Ben-89

Your ideas sound preety cool Karl, Like you said if you paint a nice white you don't have to worry about painting the engine bay, boot, and other areas as there already the same colour. Without being bias, a fresh bright white would give the car clean look, along with a thorough detailing of the engine bay with some degreaser, polish and armour all to finish it off and give it the shiny new look to complement the exterior. That's what I did with my ke70, polished the entire body outside, did the door jambs and thoroughy cleaned the engine bay. Like I said, its only a suggestion to help with future ideas etc. Either way I think you car is going to look preety neat anyway. I will try to put up a photo of my engine bay.

Thanks Karl, some of grandpa's influence rubbed off on to me in regards to maintaing the originality of cars. Especially this one!! As far as mods go, this car is much too original or good to me to modify in any way. All I do is garage it with a cover on it and take it out on the occasional drive. It's clocked on 129,8XX, close to 130,000 km. I basically want to keep the km's low. Going by the photos, you would assume it's the cs model, as it has the pinstripes and chrome trims on the wheels. But infact it's the se model, that had the plainest body with no dressings. So the car in the past has been optioned up a bit with genuine accessories. This one also has the blue vinyl inerior that is unmarked, not cloth or veleuor that are more common to see. Glad you like the car.

The wind deflectior is a acquired taste, you either like it dislike it. Glad you liked the car anyway. The objective with this car is to give it the original looking appreance. As mentioned in the previous post, a ke70 options brocure gave me the ideas to add these accessories. When I got the car it already had some genuine options/accessories on it, Starting with toyota embossed mudflaps up front with embossed corolla at rear and remote boot release. Later on I added a genuine early model ke70 LH mirror, chrome wheel trims, charcoal/dark blue seat covers, rear venetian and headlight covers. Later on with a white paint marker I outlined the outer circle of the tyre wall, for all the tyres to give it an old school flavour that wasn't too strong, as I wouldn't call them whitewalls.

Hi, as Karl mentioned the car is coming along nicely, Are you going to paint the car the original dark metallic blue? or are you thinking of a colour change?

Hi, the Seca looks preety clean and original on the outside. You will notice that the Seca or other Corolla's of this model are quite comfortable for a car of their size and age on a long drive. I've got a 1985 model cs hatchback as a daily which is original on the outside and inside, apart form ae92 sx wheels, which has 332,000 km and is so comfortable to drive, and tight aswell. More photos would be great.

Hi Karl, welcome, the corolla definetley has potential there. Apart from the 4age engine conversion, what other plans do you have for the car?, Are you going clean up the exterior a bit and give it the stock look, or paint it a different colour etc?. Good photos too, keep us informaed of any updates.

Thanks for the fast replies, the ke70 is nearly 100% original, with the exception of a car stereo upgrade in the mid 80s, and an external electric antenna. Every car that grandpa had always had a windshield on the door, so three years ago when I was at pick a part I spotted a ke70 that had one, so I bought it. After I bought it, I gave it a good clean and I went over to visit and I put it on the car. Then later on when grandpa came out he saw it and was absolutely stoked! A few months later he became unwell, but could drive if he had to, unfortunatley after that he was diagnosed with cancer and was too weak to survive it. That was when his legacy was passed on to me. Like grandpa, I like things kept original too, when he was alive I remember asking him If could put some decals on the car, along with some dress rims. And if it wasn't the thing that was specifically original for the car he would say no. But when I would show him the ke70 options brocure he would quickly say yes. After the go ahead, I did the searching around the wreckers and eventually came across a set of dress rings which I polished up, then after that I started looking for a sign writer to make up my decals. With the decals, I got the colour matched to the existing navy blue pin stripes, and the style of the writing matched to the Corolla badge thats on the boot. These were put on the car shortly after, and grandpa loved it. My daily driver is an ae82 hatchback that is a fantastic little car with some go, This like the ke70 is a manual but a 5 speed and a 1.6 litre ohc engine. Today the ae82 clocked on 332,000 km and still goes. Mind you, the car spent 19 years of its life up in the country before being sold to pick a part in campbellfield, then coming to us. For a car with that many kilometers, it is still quite tight.

Paul, as always your panelvan looks awesome and keep up the good work!

Hi my name is Ben and I'm new to the forum and have been involved in Corollas quite a long time. I currently own two Corollas which are a ke70 and an ae94. The ke70 gets taken out every month or so just to get things moving, It used to belong to my granpa before he passed away two years ago and left it to me. More details and pictures to come, hope to know a lot of you enthusiasts soon. PS sorry for leaving the cruise last sunday early