uncle silvia Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 (edited) Hi all :yes: Yes I know ive posted this in the rides section but I thought Ide put it here too to fly the GB flag LOL :sigh: 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 :P ............ 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!!! ;) Anyway, heres some pics :yes: My Future plans.......... :y: Edited September 22, 2007 by uncle silvia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
raceflorolla Posted March 10, 2007 Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 (edited) Hey welcome to rollaclub :P Very tidy looking Ke70!! So straight and clean, especially the boot and engine bay! Wish mine was the same! ;) Pity about the rust in the door... Sam Edited March 10, 2007 by raceflorolla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle silvia Posted March 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2007 Cheers for your comments ;) The rust will be going and it will be all shiny soon!! Just had our first few days of usuable dry weather so ive started to polish her up :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoulSearcher Posted March 11, 2007 Report Share Posted March 11, 2007 hiya Scott! That's a really tidy car! It's good that it was saved from the scrap yard! If you don't mind me asking, what did it cost you?! You'll have to keep everyone updated as you do your mods!!! Lesley ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD ke70 Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 kt's a proper jap one as well, check out the chrome bumpers ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRD ke70 Posted March 12, 2007 Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 It's a proper jap one as well, check out the chrome bumpers ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle silvia Posted March 12, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 12, 2007 My car is a full UK spec car and has been in my local area from new (1981) with one owner!! Ive polished up the chrome bumpers now and they look like a mirror :y: :P Just finishing polishing up the rest of the car today! I will post up some "shiny" pics when we have a nice sunny day LOL!! ;) 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 much 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...
SIKE 70 Posted April 23, 2007 Report Share Posted April 23, 2007 Looks f@$king overrated mate. Nice find indeed! 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...
smacko84 Posted October 3, 2007 Report Share Posted October 3, 2007 looking good mate, just fix that rust and drop it! keep it up Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Willie Posted October 25, 2007 Report Share Posted October 25, 2007 Awesome grab there,Thats a very sweet looking 'rolla. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
anastasios Posted April 10, 2008 Report Share Posted April 10, 2008 yupp lower it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Golberg Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Check out the instrument cluster, notice that there is an analogue clock in the top left. I'm pretty sure that here in Aus we only ever got digital clocks there or a little Toyota logo depending on if you had a tacho or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle silvia Posted September 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 1, 2008 (edited) UPDATE Well its about time I did an update to my little KE project!! Unfortunately since the last update, it looked like this just before christmas after my neighbour drove into it in my street :fuzz: .................. Well its finally been all fixed up and has a few new additions :fuzz:................ New front bumper, end caps, front lip spoiler and the front panel fixed..... New rear bumper, end caps and rear lights............... My retro Japanese Sat Nav :fuzz:........ My custom tax disk holder :cool:........... Edited September 1, 2008 by uncle silvia Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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