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This web page is kind of a "diary" for
all the past, current and
any future "Herbytoys" that make their way to my garage.
Below are my
current "projects".
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The current "HRBYTOY" and my
latest "toy" project, a '62 MK II |
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Purchased in 2001 to have a nice "driver" Sprite while still restoring my 63 and to give me something else to play with.
It's a 62 MK II (HAN6) with a DCOE Weber'ed 1275, nice BRG
(British Racing Green) paint and Minilite style wheels.
As usually happens with too many projects this
has now become the only Sprite project More pictures and info on the Spridgets page. |
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CLICK THE LOGO TO JOIN THE FUN ON THE SPRIDGET LIST
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After 14 years of the R/T I decided it was time for a change. |
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I started out looking for an small SUV
like maybe an RAV 4 or Subaru Forester. Reminded that we really need a truck
I thought, well a Ridgeline is kind of an SUV with a bed. Plus it's still an "RT". Well, actually an RTL. |
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a 2010 RTL with Navigation, roof rack and running boards. The previous owner
added a folding style tonneau cover from Bak Flip. Color is Polished Metal Metallic,
basically gray with a bluish tint. These pictures were taken at the dealership
the day I bought it. Can you tell I bought it at Dublin Honda?!! Amazingly a great dealership transaction. Kudo's to them. I've given up the HRBYTRK plates because I didn't want to pay the fee anymore. |
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I've already added LED headlight and yellow fog
light bulbs.
The door courtesy lights and cargo bed lights have also been changed to LED. Also a few window decals to personalize it. |
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| Future plans are fairly minimal. Borla exhaust, 20" wheels & tires (summer use) and possibly an audio upgrade. | |
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| Family Camry |
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| The "Family Camry", our '98 LE that I upgraded with MR2 Wheels. I also added tinted windows and a factory in-dash 3-CD changer. |
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Future plans are 16" wheels, upgraded speakers and more power to the audio system, alarm and fog lights. Not much, just enough to make it little different from all the other Family Camrys out there. | |
| 04/01 Update: Have added a polished aluminum strut bar and a Viper 600 alarm. Purchased "takeoff" 16" Avalon wheels and now shopping for tires. |
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06/02/01: Installed 205/55-16 Bridgestone RE950's and the Avalon wheels. Nice tires, quiet and help the Camry handle quite well. | ||
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The audio upgrade has been accomplished. The Hifonics Zeus Z700 5 channel amp is out and the Hifonics Warrior Eagle 200W 4 channel (@ 4Ω) was dumped in favor of an Audiobahn A4004T for the Orion Cobalt "drop-in" speakers w/3Ω voice coils(6.5 front & 6x9 rear). A Clarion SRV303 120W amplified subwoofer handles the bass notes. This change was made to allow use of the back seat pass thru. I augmented the bass with Aura Bass Shakers powered by an Audiobahn A2002T. All wire and connections are KnuKonceptz. The Whiteline sway bars front & rear have been dropped from the list but the Hella foglights did get installed. |
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| 11/07: Installed 215/55-16 Michelin Primacy MXV's on the Avalon wheels. I wanted a little bigger tire although would have preferred a 50 series. The car does ride a little better though. JBL speakers (components up front) have replaced the Orions. The new subwoofer is done too. See the updates on the audio page. | |||
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08/11: The clear coat on the roof and
trunk was flaking off and it looked like hell. Finally decided to get it
painted. Went to MAACO. I know I shouldn't have but it came out decent. Good
paint match (although too much metallic) and minimal orange peel.
With the new paint I decided it needed chrome wheels. Found a style that
both my wife and I liked, Platinum
Saber in the 16x7. Installed them on the
215/55-16
Michelin Primacy MXV's which still have good tread.
10/11: I decided it needed some clear lens lights. They look great. Still need to adjust them correctly.
05/18: Finally got around to fixing the strut bearing. Since the Camry now has 80K (in 20 years!!) I decided to just replace all 4 struts. I picked up front and rear Monroe Easy Struts (comes with bearing hat and spring) from Rock Auto and installed them over the holiday weekend. It fixed the strut bearing rattle but created a new noise, a banging in the front end. Cured that next weekend after replacing sway bar frame bushings (I already had them in the parts bin). I also modified the stock rear sway bar links with some modified Energy urethane bushings. Feels much tighter now. Next up, A new set of tires. |
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