Minnesota Focus Owners Club

Posted: **Wed Apr 15, 2009 11:25 pm**

so i thought i would start a sorta picture/build thread...i picked up a 1983 cressada as some of you already know, so for those who dont know its a inline fi. dohc 6cyl. rear wheel drive platform....
anyways here it is as i got it yesterday...not running or driveable...

and here after a trip to diagnostic hell and back (dont be knockin my nascar tires i needed them to move it)

so i will take more as soon as i get it home...

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 8:24 am**

good luck

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:38 am**

Pretty solid looking car for its age

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:11 pm**

Its got potential!

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 3:34 pm**

AWW shit now shake that ass, move it like a gypsy, stop, oh, back it up.....

Posted: **Thu Apr 16, 2009 11:48 pm**

Cool project, I had a 1990 corolla. I beat the piss out of it, and it amazingly never broke, too bad toyota stop making good/fun cars in the mid 90's.

Posted: **Sun Apr 26, 2009 11:11 pm**

so i have had the car about one week now and have started working on the only bad rust spot on the whole car, Pass. rear door was repaird at some point and was kinda lousy workmenship and rusted right in the middle of the lower panel... so i sanded it down to the metal around the rust spot

so after alot of sanding and a rust removel wheel i put down a coat of rust rust inhibitor (the purple stuff in the middle there)

after more sanding its time for the filler...

and then even more sanding, and a second coat of body filler...

little more sanding and primer...

not bad for a first timer ...now i just need to learn to paint

Posted: **Mon Apr 27, 2009 7:13 am**

closetfordfan wrote:Cool project, I had a 1990 corolla. I beat the piss out of it, and it amazingly never broke, too bad toyota stop making good/fun cars in the mid 90's.

You're kidding right? Toyota stopped making good cars in the mid 90's? What Toyota are you talking about because the Toyota I know will run forever.

Nice progress on the car. Get a build thread going!

Posted: **Mon Apr 27, 2009 9:01 am**

Doing good

As for painting its not all that hard to do. You could pick up a book at the book store. Its walks you thru all the steps.

Posted: **Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:41 pm**

look what i got today

now it gets fun!

Posted: **Thu Apr 30, 2009 8:56 pm**

I like where this is going

Posted: **Thu Apr 30, 2009 9:54 pm**

That does look like fun. I wish I had that kind of time.

Posted: **Sun May 10, 2009 5:00 pm**

My new wheels came friday

16x8 0" offset...god i can't wait till i get my suspension done!

Posted: **Sun May 10, 2009 5:04 pm**

No stretch? Fail...pssshh...whatever, I want my money back!!!

LOL j/k

Posted: **Sun May 10, 2009 5:07 pm**

its a small stretch 205-50-16 on a 8" wide wheel...

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