FlavouredMilk

Oh, sorry. I worded that wrong. The Festiva's registered, still has 7 months. I just can't drive right now....

The main problem is that I'm off the road at the moment anyway, the Festiva doesn't travel either. So cars at a greater distance are really unobtainable and I'm not looking to spend a lot. This deal is seeming more and more so a bad idea. You know what you're talking about and I know that it's all quite true. The Festy is worth more than his car anyway. If I could sell that first I'd easily have enough to chase something better.

I'm going to ask him to bring it around here today. Seems he wants to look at the Festiva. I can snoop a bit deeper at the rust and crawl under it and have a good look. Where we had it yesterday I couldn't check. I'm going to drive him down on the price, especially if he wants the Festiva. The project aspect of the Rona is just so appealing. I never wanted to really try anything on the Fest because I didn't have any taste for the car. If I can't find any more rust in the Rona and I like the feel of how it drives. Ill do it. If it is apparently worse than I first noticed, he can keep it. Also, where are you guys located?

You don't think it's worth it? I mean, I have to know. I'm an easily swayed person and everyone has been positive about it. But they haven't seen it. Only know what I know. The thing is, the Festiva isn't a great car itself. It was cheap, has nearly bald tyres, runs rough as guts some times and got broken into. Its not a well kept or tidy car itself. And I can't fit more than 1 friend in it. The only thing it has over the Corona is a lack of rust. It's between two buckets really. The Corona carries more and sends its power to the tail end and I'm quite partial to it. But if a shoddy little Festiva still seems better. I want to hear that. The way I've been looking at it is that the Corona has potential, at least as a fun car. The Festy is just very A to B. Do be honest though, all opinions matter a great deal. Also, it hasn't been sitting at least recently. He was driving it when he bought it 2 months ago. Several hour+ trips until the rego lapsed in November. So I'm hoping that speaks for its drivability and he's driving it here tomorrow if the deals a go, so its not a non runner at all.

The Festiva is a bucket. It doesn't have any issues, but it's a whole bowl full of lame. I've been thinking about it and I am pretty sold on it. There is rust, there is age, there is work to be done. But it's all minimal. Also, owning a Corona, that's all win. Now, I do have one question, and probably more, but for now I'm just curious what drives the cam in the 18R? Belt, chain, yanno? I want to change that quite quickly, along with a decent service. She's not tidy but I will do what I can to make her live on. With 351,000km on the clock, she needs loving. Anyway, now that I've decided on it. Has anyone got anything they reckon I should be informed. Common issues, quick fixes, things to watch out for, ways to keep her happy. Anything that will help. Cheers all.

Alright, so I went and down and checked out the Corona. The rust is a bit worse than I thought, not terrible but defitely not all that pretty, it has been without a service long enough for the oil filter to develop rust and the rocker gasket is leaking, no surprise. I just hope it isn't hiding further, worse oil leaks. Besides that it doesn't look too bad, she's 35 years old and it does show a bit. But it is a wonderful car. He wants $400 and my currently registered Ford Festiva. Tempting... Very tempting...

You know what you're talking about, I couldn't take that away from you if I tried. I'm a first year apprentice mechanic and all of those things will most definitely be attended to. I can't deny there are a few little things I do want to change, but I want to try and keep it as period correct as I can, and I gave been looking at some better wheels, those definitely are not the best suit for the car. Thank you for the advice, and if the lights aren't something that can be done correctly and legally, I wouldn't do it. Also, the interior is beautiful, I wouldn't dare change it. I'll show you all once it's home.

I work with an accredited inspector, so he'll be able to tell me. As far as I know, you're allowed yellow for fog lights, just not for anything else, but of course it can't be amber-ish. I assume that if I get a set for the outer that toggle high and low then the inner set would be fine to set as fog lights, or even just dummy lights with yellow lenses.

Oh, my mistake. That makes sense... And the fog lights I'm referring to are the two inner of the four head lights. I've seen only a couple with them, I imagine as the one I'm buying is it's a highs and lows set up. But I've seen these which look like a highs/lows for the outer and yellow lensed foglights for the inner. That's what I'm looking for.

So, this topic may be a touch premature, but I'm quite content with getting ahead of myself with this. I'm currently chatting to a guy who owns a 1979 Toyota RT130 Corona Liftback with the 18R engine and a 5 speed box. He is selling it due to having a few too many cars about. So, I'm going to go look at it tomorrow and if she's even half decent at the price he's asking, I think I'm going to sell my Festiva and jump on this deal. Now, I don't know a lot about the old Coronas besides the fact that the sedans were fitted with the miserable 1X aka missfire. But, seems as I won't be copping that boat anchor, I'm very excited to become the owner of a liftback Corona. Very. Excited. Now, I have questions! Firstly. I want to get my hands on a set of yellow foglights to fit in the housing, I'm sure you've seen them about? I don't know where to get them! And, the other, is there anywhere that still sells good TEQ parts? Here's a photo of the beast And a quick sketch of some ideas...