American automotive customers have been capable of purchase new Toyota Corolla station wagons from the 1968 via 1996 mannequin years (with a break from 1984 via 1987), after which the Corolla-related RAV4 took over. Some of the fashionable of the longroof Corollas offered right here was the fourth-generation TE71/TE72 model, accessible in the US for the 1980-1983 mannequin years. Here is a first-year instance of that wagon, present in a Denver-area automotive graveyard a few months again.
In 1980, the U.S.-market Corolla was accessible as a two- or four-door sedan, coupe, two-door liftback or station wagon (generally known as the Corolla Van in Japan). There was the Corolla Tercel as nicely, however that was an unrelated automotive simply cashing in on the Corolla’s identify recognition (simply because the Toyota Aqua turned the Prius C in the US, in a while).
The primary front-wheel-drive Corollas to reach right here have been the E80 sequence automobiles that arrived as 1984 fashions, and even a few of these have been rear-wheel-drive AE86s (simply to confuse everybody, the E80 platform supported each front- and rear-wheel-drive layouts).
That is an old-school rear-wheel-drive Corolla, full with 3T-C pushrod engine. Horsepower was 73, however the curb weight simply barely received over the ton mark.
The 3T-C did not make a lot energy and it would not spin nicely, but it surely was tougher to kill than post-nuclear-war mutant cockroaches. Somebody had already purchased the cylinder head by the point I received right here.
This automotive does not look like a top-trim-level SR5, but it surely’s loaded with extra-cost choices anyway. Look, air-con!
There’s additionally a manufacturing unit Fujitsu TEN AM/FM radio, which was critical audio {hardware} for an inexpensive automotive in 1980. Thieves truly stole these radios throughout the Nineteen Eighties, which appears laborious to consider right now.
It seems that this automotive started its profession in Washington D.C.
What number of miles? We will not say, as a result of Toyota did not go to six-digit odometers in U.S.-market Corollas till 1982. The best odometer studying I’ve present in a junkyard Corolla was 315,406, in a 1991 wagon. I believe this automotive in all probability has higher than 300,000 miles as nicely, however we’ll by no means know for positive.
This automotive seems to have been bought new at a Virginia dealership within the D.C. suburbs, which inserts with the Dulles Airport parking sticker. You by no means know, possibly the Unhealthy Brains hauled their devices on this automotive.
The sportier liftback and coupe received many of the promoting right here.
