here is my 2 good coronas, i have 4 but the other 2 are just spares, i drive the green rt80 and i'm probs gonna do up the rt81 one day, not a great pic but still, i like the older coronas mainly because they are pretty uncommon, only really like the shape of the 1970-1973 ones though, but still any car done right can look good!

 

yeah i reckon 70 models look alot better, but they are gutless :(!

was thinking of buying a rt100 over my rt142 but power is what turned me off :down:

very very nice man! did you restore her?

have you thought of lowing it ? if so what springs are you going with?

 

yeah man, ive looked into getting low king springs for her.

owner before me put monroe gt shocks. so I'm half way there...

yeah man, ive looked into getting low king springs for her.

owner before me put monroe gt shocks. so I'm half way there...

hehe awesome man! thing loves to rev ay?

hehe awesome man! thing loves to rev ay?

 

i got the 2s man. she used to be fun put keeps on leaking coolant.

 

whats your plans for your rona?

Love the Rona's. This one is teasing me on Gumtree... too far away and too many cars already :(

 

http://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/maclean/cars-vans-utes/1979-toyota-corona-wagon-ratrod-vintage-white-walls-old-school/1027627551

i got the 2s man. she used to be fun put keeps on leaking coolant.

 

whats your plans for your rona?

my first rona was a 2sc man! twin carbed that shit! had 300,000 thing still went minttt i paid 350dollers for it, was running 3cylinders change distributor cap and rotor arm and plugs n leads was like a new car !!! lol bought it off a 75yo guy owned it since new!

i got the car to 160ks lmfao pretty good for a 80model carby with 300xxx on clock !! i even doubled up when i sold it! winwin! :P yeah when i bought mine it had a leak man changed water pump and radiator hose never gave me any problems man! 6months of consist abuse #ronaLYF

plans for avante is suspension #1 then blow the 22re and drop a ca18det 250kw project

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Love the Rona's. This one is teasing me on Gumtree... too far away and too many cars already :(

 

http://www.gumtree.c...hool/1027627551

seen that one its been there for awhile its really calling you out dude hahaha

RT80! Looks great :)

 

Heapsa people say its an RT80, but its stamped RT81 on the firewall???

That's strange. Yours has the earlier grille still. I thought the main differences between an RT80 and RT81 were the tail lights, grille (check the difference between yours and mine), and the 80 had drums on front whereas the 81 had disc brake front end.

 

Haven't seen an 81 with the older grille and lights before :) Disc or drum?

actually, the rt80 is the 1970 model and came out with a 1.5 2r and i think they had optional discs, the 1971 rt81 was the same looking as a rt80 but had a 1.6 12r, 1972 was called a rt81 but has a funny grill with heaps of bars going up and down, looks ugly, then i think the 1973 rt81 is what my blue one and marks are, the later rt81s have square dash gauges

12r drum brake front round guages still rt81? front has been upgraded to discs but its definately stamped 81 and it was near on one owner...

yeah thats right, i also have one, my spares car is the same model as yours, and i have 3 rt81s they are how i know all that stuff, only one of them had disc front, it was the lates model same as marks, dunno why they kept calling the rt81s with a different grill and tail lights and dash but they did,i'll take some pics to show yous when I'm home..

also the first rt81 that is the same as rt80 had a weird 4 spd with built in bell housing and the shifter comes out the side on a shaft, not 100% sure but think they are called L43, but the next ones have w40

my first rona was a 2sc man! twin carbed that shit! had 300,000 thing still went minttt i paid 350dollers for it, was running 3cylinders change distributor cap and rotor arm and plugs n leads was like a new car !!! lol bought it off a 75yo guy owned it since new!

i got the car to 160ks lmfao pretty good for a 80model carby with 300xxx on clock !! i even doubled up when i sold it! winwin! :P yeah when i bought mine it had a leak man changed water pump and radiator hose never gave me any problems man! 6months of consist abuse #ronaLYF

plans for avante is suspension #1 then blow the 22re and drop a ca18det 250kw project

 

 

haha, thats sick man!

actually, the rt80 is the 1970 model and came out with a 1.5 2r and i think they had optional discs, the 1971 rt81 was the same looking as a rt80 but had a 1.6 12r, 1972 was called a rt81 but has a funny grill with heaps of bars going up and down, looks ugly, then i think the 1973 rt81 is what my blue one and marks are, the later rt81s have square dash gauges

 

I like the 81 grill more! Haha.

 

Mines an 81, disc brakes, later grille and lights but round gauges. Either way, they're all pretty cute :)