Toyota Celica GT-Four - ST205 (1995)
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After some nightmares getting his supplier to send him the right stuff, the guy doing my interior retrim is finally in a position to get it all sorted, so on Saturday I'm travelling up to his to let him loose on the car.
Pics to follow!
The ST205 has stayed in the garage for most of the time since the last update, apart from the occasional B-road blast. The car flew through it's last MOT in November with only one advisory, although a trip up to Blackburn to see my specialist reveals that the company that fitted my coilovers did a shoddy job and as a result the ball joints on the shocks are worn and need replacing, along with driveshaft boots and lower arms (£200 each, oof.)
I sold my MoTeC and O.Z. Chronos in the end, out of necessity really. A bill for fixing my M5 came in rather higher than expected...
Pics to follow!
The ST205 has stayed in the garage for most of the time since the last update, apart from the occasional B-road blast. The car flew through it's last MOT in November with only one advisory, although a trip up to Blackburn to see my specialist reveals that the company that fitted my coilovers did a shoddy job and as a result the ball joints on the shocks are worn and need replacing, along with driveshaft boots and lower arms (£200 each, oof.)
I sold my MoTeC and O.Z. Chronos in the end, out of necessity really. A bill for fixing my M5 came in rather higher than expected...
Lovely car, echoing the the posts above, their main problem is they are too heavy!!! I had a pukka Carlos Sainz and an ST 205 WRC. I would love another as a toy but I would remove all the carpets, soundproofing and fit a Perspex window kit to drop a few kgs. They are so well built it's laughable, but a tad on the porky side.
For the last year or two I've had a Recaro interior from a Mitsubishi Evo IV in my GT-Four. Well, the front seats anyway - the rear seats were facelifted Celica seats, and my door cards had been falling apart.
So, I took the car to a chap up north called Simon, who does a bit of automotive interior trimming in his spare time, under the banner of Hide 'n' Seat Interiors. I explained what I wanted, and he obliged for a bargain of a price, at least two thirds cheaper than other companies had quoted me.
And this is the end result:
More photos to follow when I've got better light, but the list of work was:
- New covers for the front seats, black leather with red alcantara centres, and GT-Four logo embroidery in white and red stitching throughout.
- New covers for the rear seats, the same as the fronts but without the logos.
- New door card inserts in red alcantara, with black piping and red stitching.
- Black leather centre armrest cover, with red stitching.
- Black leather handbrake cover, with red stitching.
- Black leather gearlever gaiter, with red stitching.
- Black alcantara covering on the centre console stereo surround and gearstick surround.
- Black leather sunvisors, with red stitching.
- Black alcantara covering the window switch panels in the door cards.
- Black alcantara headlining.
Unfortunately, Simon ran clean out of time (after working all through the night) so was unable to do the sunvisors, window switch panels or headlining, but those will be sorted in the near future!
So, I took the car to a chap up north called Simon, who does a bit of automotive interior trimming in his spare time, under the banner of Hide 'n' Seat Interiors. I explained what I wanted, and he obliged for a bargain of a price, at least two thirds cheaper than other companies had quoted me.
And this is the end result:
More photos to follow when I've got better light, but the list of work was:
- New covers for the front seats, black leather with red alcantara centres, and GT-Four logo embroidery in white and red stitching throughout.
- New covers for the rear seats, the same as the fronts but without the logos.
- New door card inserts in red alcantara, with black piping and red stitching.
- Black leather centre armrest cover, with red stitching.
- Black leather handbrake cover, with red stitching.
- Black leather gearlever gaiter, with red stitching.
- Black alcantara covering on the centre console stereo surround and gearstick surround.
- Black leather sunvisors, with red stitching.
- Black alcantara covering the window switch panels in the door cards.
- Black alcantara headlining.
Unfortunately, Simon ran clean out of time (after working all through the night) so was unable to do the sunvisors, window switch panels or headlining, but those will be sorted in the near future!
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