uncle silvia Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 (edited) Hi all :dance: I'm Scott and live in the UK. My other car is a full drift spec Nissan Silvia (see pics!), but its a bit harsh on fuel to use every day for work, so I went looking for something cheaper to run, interesting and must be jap to use as a daily driver!! I never expected this :hmm: ............ Here is my 1981 Toyota Corolla KE70 1300 that I picked up last week!! This car is so clean and origional, I couldnt believe it when my friend brought it around! It was owned by an old gentleman that passed away and his family just took his car to the local scrap yard! The guys at the scrapyard thought it was too good to scrap so sold it as a whole! A friend of mine knew i was after something "old skool jap" and when he saw it in the yard he told me about it! To cut a long story short............ Its now mine :thumbs: . This car has all the O/E parts and lots of bits like Toyota floor mats, tool kit, Books etc and even has some maps from 1981 lol!! Its in really good condition to and only has some rust on the bottom of the drivers door!! The car looks like nothing has ever been inside it and nothing is used, broken or worn!! These cars are getting silly rare in the Uk now and are very hard to come across!! Because of this there arnt many resourses over here for these cars, so this web site looks amazing for a lot of info!!! :P Anyway, heres some pics :dance: My Future Plans........ Edited September 5, 2010 by uncle silvia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Des Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 Holy shit, Look at those seats so clean. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Teddy Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 WOW ! thats insane!!!!!!! Love it :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anastasios Posted March 7, 2007 Report Share Posted March 7, 2007 yesss get some superlites on it! ultimate uk look Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LINDSAY Posted March 8, 2007 Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 FARK thats a tidy unit there guv!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev Posted March 8, 2007 Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 Thats very clean, When do you plan on running it in :P Id say thats its first 54,xxxkm's, Anything in the log book to state wether it is or not? And HOW MUCH :hmm: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Taz_Rx Posted March 8, 2007 Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 Thats very clean, When do you plan on running it in :hmm: Id say thats its first 54,xxxkm's, Anything in the log book to state wether it is or not? And HOW MUCH :dance: They're miles on the odom. not Km. since it only goes to 99,000 aswell I reckon its already be around the clock at least once. whats with the radiator position as well???? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev Posted March 8, 2007 Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 Eh i only scrolled down, seen the numbers and km/h and it looks too clean to have 248,000 kms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle silvia Posted March 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 8, 2007 Nope its a genuine 54000 miles from new, one local owner!! ive got the Toyota service history to prove it!!! The great thing about the UK is loads of old cars are owned by old people from new and they hardy ever use them!! The 41000 mile service was carried out in 2000!!! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle silvia Posted March 15, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 (edited) UPDATE!! Right.... as you know i pulled it out of a scrapheap just over a week ago, Ive not done any work to the car except polish it! I took it for its MOT test today, and........................ ....................IT PASSED!!!! Nothing wrong with it at all!!!!!!!! :yes: My mechanic told me that it was lots cleaner than the 2004 Rover he MOTed after mine :D Edited March 15, 2007 by uncle silvia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trev Posted March 15, 2007 Report Share Posted March 15, 2007 Gotta be happy with that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teza40 Posted March 17, 2007 Report Share Posted March 17, 2007 WOW...in so neat and desirerable original condition for sure..have not seen one that good since they were new here in australia,very good save and find. mmm yes the radiator placement is odd,notice it runs a thermo fan by the loooks of it (no fan on engine)... good luck with keeping the rust demon away in the future.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle silvia Posted September 22, 2007 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 UPDATE!!! UPDATE!!! They are finally on!! The wheels I mean :P Ive been doing a fair bit of work to the little KE over the last few weeks and its really taking shape now!! Some of the grey stonechip on the doors is now white, the rubber door trims are now off and the wheels have now had a bit of a referb by myself! They are now on the car as from today with a lovely set of Yoko boots B) Next on the list is to get rid of the rest of the grey crap, sort out the rusty bits on the arches and get the thing slammed!! The project is slowly ongoing but heres some pics I took over the last few weeks and today............ Enjoy............. Wheel Referb: Finally On The Car :-) : Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Medicine_Man Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 Wow, Those wheels came up excellent, Looking good! :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HEKTIC Posted September 22, 2007 Report Share Posted September 22, 2007 (edited) edit: they started working :P very nice! now lower Edited September 22, 2007 by HEKTIC Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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