I know I can hardly believe it's back in one piece again!
The blue is the factory paint color that was on the 83-84 Celicas - Blue Metallic (896). The original Celica I had back in the 80's was a blue 84 GTS that I bought used in 1988. Even though this one is an 85 GTS I look at it as being my old car with a few upgrades and I always wanted to have it blue. Well, this is the silver lining in the accident... it provided me an opportunity to have the whole car repainted and there was really no question in my mind about getting it painted in the blue color I had all those years ago.
The painter at the shop told me he was a little skeptical about using this when I gave the 34 year old color code, but he said he could mix it to the factory spec and shoot a couple samples to compare to some newer colors. When he got it mixed and shot, he actually really liked it a lot. So much that he's probably going to use that on something else sometime. And, he's no longer laughing at my 80's paint color!!
All I really know is that I have my blue Celica GTS back!!! It's not just some mythical vehicle I used to tell my kids about all these years, it's an actual car in my garage they can see and touch and ride in! It's more like a long, lost friend has come home... I couldn't be happier!
And it's BLUE!!! 
