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Ebay-Celica GT-S APEXi 3SGTE DOHC16v GT4 AWD-scam?

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Old 08-18-2005 | 11:23 AM
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Default Ebay-Celica GT-S APEXi 3SGTE DOHC16v GT4 AWD-scam?

unfort, i think someone got the pics and is now try to scam someone into thinking this car is for sale....... would be an AWESOME street car.....


http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/Toyota-Celi...569526745QQrdZ1


the auction says "contact me before bidding" and they have zero feedback.



Old 08-18-2005 | 11:54 AM
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I don't know, whomever it is is being awfully forward with location and contact info.
Old 08-18-2005 | 12:08 PM
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It's approxamently ~3 miles from where I am sitting right now. i am going to send them a email and see if they will let me come out and look at the car.
Old 08-18-2005 | 12:27 PM
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Interesting... a couple wrong things in there. 1 the 3sgte is a 2liter definitely not a 1.8. I also noticed that car to be identical to the one that was on the cover of motortrend 3-4yrs ago oslt that a company built and valued it at 100k. Im interested to see if this is legit or not.
Old 08-18-2005 | 12:55 PM
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Rod Millen built this, I believe (or his son). It was actually pretty slow from a dig (hard to launch, I think) but faster once it got rolling. Neat idea, even if the nose is ugly.
Old 08-18-2005 | 04:40 PM
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if it is street legal, it would be pretty awesome to have....it has a plate on in that one picture.
Old 08-18-2005 | 06:06 PM
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This could possibly be legit, I am going to go see the car tomorow, if I like it I might just buy the darn thing. I have owned weirder things before.

I have been tracking a sportech for a long time and some chevy converted ferrari's lately but this would be cool if it truly is street legal.
Old 08-18-2005 | 08:33 PM
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This is turning out to be a scam or a very very very wary seller. I might just head out there tommorow and check it out.

Seller respones quickly though and to be honest with a car like this he might just be getting email from every SOB under the sun and getting stressed out.

I need to get more information, car interest's me enough to warrent a little more digging, and the asking price is low but not low enough to make it a absolute screaming deal.
Old 08-19-2005 | 03:48 AM
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the auction has been removed.....so.... appparently it was a scam. They did put some effort into though.
Old 08-19-2005 | 04:11 AM
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haha. i just clicked the link and the listing has been removed by ebay...


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