07 3dr HB aka Mr. Bubbles aka Skittle

[nookandcrannycar]

The car spent the first years of its life parked outside in the hot and burning Florida SUN of a retirement home. So the clear coat of the car started to give out

This is one reason I make certain to maintain enough room to park my (also 07 3-door Bayou Blue 5-speed manual ) Yaris in my garage.....to keep it (as much as possible) out of the SE Texas sun .

[chapabig]

Originally Posted by bronsin

Sounds like the PERFECT acquisition!

Thank you sir, Im really hapy whit it so far

Originally Posted by nookandcrannycar

This is one reason I make certain to maintain enough room to park my (also 07 3-door Bayou Blue 5-speed manual ) Yaris in my garage.....to keep it (as much as possible) out of the SE Texas sun .

I know, Sun is so bad on paint, but i guess is better than snow and be dealing with salt aka RUST

I love this Bayou color by the way. I cant wait to install my DF210's and hopefully get some nice wheels

Also, here is a different picture of the rear. (its actually in mid day and rain and condensation out of the picture lol

[nookandcrannycar]

Originally Posted by chapabig

I know, Sun is so bad on paint, but i guess is better than snow and be dealing with salt aka RUST

I agree .

I love this Bayou color by the way.

The color has grown on me. I was on a trip in my previous car and came to the conclusion that I had about 500 safe miles left on the steering rack. I'd already decided to replace my 2001 Swift with a Yaris. I plopped myself down in Chicopee, MA. In those days (2006) the Cars.com link member roxy1 provided earlier this year (that can pull nationwide inventory on one search) didn't exist*.......so I had to search individual dealer websites. I searched the inventory of every Toyota dealer in the U.S. Northeast and in California (my state of residence at the time). I won't tell you how long this took . There were only 5 manual transmission 3 door examples of the Yaris in the entire Northeast! I ranked them by desirability (color, options, etc.). The color I wanted most (at the time) was Meteorite Metallic. The car that achieved my #1 ranking (VIN # was listed for all of my searches) was Meteorite Metallic in color. It was located in Cambridge, MA. I drove to Cambridge and visited the dealer. I was told the car was still out on the boat and hadn't come to port . My #2 choice was my current Bayou Blue baby. It was located in Rhode Island. I immediately drove to that dealership and completed the purchase. The Blue Book on my Swift was literally zero/a big goose egg (even if it hadn't needed a new steering rack)....mileage penalty didn't help . A wholesaler happened to be at the dealership for a different reason and I sold it to him for a few bucks (after he let me rip out the JL Audio, etc. stereo).

* = If it did.....considering the amount of time I spent on the individual dealer sites .....I don't want to know .