have no pics yet but will get them tomorrow. I bought my '79 for $30!!! A great buy if you ask me. It's the sr5 sports coupe, and even better is after I ran some gas through the lines and carb it ran great! Although it's alittle beatup itts a great project car! I used to drive it all the time but sadly it's been siting in the back yard, soon enough though I'll drive it again!

 

or for teasing us.

 

I hate you Rolladude!

 

Crap I knew I forgot something today! Lol I'm gonna have to get those tomorrow for you. What's there to hate superhater?

 

First gen liftbacks > all celicas

 

actually it's not a liftback it's a coupe, but those are cool as well!

 

So I was finally able to get some pics for ya! I took some a few days ago, but I hadn't been able to upload them. Today I even took more for you guys! There's a lot so I'll upload the best of them.





Where it used to say "Sports Coupe"





Told you it was an SR5!

 

Nice. Well not really, but... ... on second thought yeah very nice.

Would everybody hate me, if I told them my first car was a pale yellow 77 celica GT liftback with a 20r?. Bought it for $250. It had a bad fuel pump (in tank I think) and some bad electrical gremlins, we trashed the car and then junked it. Freakin kids I swear. If I knew what I know about cars and such then as I do now, that car would be worth a small fortune.

 

Well don't worry,that car has been beat up as well. That is actually my first car! And I don't blame you, you were young. I almost did the same thig with my corolla.

 

This one is almost identical to the one I had. Even the interior was somewhat decent in it. Also an automatic. One of these days I will own one again. And for a PA car, it didn't have much rust on it at all. I think I still have the CELICA badge from it as well.

http://www.toyotageek.com/toyota_tal...llow_rose.html

 

Dang that looks awesome! Yours was a GT as well? Now I'm mad at you! Lol

 

Yup GT too. Only difference between that article I can see is I don't remember mine having the "GT" pinstripes on the rocker panels. It also had the tan/brown interior I think.

 

After rereading your post I saw that as well. Lol That's pretty awesome, it's a shame you got rid of it. I plan on keeping mine for a whike, or at least until I need the money.

 

I am curious if you still have that SR5 and I wont be able to trade you a MR but I would like to buy it off of you if you wouldnt mind. It was my wifes first car and I would like to get one for her. And if anyone else reads this post I would love a 75-79 Corolla from that time. Sr5 or not.

 

I don't have any good pics of mine, but this is the spitting image of the one I drove for several years in college:



Damn that car took a beating and just kept on going. Only major problems I had was a busted front U-joint and a plugged up radiator that caused it to overheat and popped the headgasket. Mine had the 1.2 engine and a 4-speed so 80 mph down a mountain pass with a tail wind was top speed. OTOH, we used to rally it on old logging roads and get air off the drainage berms.

Sold it to some 6'-6" 300 lb dude who was jumping bail. Said he was going to Alaska but I got a letter from the City of New Orleans a couple months later saying it had been impounded and if I wanted it back I'd have to come claim it. Seeing that dude cram himself into that car cracks me up to this day, especially thinking of him driving all the way to LA in it.

 

WOW - just happened on this old thread while looking at the "new posts" section!

This is NOT a photo of mine:


But I had a 79 coupe, just like this one - but it was crap brown from the factory...nothing a saturday and Krylone couldn't fix...turned it Blue with white racing stripes down the middle....sigh.

Got it from my Grandpa, original owner, in high school (he couldn't drive anymore) -it had 42,000 miles on it in 1995 when I got it. I drove the ˟˟˟˟ out of it (didn't know a thing about cars and frankly I'm shocked it survived all the crap I put it through:
- NO Regular maintenence
- Burnouts (got pulled over for reckless driving while making a right turn burnout in a residential area)
- power slides (or just attempts) in large open park n ride lots (for a High School Marketing video where we were supposed to show the proper sales techniques by pointing out the features of the car...like great handling)
- Running it into a snow pile in a parking lot - just to see what would happen
- T boned an F150 (his fault-didn't clear intersection)
- Drove it through a deep puddle at 40 MPH - came to a standstill immediately and engine shut down - but started right up again)
- I'm sure there's more than I can remember...

Finally we parted ways when I was driving it from Seattle to California on a Sunday (had been visiting my frail Grandfather after college graduation). The clutch was slipping - I knew it needed to be fixed, but for some reason I thought that the clutch does more more in lower gears (because you're always shifting of course!) than in higher gears, so I thought 850 miles on the I-5 in 4th and 5th gear would be no problem....I got as far as the Washington/Oregon Border when the Clutch died. I had a job interview the next day in the Bay Area and had to get down there, so I scrapped it at a local gas station (no one's shop was open on Sunday) and caught a flight home. My grandpa died the next day. To this day, I feel those 2 events are connected.

I really wish I'd had that car now, when I knew more about it and could take care of it - it was like the faithful dog who kept coming back for more abuse to an unappreciative child (but that's another story....).