12/14/2023 0 Comments 1982 toyota corona![]() ![]() I sent the car to a friend’s work to suss the rust in the boot. Visors were replaced with some from pickapart as the standard ones were tatty.Ī dash-mat was made to hide the cracks in the dash. I am a bit of a perfectionist sadly so I went straight to work tidying little odds and ends. I was certain it would get failed on suspension, but some how it got through… so I carried on sailing the roads of Canterbury with some wicked body roll. Replaced rocker cover and manifold gasketsĪdd a sump bung washer to stop oil leakingĪnd straight through WOF it flew. On The way home I also worked out the suspension all round was rooted as the previous owner had removed the springs for the images in the above post above. A few areas around the boot seal became apparent, but me being me haggled the price slightly instead of walking away. A wheel well half filled with water was a bit of a giveaway and prodded around the boot for some clues. I knew it would have more and boy I was right, yet I didn’t know how extreme till later down the track. It was advertised as having no rust apart from some surface rust under the bonnet and 2 spots near the boot. Stone chips and a few imperfections were apparent but none of this worried me. The exterior was fairly straight but the paint was showing its age. I wasn’t a fan of the 1g-eu and it was leaking oil from every orifice, fixed to the auto box = a gradual 0-100. The interior was mint minus a crack in the dash and the centre vent. I will update this thread over the next few days hopefully upto where it is now.įrom inspecting the car all the electrics worked, even the fender mirrors. Note that the following pictures are from the previous owner. So what’s the first thing to do when you finish studying and have a job….buy a 80s Toyota that’s what.Īlso the pictures of the cars potential with some low and some simple SSR mk1s that the previous owner had put up on the sale post pushed me along. Zeb then opened my eyes up to all the 80s Toyota goodness and .nz (however I didn’t follow oldschool till many years later). After a few weeks I worked out the owner was in my course, and that’s when I meet Zeb. But a guy just down the street didn’t think so yelling out something like “Buy a new car you. A Cream Toyota Cressida Waggon scraping down the main street, ring a bell? I was lost for words, it was fucking amazing. So I move to Dunedin to study and a certain car catches my eye on my first day down there. However this then changed at the age of 16 to the Celica XX/GA61, (8 years later this is still the dream car sadly). I brought the Car in September 2015, 2 years agoĪs a kid I always drew pictures of cars and the dream cars were the A80 & A70 Supras. The car then went through a couple of hands in under a year before finally reaching mine. She then passed the car onto her granddaughter’s boyfriend. The other was sadly lost before my ownership. She even wore leather driving gloves, which I still have one of, and resides in the glove box. She used the car as her daily as I believe and was apparently always garaged. ![]() Japan import 1982 Toyota Corona Mark II Grande GX61 (pre-facelift sedan).ġG-EU, 2-litre, 6-cylinder, automatic with over drive.įor the majority of its life it was owned by a Lady in her 70s-90s. But since breaking my collarbone a week ago whilst skiing I have found time to finally put together a build thread to hopefully catalogue the cars journey. So I have been scanning Oldschool for a few years but I don’t pipe up much. ![]()
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