New Ride.... what? Everyone else was doing it! 56K beware

[VFX_Fenix]

My second vehicle, first car, and wow. I'm digin' it.







1984 Toyota Celica Supra

[paintballaddict_6]

Your pics are so small, I can barely make them out... cough.

[behemoth]

You from wales? or are you into the whole 'I'll put foreign plates on my car and try to act cool' dumb american kid thing...

btw, when posting pics like that use basc HTML to resize them...

>img src="url" width ="value"< (reverse the brackets, use something like 700 for a decent width..)

[VFX_Fenix]

Actually the car is originally from Canada and had that plate mounted when I took posention of it. No idea where the plate's actually from, but anyway. Sorry about the image size, I'd renamed the original files instead of the resized ones and uploaded the wrong set

Anyway, that plate is going away here shortly since apparently the previous owner has some sentimental value placed on it and has asked for it back.

About the only "lame" thing about the car is everything on the inside is metric. Speedo is in kph, odo and trip are in km, and the climate controlls are in *C.

[behemoth]

Actually the car is originally from Canada and had that plate mounted when I took posention of it. No idea where the plate's actually from, but anyway. Sorry about the image size, I'd renamed the original files instead of the resized ones and uploaded the wrong set

Anyway, that plate is going away here shortly since apparently the previous owner has some sentimental value placed on it and has asked for it back.

About the only "lame" thing about the car is everything on the inside is metric. Speedo is in kph, odo and trip are in km, and the climate controlls are in *C.

Since it says 'Wales' on it, and has the welsh flag on there too, my money is on FRANCE. <_<

[VFX_Fenix]

Canadian sticker on the inside of the door says otherwise ^_^

[behemoth]

Canadian sticker on the inside of the door says otherwise ^_^

I'm talking about the plates, mate. ~_^ T.T <_< -.- >_> d-.-b (^'.')>

[VFX_Fenix]

you forgot the (")~

Anyway, I didn't put it on there, I don't care about it, jump down someone else's throat or just calm down

Anyway, isn't Wales in Britain?

[MarkM]

The plate is from 1983/4. Very unusual to be a left hooker though especially since the Speedo is KPH, not unusual for Canada obviously but for a NEW car to be registered in the UK but specced for the European market. The direct imports from Japan, we call them grey imports are Japanese spec but the steering wheel is on the same side as the UK all we have to do is add a rear foglight and throw away the radio as the frequencies are wrong for here.
Incidently the plate comes back as not existing so that would fit with an export. It is entirely possible a Canadian bought the car here knowing they were going to be going home, though I can't see that they would have saved much if any money unless at the time Supra's were very rare in Canada, I know you don't see many still on the roads over here. Strange thing is the Flag plates were not made until long after this car was registered so someone has definately replaced the plate.
All of the new cars have MPH on the outer ring of the speedo and KPH on the inner ring and have done for many years. the last car I had where it was only MPH was a 1975 registered car, a car I had that was an A plate was 3 years old when I got it and that had both the MPH and KPH, I don't know when Canada switched to KPH but I really did think it was well after 1984.

*edit* That car although it seems to be Welsh was registered in North Yorkshire.

[kevdupuis]

The plate is from 1983/4. Very unusual to be a left hooker though especially since the Speedo is KPH, not unusual for Canada obviously but for a NEW car to be registered in the UK but specced for the European market. The direct imports from Japan, we call them grey imports are Japanese spec but the steering wheel is on the same side as the UK all we have to do is add a rear foglight and throw away the radio as the frequencies are wrong for here.
Incidently the plate comes back as not existing so that would fit with an export. It is entirely possible a Canadian bought the car here knowing they were going to be going home, though I can't see that they would have saved much if any money unless at the time Supra's were very rare in Canada, I know you don't see many still on the roads over here. Strange thing is the Flag plates were not made until long after this car was registered so someone has definately replaced the plate.
All of the new cars have MPH on the outer ring of the speedo and KPH on the inner ring and have done for many years. the last car I had where it was only MPH was a 1975 registered car, a car I had that was an A plate was 3 years old when I got it and that had both the MPH and KPH, I don't know when Canada switched to KPH but I really did think it was well after 1984.

*edit* That car although it seems to be Welsh was registered in North Yorkshire.

Actually we went metric in 76 and everything here has had metric measurements in the predominant position pretty much since.
Canada eh!

[behemoth]

you forgot the (")~

Anyway, I didn't put it on there, I don't care about it, jump down someone else's throat or just calm down

Anyway, isn't Wales in Britain?

I wasnt jumping down your throat...

<('.'<) <('.'^) ^('.')^ (^'.')> (>'.')>

[VFX_Fenix]

Sorry, just seemed that way with the "dumb american kid" thing tagged on originally. Anywho.

[behemoth]

Sorry, just seemed that way with the "dumb american kid" thing tagged on originally. Anywho.

Thats what the kids do around here.

They put euro tags on their euro cars. Then get tickets for no front plates <_<

[wanna-b-ballin']

was that a sunny day or an average day? i went to arcata to check out HSU, and the nicest day we were there was like in those pics.

[PyRo]

Thats what the kids do around here.

They put euro tags on their euro cars. Then get tickets for no front plates <_<

They should get a ticket for a fake front plate. Then they can have the car towed, revoke licenses, and do all kinds of other cool stuff