Build Battle: Epilogue - We Broke The Celica

In this Epilogue to the d:class Build Battle, we go through all the changes the Celica has received over winter to get it in tip-top condition for the 2023 show season.

We left off the previous Team Old School episode at The Reunion show where Andy showed us around the "completed" Celica. It came down to the wire but as you saw, the team managed to get an almost complete car to the show. Once the Celica returned to d:class HQ, a plan was made to retrim the rear of the car and make some areas more permanent.

So the plan was to retrim all the black carpet in the rear to tan Dinamica, retrim the door cards as these weren't finished in time, install all subwoofers, speakers and amps properly, make a permanent stand for the Nos bottle and get the car detailed ready for show season.

So, now for a little explanation about the title of this video. On the way to The Matt Finish, Andy and Jon struck a deer which was already laying in the road on the M25. It was at night, in the middle lane, and totally unavoidable. We think that we were lucky to have a flexible bumper, as it seems to have prevented the bumper from shattering. most of the damage is stress fractures in the lacquer where the bumper flexed so much. Other than that there is a small chunk of the bumper missing which will need to be filled.

However, deer aside, the car now looks absolutely amazing and we can only thank all of our sponsors for helping us achieve this.

In order of appearance in this episode, we would like to say a huge thank you to Phil from Wire Monkey for installing and wiring in our speakers, subwoofers and amps. One of the amps was removed and replaced with a holder for our Meguiars show care kit bag.

Next, Matt from The Matt Finish took the Celica in for a huge detail, correcting the minor imperfections that naturally come from a busy and dusty body shop. So a massive thank you to Matt for making the Celica look the best it's ever been.