as fucked as it should have been given that its 50 years old. as is the norm for this car with the old parcel shelf removed the steel was in perfect condition. i made a new shelf out of 18mm MDF because thats what i had. made it in two pieces because its close to impossible to get it in or out if its one piece. couple of bolts to hold it down and we're in business. tomorrow ill glue the carpet on and shes finished. 2021-03-06_04-00-50 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-06_04-00-44 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-06_04-00-37 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-06_04-00-29 by sheepers, on Flickr

im fairly certain that they are just the same as Basis and only sell a rubber strip that you then have to glue onto a steel backing piece.

i just had a look and they dont even have celica belt line seals any more which is surprising because they are pretty easily available now. so thats a no for Scotts .

Actually that was 20 years ago so they're probably both dead.

True, I bought the seals for my 23 from them. What a weird shop, two old barries bickering constantly whilst not listening to whey you want.

he didnt.

from the tiny photos it looks like they wont work. but thanks for trying, you can have a star.

belt line weather strips? is that what these fuckers are called? anywho, it should come as no surprise that i cant just rock down to my local toyota dealership and buy new ones off the shelf. i cant buy new ones off any shelf because they dont exist. basis sell a rubber bit which is similar and then you have to re glue it to your old fucked metal backing strip. no thanks. my 51 has some random aftermarket replacements that work perfectly but i have no idea where they came from they were just in a box of bits. SO, if you know of something that is close to these please let me know. im super sure that there are generic 70s american stuff that will work, i just dont know what it is. door is 1050 long and obvsly i need to be able to put a curve in it to make it work for the back windows. the stuff on the 51has slots cut in the steel so you can bend it which is why i think its some generic thing. 2021-03-04_07-11-05 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-04_07-11-13 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-03-04_07-11-21 by sheepers, on Flickr

ive messaged him. ill see if he gets back to me.

today was make a fucking stupid mistake day. the hubcaps are your standard cheap chinese rubbish "chrome" that will inevitably go rusty in a few months. i got a price to re-chrome them and it was a bit beyond the budget at 500$. each. so Richie suggested i clear coat them to try and make them last a bit longer and that sounded like a great idea to me. here is where things start to go wrong. for some reason i thought that i couldn't possibly spray clear straight on to the "chrome" because it wouldn't stick long term and i also got the idea in my head somehow that if i sanded them with 1500 the clear would magically make the scratches disappear. why the fuck i thought that i have no idea, it was approximately 1 microsecond after i started spraying the clear that it became apparent that the clear was not some form of wizard paint the would somehow fix the surface and restore the mirror like appearance. honestly, what the fuck was i thinking. anywho with this massive fuck up unfolding in front of me i had no choice but to suck it up and chalk this one up to blind stupidity. i had already inquired about buying another set of hubcaps so i had a spare set and im still going to get another set but the ones i have currently, they are fucked. until i feel like spending 2k on re-chroming a set of hubcaps. well, ive gone this far, i might as well paint them a colour. so i did. i painted them black because thats one of the few colours i have and i thought id just try it and see what they look like. nothing to lose...... and amongst all that fuckery i put the back bumper on and polished some trim pieces and stuck them back on. im super happy with both the bumper fitments and the time i spent fucking around earlier was worth it. so it wasnt a completely waisted day. 2021-02-28_04-33-50 by sheepers, on Flickr2021-02-28_04-33-42 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-02-28_04-33-27 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-02-28_04-33-19 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-02-28_04-33-13 by sheepers, on Flickr

made this go back on. 2021-02-27_04-51-12 by sheepers, on Flickr 2021-02-27_04-51-22 by sheepers, on Flickr also made the front bumper go back on but i didnt take a picture of that because im useless at remembering to take photos.

YAY!! ive found a rear windscreen! not so yay, its in Dunedin. so im going to have to figure out some way of getting it up here, preferably without breaking it. if you can help please let me know.