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I love me some old Toyota goodness... I miss the days of vinyl everything interior. A female friend of mine had a bright yellow one in highschool. We had nicknamed it the Bumblebee...
DO IT DO IT DO IT
oldeskewltoy wrote: got a friend with a 77, he is swapping in a 7AGZE
so, hold on...ummm wait...the bottom end of a 7A fitted with the rotating assembly of a 4AG, a 4AG head, and a supercharger? its like the ultimate hybrid! I never really thought of that
4cylndrfury wrote: eh...much bigger fan of the '72
That and a red Volvo P1800 were our family cars when I was growing up.
mad_machine wrote: proof that toyota once built pretty cars
The irony is that a 70's-80's era Celica suffered the same issues as their "today" cars. When compared to the competitors the Toy's were overweight, (sometimes) pretty faces that couldn't perform.
The Scion TC is a great example............
It is funny how tastes change and some designs turn out far better when they have had a chance to mellow for a few decades. This was the kind of car that everybody I knew drove in high school in 1987 and I no one liked them.
We wanted either something sporty like a GTI or a muscle car and late 60's Novas were the cheap V8 cars to have at that time, must have been 25 of them in my high school parking lot.
Man! Now that I think about it my late 80's HS parking lot would be a modern car guys dream. Late 60's Novas and Malibus a plenty. All the rich kids drove hand me down fintail mercedes, RWD 70's toyotas made up 30% of the total and aircooled VW's were another 30%. Always 5 or 6 60's mustangs, the occasional hopped up 70's Rabbit and the weird kids were rolling in modified Volvo 122s.
And Honda Aero 50's were everywhere!
wow.. not sure where you went to school.. but when I graduated in 89.. the parking lot was full of late model cars with a handful of older beetles
I love the liftbacks. Sure they look like baby Mustangs but that's not a bad thing in this case. I would love to put this body kit on one...
..stuff a 1UZ-FE V-8 into the engine bay...
... and upgrade the suspension with AE86 parts.
In reply to mad_machine:
Here in the central Willamette valley of Oregon. Combine roads that have never seen salt with a local economy that was centered around an industry that suddenly died (logging) in 1985 and you had a population that couldn't afford new cars and a large amount of serviceable older cars on the road.
If there was a new car in my high schools parking lot back then it was a $99 down Sentra. But that would have most likely been a faculty car.
sethmeister4 wrote: Saying these look like baby Mustangs is the greatest complement a Mustang could ever get!
especially considering that is the era of the Mustang II?
4cylndrfury wrote:oldeskewltoy wrote: got a friend with a 77, he is swapping in a 7AGZEso, hold on...ummm wait...the bottom end of a 7A fitted with the rotating assembly of a 4AG, a 4AG head, and a supercharger? its like the ultimate hybrid! I never really thought of that
7af block with a 4ag head... and a 944 timing belt...
mad_machine wrote:sethmeister4 wrote: Saying these look like baby Mustangs is the greatest complement a Mustang could ever get!especially considering that is the era of the Mustang II?
All I'm going to say about that is that the Mustang is still here...
driver109x wrote:4cylndrfury wrote:7af block with a 4ag head... and a 944 timing belt...oldeskewltoy wrote: got a friend with a 77, he is swapping in a 7AGZEso, hold on...ummm wait...the bottom end of a 7A fitted with the rotating assembly of a 4AG, a 4AG head, and a supercharger? its like the ultimate hybrid! I never really thought of that
AND an SC14 running with O/S crank pulley. Estimates for this 7AGZE are about 170#/ft @ about 2600 rpm, with a peak of about 230#. Hp @ about 250 peak
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