JDM TRD Sport M headlamps for sale [Archive]

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evil eye

11-24-2005, 06:19 PM

Some of you may have seen this already, but some of you are not the for sale forum whore that I am. This guy's from the UK and wants serious cash for them. Check it out:

http://newcelica.org/forums/showthread.php?t=195500

This may be a once in a lifetime kind of opportunity, so Eric I expect you to jump on these. :chuckles:

trdcelica008

11-24-2005, 10:50 PM

Ya eric is deffinately not very excited about them at all

KARacing

11-24-2005, 11:22 PM

Didnt someone make a fake TRD Sports M headlights a while ago?

Speed4TheNeed

11-25-2005, 05:35 AM

^^ Eric (Tater) did. They looked pretty much exactly like that and the quality had to be at least somewhat close to it. We almost bought his car when he was selling it..he lives the next neighborhood over and speaking from personal experience it was first class stuff.

I could have had just the inserts (what you see on the TRD Sports-M) for $375. Now I'm kicking myself. Didn't realize so many people would pay that much $$ for them. He wound up selling the molds, I'm not sure to who though.

Vulcan2422

11-25-2005, 07:09 AM

I actually have one of his molds that were produced. when it gets to my house i will take some pics of it. I really wish i could put them into production but from what i heard Tater got really made if people duplicated his products.

evil eye

11-25-2005, 10:39 AM

Vulcan2422

11-25-2005, 11:24 AM

Speed4TheNeed

11-25-2005, 01:06 PM

Ya eric is deffinately not very excited about them at all

Woops, I meant SLOWICA, not Bad Celi. :D

I actually have one of his molds that were produced. when it gets to my house i will take some pics of it. I really wish i could put them into production but from what i heard Tater got really made if people duplicated his products.

I don't think Tater cares anymore because #1, he sold the molds, so what did he expect? and #2, he doesn't come to this site anymore.

Tater cared when Jtultra made the JDM console navi fillers, but that's only because he was still around selling stuff.

He sold his car and now drives an s2000 I beleive. The last time I saw his car, it was sitting in a Honda dealerships parking lot waiting to be sold. He parted most of it out except for the veilside bodykit, though. The rest of the parts sold pretty fast, most of them on here. He told me he was "getting out of the modification scene because he was expending way too much time & energy on it." Which would be true.

Vulcan2422

11-25-2005, 01:16 PM

well i mean thats what happens when your making molds and everything. But he was still making some money from it as well which helps. Maybe i could be the next molder or something lol

evil eye

11-25-2005, 03:11 PM

Well then since he doesnt come around F it. Maybe i could go in with like top shop for a CF mold or something. I know if i post this in the JDM forum i will at least get a better respone from it. Anybody be interested in a set of them?

Actually, you may get a better amount of interest posting a new thread in the appearance forum. Only because what you would be making is not truly JDM, only the style is. That and the appearance forum sees more traffic.

SLOWICA

12-02-2005, 09:27 AM

I'd like to get these but it just seems like this auction thing could get out of hand and I have yet to see a picture of these things...

evil eye

12-02-2005, 12:32 PM

Good call. I backed out when he laughed at $1,500. :ugh:

import~mobility

12-02-2005, 06:50 PM

Why in the world would these headlights sell for $4500.00 new?
It probably cost TRD $50.00 to make them. I would consider
selling my car and upgrading before I made the commitment of
buying headlights for that kind of money.

Speed4TheNeed

12-03-2005, 04:07 AM

^^ The materials probably cost $50. You know how OEM's are though, they don't use temporary molds. They probably had to buy a $100,000 machine to push them out and since they only made a limited number of those cars it pushes the price up. I'm sure Toyota is making a handsome profit off of them (actually, I'm positive they are), but at the same time I'm sure they were expensive to make.

Seven-Of-Nine

12-03-2005, 05:11 AM

At the end of the day products are only worth what customers are willing to pay else they will not sell. Regardless how rare or expensive they were at first manufacture.

Speed4TheNeed

12-03-2005, 02:46 PM

^^ Very true. Gotta love free market economics.

Vulcan2422

12-04-2005, 12:25 PM

At the end of the day products are only worth what customers are willing to pay else they will not sell. Regardless how rare or expensive they were at first manufacture.

You are exactly right with that. But oh well....the person that buys them for like 4k is a moron. Plus they are used so it should sell for less.

Tater

12-14-2005, 10:23 PM

Hey, guys.
I haven

Carbonized_GT

12-14-2005, 11:12 PM

oh man! i could be interested in this. so there is no way you could make me a set of headlights and taillights. crapcrapcrapcrap

lilcoop_69

12-15-2005, 12:17 AM

dayum!!!!! that is nice as hell and looks jus like the sport m's!!!! ummm.... would it be possible to add HID's to them also?

Carbonized_GT

12-15-2005, 12:18 AM

i hope whoever buys these molds reproduces them.

redlinee46s3

12-15-2005, 12:20 AM

dayum!!!!! that is nice as hell and looks jus like the sport m's!!!! ummm.... would it be possible to add HID's to them also?

Since both are projectors you can either swap the projectors out to real hid projectors or you can just add two hid kits.

lilcoop_69

12-15-2005, 12:25 AM

very nice indeed.... i bet you would be killin oncoming traffic with two sets of HID's.... :chuckles: :chuckles:

redlinee46s3

12-15-2005, 12:31 AM

very nice indeed.... i bet you would be killin oncoming traffic with two sets of HID's.... :chuckles: :chuckles:

If in true hid projectors and aimed correctly, it shouldn't a problem. It'd look weird though seeing four projectors coming at you, plus a set of fogs (illegal to have more than two sets of lights on at a time).

many

12-15-2005, 07:50 AM

Tater do you still have the mold for the the raised M-style scoop?
Id be down to buy this!

NeverGod

12-15-2005, 08:17 AM

Someone Buy This!!!

evil eye

12-15-2005, 09:30 AM

Wow, Tater's back from the dead! :chuckles: I remember trying to buy your headlamps when you were parting out, but someone beat me to it by buying everything you had up for sale.

04GTS

12-31-2005, 12:57 PM

sorry fellas these bad boys are mine.

pnoy

12-31-2005, 01:10 PM

sorry fellas these bad boys are mine.

can't wait to see you sell it in a few months.

04GTS

12-31-2005, 01:27 PM

sell what?

lilcoop_69

12-31-2005, 02:21 PM

sorry fellas these bad boys are mine.

how much did they run you?

evil eye

12-31-2005, 03:45 PM

sorry fellas these bad boys are mine.

What did you buy? Tater's replica molds, or the actual Sport M headlamps that snuffy was selling?

lilcoop_69

12-31-2005, 07:18 PM

sorry fellas these bad boys are mine.

What did you buy? Tater's replica molds, or the actual Sport M headlamps that snuffy was selling?

x2.... damn, i would like to buy tater's setup though... very nice

se168us

12-31-2005, 08:41 PM

I'm interest it too

04GTS

01-01-2006, 05:15 AM

I bought all his molds and basically everything he had on them. look out for them sometime this summer.

Carbonized_GT

01-01-2006, 05:29 AM

what do you mean look out for them? you reproducing them and selling?

04GTS

01-01-2006, 08:11 AM

well I am making my set and see how they turn out and go from there.

blitzceli

01-01-2006, 09:15 AM

I bought all his molds and basically everything he had on them. look out for them sometime this summer.

Ill buy the sport m molds from you after you attempt yours

lilcoop_69

01-01-2006, 12:03 PM

well I am making my set and see how they turn out and go from there.

nice.. make it happen man... you will probably have a lot of customers depending on the outcome :thumbup: