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General Category => The Chill Out Room => Topic started by: RobbieMcVee on March 10, 2008, 10:27:44 pm

Title: wide body on ebay
Post by: RobbieMcVee on March 10, 2008, 10:27:44 pm

NO sure if any of you have seen this one yet

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Toyota-Celica-GT4-ST-205_W0QQitemZ110232478565QQihZ001QQcategoryZ18290QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

This was in for sale only a few weeks ago in Midland car sales (or something like that) for 8k - makes me wonder why its being sold so quick?
I was going to have a look at it when it was up - anyone got any clues?

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: ChrisW on March 10, 2008, 10:35:27 pm

Engine bay different colour to the body?!?!?

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: paul_gt4 on March 10, 2008, 11:33:51 pm

its different though and pics do hide alot of things about cars and tend to make them look better than they actually are

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: Vikkigt4 on March 12, 2008, 11:12:37 am

if it's an import they don't tend to paint the engine bay the same colour as the car do they? mine isn't - it's like a primer weird beige colour lol

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: ChrisW on March 12, 2008, 12:57:44 pm

My import was all one colour when I got it (certain mods have meant that there are subtle differences now), including the bay.

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: paul_gt4 on March 12, 2008, 03:41:53 pm

my womans puma is set in primer the early puma's all came like this, and i do know of a few mates imports are the same as well

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: Driveby on March 15, 2008, 04:50:24 pm

Ford dont like painting engine bays, lots of manufacturers dont paint door bottoms these days either.

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: paul_gt4 on March 17, 2008, 05:18:30 pm

suppose every little saved could be a fortune in the long run, it was just the early pumas were left in primer the latter ones were all painted

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: Coyoteboy on March 21, 2008, 01:21:44 am

All GT4s came with painted bays? Suspect it was stripped and resprayed when the extensive kit work was done. Looks fugly if you ask me. I hate people trying to turn these into street racer cars, thats not what they are, they dont look good like that and it spoils them. IMO.

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: barty50 on March 24, 2008, 10:28:43 pm

Quote from: Vikkigt4 on March 12, 2008, 11:12:37 am

if it's an import they don't tend to paint the engine bay the same colour as the car do they? mine isn't - it's like a primer weird beige colour lol

The engine bay on my silver import is beige as well!!

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: bazza2541 on March 24, 2008, 10:30:41 pm

Painted engine bays are a trend pulled from rallying. We always paint the engine bay in a light colour, helps to identify nasty things like oil leaks.

Title: Re: wide body on ebay
Post by: peterp1per on March 24, 2008, 10:35:57 pm

toyota engine bays are always painted in the coloured base coat of the overall colour (that'd be a dull but identical colour to the body). tis an easy way to spot body repairs as bodyshops always top coat the repair work whereas toyota didn't as stock ;)

if it's any other colour i'd say it's deffo had a full body respray