Ella's New Daily- Mx36 Cressida Pimp Wagon

[Ella]

Hey ladies and kentleman.

 

Yet another car yet another long boring story.

 

Anyways, With she who must be obeyed taking the RT40 as her own and it not really being a suitable daily anyways, i decided to start looking for something to suit my tastes.

 

the criteria was the following:

-it had to me big and comfy, as I'm a tall kent

-aircon and power steer were preferred,

-auto was a big must, i severely dislike driving in heavy traffic, and frankly I'm getting old and soft.

- preferably something big enough to tow my trailer a little more comfortably than my poor DX, its only a little box trailer but then again its only a little corolla.

- it preferred the idea of a wagon, but with no real locally available toyota luxo wagons i sorta gaveup on a MX73 wagon, and every time a crown comes up its rooted or expensive.

- of course it had to be a toyota.

 

Anyways i digress from my story, i have put the feelers out through my various channels, and managed to find myself this bad boy through good old douggie. Massive thanks to Douggie for finding this one for me!

Its a MX36 cressida wagon, four speed auto. grand total of four hundred dollars.

it has:

Aircon, with several components brand new and its icy cold!

4m motor, with very recently changed coolant and NO BHG! i kinda feel ripped off there, don't they all come with that as standard? feels good and strong too, found receipts in the car, motor was replaced with a reco unit about 10,000 ks ago!

the interior has a few small blemishes and needs a really good clean but most stuff works (but not the tacho ;) )

the front seats

exterior is pretty good too but both sides look to have had scrapes... some stuff missing due to damage, including one of the badges on the back corner (would kill for another!)

pretty much nothing that will stop it getting RWC straight away, well short of me lifting it up and checking out the front end. but it all seems pretty good from a quick look.

 

anyway this thread means nothing without pictures!

 

So here the obligatory front shot paint and stuffs not perfect but a good polish should help.

 

 

heres a rear shot, as you can see I'm in need of a tail light and its missing the badge on the back corner too, anyone able to tell me a wrecker with some of these? id be really keen to go get some bits!

 

 

heres some inside shots now

 

 

so yeah its mostly been very well looked after, and i plan on continuing this and making a few small improvements along the way.

Edited May 2, 2010 by Ella

[Ella]

 

and with this the last of my photos, you can see all the cars about the place, need to line them all up in the yard and take photos i think, although i wont be doing this until the RT40 is fixed cause i don't wanna push it ;)

[PHATKE20S]

Apparently it smokes up quite well too.....No respect for the wagz hey but now it will surely get plenty hey mate

[Ella]

lol, yeah i did one too in the back yard, i couldnt help it ;)

[Chobis]

Awesome. Damn you guys are cranking the old school Yota radness right now!

 

Great buy. ;)

[Doogs]

Sweet, quite a cool daily you have there.

[7shades]

Needs Chaser or MarkII badges :dance:

 

Its entirely possible that Teddy or I have the tail light... Will rummage through the stash and have a looky

[Ella]

Chobis: cheers mate, i got all i can handle for at least a little while, or I'm gonna need a bigger yard!

 

7 shades:that would be somewhat awesome if you did!

 

i want to get it roadied asap so i can stop driving my corolla... it really is horrible in traffic.

 

any ideas where i could get another badge for the same corner as the broken light?

 

or even a pair of chaser/mark II badges!

Edited April 20, 2010 by Ella

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Does shizzle my nizzle explain?

[Ella]

no but the state you were in last night does :dance:

[Ella]

well i have nice steelies and hubcaps sorted out, then need whitewalls to finish the dealio.

 

also have been in contact with a guy who does venetians.

 

so i need a vote here venetians or tints, either way need something to tone down the goldfish bowl effect of the car.

 

considering both to be honest but you wont be able to see the venetians very well due to the tints, so i dunno.

[7shades]

No joy at my end with that tail light man

[B.L.Z.BUB]

Ahh the mid week piss up.

 

Venetians on wags look sweet but might look strange if the fronts are tinted. Maybe tint the sides and just a rear venetian? Who have you found who does them, wouldn't mind one for Cop Bait.

[Ella]

shady: daym, maybe shoot a pmsky to teddy? or ay ideas where else i might find myself some rocking horse poop rareness :laff:

 

Reed:yeah man search on ebay... theres a guy who does them, i couldn't believe hed be able to do a set for the wagon, he has a listing for RT40 too :D

[7shades]

Yeah hit up the Tedman. He also has quite a stash :laff: