Thursday, May 29, 2014

Junkyard Find: 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback

11 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinIt has become a Corolla Junkyard Find week, with this '78 Corolla wagon on Monday and this skateboarder-enhanced '98 Corolla LE sedan yesterday, so I'm going to keep the streak going with today's find: a Late Malaise Era (yes, I invented the term) E-72 Corolla liftback, which I found late last year in Northern California.
12 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinYou can tell when a junkyard car wasn't towed away for unpaid tickets, because it will still have the keys. This was probably a trade-in at a sketchy used-car lot.
08 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinMost cars don't rust in California, but Malaise Era Toyotas find a way. This car might have lived by the beach in San Francisco for a while, though not long enough to look like this terrifyingly salty '84 Space Van.
01 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinThe interior doesn't look too bad here.
02 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinJust 69,000 miles? That suggests a blown head gasket followed by 20 years of storage in a driveway.
03 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee MartinThe 3T-C engine made just 70 horses, but they were reliable horses.


Come on!

The early 1980s were the pinnacle of the "Oh, what a feeling!" era for Toyota ads.

01 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 02 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 03 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 04 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 05 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 06 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 07 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 08 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 09 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 10 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 11 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 12 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 13 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 14 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin 15 - 1982 Toyota Corolla Liftback Down on the Junkyard - Picture Courtesy of Murilee Martin

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