Rare 1981 Toyota Celica Chop top for sale

[kyle.gooding]

I have a 1981 Rare Toyota Celica Chop top I need to find more info on it i was told by some guy that works at toyota that its one of 5 left it has 53,00 miles on it. i drive it everyday it has little to no rust on it it runs amazing so if you have any more info on it plz let me know and it is for sale if someone wants to get it for a steal

[Bitter]

search toyota celica sunchaser

[kyle.gooding]

Originally Posted by Bitter

search toyota celica sunchaser

dude the thing is its not a sunchaser its a chop top and there was 900 made

[Bitter]

well what are you trying to figure out about it?

[stepho]

Can you be a bit clearer about which type it is?
To me, a chop top is a car that has had the roof section lowered.
Toyota never did this from the factory.
It is occasionally done as a custom conversion by individual body shops.
I have never heard of any company doing this to 900 cars but I willing to hear about it.

Tell us what info you have on it and we can see what corroborating evidence we can find.
Can you provide photos of the car?
Can you provide photos of the ID plate in the engine bay (hide the serial number if you want)?
Does it have any special compliance plates?
Any paperwork?
Anything pointing to a particular company that did the work?

Cheers.

- Stepho

[kyle.gooding]

Originally Posted by stepho

Can you be a bit clearer about which type it is?
To me, a chop top is a car that has had the roof section lowered.
Toyota never did this from the factory.
It is occasionally done as a custom conversion by individual body shops.
I have never heard of any company doing this to 900 cars but I willing to hear about it.

Tell us what info you have on it and we can see what corroborating evidence we can find.
Can you provide photos of the car?
Can you provide photos of the ID plate in the engine bay (hide the serial number if you want)?
Does it have any special compliance plates?
Any paperwork?
Anything pointing to a particular company that did the work?

Cheers.

- Stepho

toyota sent 900 cars off to amc in 1981 the cut the top off and made it a full convertible it has a 22r in it and its one of 5 left i dont have to much info on it im trying to find someone who can tell me a lot more about it you can see photo of it on my facebook my name is kyle gooding http://www.facebook.com/kyle.gooding thats my facebook page hope this helps the car photos are in my new Album..

[kyle.gooding]

Originally Posted by kyle.gooding

toyota sent 900 cars off to amc in 1981 the cut the top off and made it a full convertible it has a 22r in it and its one of 5 left i dont have to much info on it im trying to find someone who can tell me a lot more about it you can see photo of it on my facebook my name is kyle gooding http://www.facebook.com/kyle.gooding thats my facebook page hope this helps the car photos are in my new Album..

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?s...880.1014576085

[Bitter]

says unavailable for me.

[stepho]

Are you sure it was AMC?
ASC did a similar thing although I thought they started with the 82 model year (but US style model years confuse poor Australians like me)

Anyway, the ASC version looked like this:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~stepho/...ian-Sunchaser/
That's actually the Australian version but the American version of the Challeger Sunchaser was made by ASC post-factory with Toyota's blessing by chopping the tops off coupes and sold through Toyota dealers.

Here's a few more post-factory convertibles:
1980 Griffith http://members.iinet.net.au/~stepho/brochures/Celica/80 Celica Griffith Hatch-22 p1.jpg
1980 Grandeur - http://members.iinet.net.au/~stepho/...-Grandeur-SLR/
1981 Tropic - http://members.iinet.net.au/~stepho/...many-Tropic-1/
1983 Matrix3 - http://members.iinet.net.au/~stepho/...3xx-US-Matix3/
198? Schwan - http://members.iinet.net.au/~stepho/...cabrio/p01.jpg

And for completeness, a bucket load of other Celica brochures:
http://members.iinet.net.au/~stepho/brochures/Celica/

- Stepho

[stepho]

Oh yeah, forgot to say that your facebook photos only show for friends.
I've requested to be friends as 'Wayne Stephenson'.

- Stepho

[MR2Jedi]

Originally Posted by Bitter

says unavailable for me.

Same here.

[4Cyl'erThriller]

Im voting
Something seems off here....
Although I am interested in seeing WTH he is talking about. Anyone who gets a pic please post. THX

[kyle.gooding]

Originally Posted by 4Cyl'erThriller

Im voting
Something seems off here....
Although I am interested in seeing WTH he is talking about. Anyone who gets a pic please post. THX

how do you post photo because ill post them if i knew how

[kyle.gooding]

American Custom Coachworks of Beverly Hills, California, produced approximately 900 full convertibles. These are 4-seaters, retaining the back seat, and do not have a targa-top and integrated roll bar. A fire at the company several years later destroyed primary sources of historical records. All that remains are secondary sources in period literature and the few example cars that have not been sent to the crusher.

[4Cyl'erThriller]

Get a free photobucket or similar account Upload pics there. Get the direct link then copy and click the little picture paste the direct link there and you have your pic. NVM
Read this link it should show you what you need to know. You should be able to figure it out from there.
How to post pictures