Kyle's '77 Celica

Kyle had learned to drive stick shift in my Scion XD, but that was a couple years ago.  We used an industrial park near our first overnight stop, for a refresher.  After maybe 45 minutes of looping around a couple of turnabouts, we hit the interstate. Our first lunch stop was Nutty's Junkyard grill in Arlington, WA Kyle needed to brush-up on his stick-shift driving, before hitting the road The exhaust leak was right at the manifold, which was missing a couple of studs A box of generic pop-tarts was about the right height, to hold up the exhaust during a repair attempt A continental divide, somewhere in Montana I believe The old man on the right gave us directions to bypass the interstate for a bit A sunset Filling up near Sturgis, SD Representing Japanese imports at Sturgis 2016 Lunch at Wall Drug We rode with the windows down and the heat on, to ke...

My son, Kyle, had been searching for a first generation Celica.  When he told me that he had found one near Seattle, I kinda dismissed it at first (we live in Chicago).  After looking at the pictures and talking to the seller, we decided to take a chance.  We flew to Seattle  on Saturday, purchased the car Sunday and took our time driving home through Thursday.  The car is extremely solid, but definitely needs interior work and a better paint job.  We only had to add about 1/2 quart of motor oil during the 2100 mile journey. We visited the gift shop at the Space Needle before leaving Seattle. We removed the spoiler after the trunk lid bashed my head.