I was thinking about buying one but I know very little about it. Anyone got any opinions and/or general info about it? Also, useful links would be great as well.
I have this idea that it would be really cool to have a small toyota diesel - not that the corona had a diesel, just a tangent.

 

this is the Toyota luxury sedan predating the Cressida.

Very good reliability however due to its age finding parts is going to be a tough one.

Never owned one-always wanted one. Sorry no links-you are getting into antique car territory here-buyer beware...

 

Yea I have seen a few, apparently toyota made a lot of them - they were popular in europe, asia. There is a peruvian corona club - I have a feeling that they are pretty popular as taxis. Since there were so many made I am hoping that replacement part availability is very good, still researching this - I would hate to buy one and have a hard getting parts that's for sure.

 

this is pretty cool

 

pic didn't show up in last reply but I just found several diesel coronas.

 

parts are near impossible to find, so if you buy it, expect to spend a LOT of money shipping parts from Japan, or from sources throughout the country. They are neat little cars, but they are 31+ years old now, and you can't exactly find new parts at the dealer

I say buy it, and treat it as the classic car it is. Those Coronas are pretty neat.

 

I'll keep that in mind - thanks for the tip. the one I saw on craigslist has 72000 miles on it, 2400 miles per year since 1978 which seems pretty low. they are asking 2995 but just not sure how to price them.

 

http://cpwstore.carpartswholesale.co...versal:0)&sv=0

this place seems to have a lot of replacement parts