Well headed out to pick up my first car today.... Very nice 1974 TA22 celica with:
* 2TGEU 1.6 LITRE TWIN CAM ENGINE SWAP
* NEW SPORTS EXHAUST
* NEW CLUTCH
* NEW CARPET
* REUPHOLSTERED FRONT SEATS
* NEW SPORTS STEERING WHEEL
* KENWOOD CD PLAYER
Dad hates the thing lol.... needed a new battery on the way home and i need to replace the alternator tomorrow morning because its stuck where it is, but i can do that myself lol. Needs new tyres too but ill get some good rims first! Its good fun to drive and very loud lol. I love it. Type TA22 Celica into google images and that's the beast, havent got around to taking pictures yet. Only issue is that its not really much of a windsurfing car!!! cant really fit anything in other than uni joints and wet suits etc. Ah well i can always use dads ute.
Well had to share it with someone ha ha...
Cheers
Bubs
Great Vintage Bubs,
Same as my Missus first car,even year. That was a blue one.
Mine was a '72 HQ wagon, which got stolen in Tassie while full of windsurfing gear. I found it 3 days later and the only thing missing was a wettie!! The car had no locks or keys, just turn the barrel and go.. AAh, they were the days
mind you I'll never sail in the Tamar river midwinter without a wettie ever again.
Nice work Bubs,
My first car was a '79 celica, they're beasts hey
Get bomb insurance, don't worry about full insurance 'cos if you're anything like me you'll write it off in 6 months 
You'll learn heaps about cars, and have a ball. Enjoy
well luckily my uncle is a mechanic and his always been into getting nice cars and making them look awesome etc. ive been having so many phone calls with him and stuff. so should be a great learning experience for me. just all the bloody extra stuff kills u... 3 month rego, $160... new battery, $100... insurance, probably around 200-250... and the list goes on. Dad said if i want to be responsible and own a car i have to take all the responsibilities like that. but its all worth it lol.
Cant wait to get going.
Cheers
Bubs
Congratulations Bubs. One of the first steps in life to becoming independent.
Im a bogan and love a good looking car. Anything but a fraud (ford) yuk
My cousin had a two page write up in the Autotrader yesturday with his current restoration.
Lets hope you restore that beast to look like one of these
Nice one! Good luck to you!
I just got my Learners'....again...I could have my licence by the end of the year... 
My car Beats yours bubs next time connect your battery better haha Hope you don't get in to much trouble with it.
save money on rims and get more Gear !!!
if the seats lay flat.. fits the gear in.. or the girls.. which is the priority ??
ha ha not much will fit.... doesn't have one of them holes through to the boot to poke things through but its a little two door thing so wont fit anything. The ute it is!!! good fun though and ill just keep working on it myself to get it up to scratch. A set of cheap rims will make it look a sh** load better and i got to get into all the wireing first up because it all kind of "everywhere" lol. but next time were at goolwa for the summer ill bring it down to show you dave ha ha. it will hopefully be well on the way by then too.
Bubs
I had a nice white 1974 Mazda RX4 Coupe of the same era around 1983-84(?), they were a very similar car in category and appearance (sweet looking cars even today), mine had had fat tyres and looked hot. As far as windsurfing gear on top it's the only place you can fit it, boot was for wetties, clothes, harnesses and spares and change of clothes (jumper) and a case of beer.
I had good quality wide Swedish (not Thule, the other one) racks, worked well even though the bars were only 2 1/2' apart. Took it for a trip to Merimbula from Sydney, 2 wave boards (max 8'10"), 4 masts (one-piece), 4 booms, 2 sail bags with 3 sails in each. I was not a slow driver and at one over taking pass I nervously got past 140kph and maintained good time most of the way. Nothing looked like blowing off or breaking. Can't beat gutter racks for strength!
We only checked our gear twice on the way down. No hassles at all. Sold it 1 1/2 years later, wish I kept it. That Rotary motor went like stink in every gear when you hit the power band, would be worth a few bob nowadays.
my first car was a 74 corolla,
so many great times, whern times were tough and petrol was hard to come by i'd pop it in neutral and coast down all of the hills in an effort to save enough money to go windsurfing.
you can get a lot of gear on the roof. i had a 12" pvc sewer pipe with caps for all of the sails strapped to the roof racks. boards, booms, mnasts all went beside that.
once i managed a one design, raceboard and shortboard on the roof no probs.
of course, car starts to look a liilte small under all of that gear.
Nice one Bubs, still the best Celica model. The top blue one in the pic from greenroom has had a 3t-GTE conversion, which is a fuel injected twin cam turbo toyota motor (actually a GZE with a non factory turbo conversion) A very nice mod that I understand fits in very well.
I'm with you greenroom, I'm a bogan from way back and proud of it...as long as it's not a blue oval i'm happy.
Very nice, my first car was a 76 celica, and did plenty of miles (yes the speedo was in miles) with a big tyronsea firebird strapped to the roof racks. Never came off once, you get pretty good at stacking stuff on the roof.
(kids do the same [}:)])
Hey Bubs my first car was a 1967 Toyota Corona that smelled like a bong on wheels as I bought it from a stoner for $300. Anyway, first thing I did was take the back seat out and hey presto, I fitted all my gear bar the mast and board inside. It had a cross brace for strength behind the seat but it was easy to negotiate the stuff through it. At a pinch I could even put a one piece mast in and just have it sticking out the passenger window. If I was using a short enough board i even got that inside too. It was nicknamed the Maui cruiser as one day I saw a pic in an American Windsurf mag of the exact same car but on Hawaii with 10 boards strapped to it's roof and hundreds of windsurf stickers all over the windows just like mine and the caption read, the Maui Cruiser. Thankfully mine wasn't quite as rusted as that one though. It had 2 speeds, slow and slower and I killed it driving up the freeway to Belmont one day. Blew the engine up, had the rubber band wound up so it was hauling along at 130 then whammo, smoke everywhere and a piston through the block. I then got a Valiant which had one of the biggest boots I've ever seen.
haha panda dont worry i dont like supra's i'd rather the v8 soarer in my garage anyday
Mine was a 81 starfire corona wags 
Rolled it & wrote it off on my 18th birthday, then got it goin again.
It smelled, was hot, broke down alot, guzzled fuel and oil but it was fun and I liked it.
Ah Richie and Vando.... your showing your age...how do I know???
My first car was a Datsun 200B Station wagon...great for windsurfing..and great for learning how to repair rust with bog...
.great for windsurfing..and great for learning how to repair rust with bog...
a speed race board....
and a windaction slalom????
and is that an alloy mast i see?
for you old timers what boards are on my trailer.