Hello - a quick Introduction

[adamd]

Hi everyone,

Just posting this as a quick introduction (and a small question!).

I'm 24, and have been a Toyota nutter for as long as I can remember as I was brought up on them, my family having had them for the past 31 years. I currently drive a GT86 Giallo, #30 of 86, which is my 3rd Toyota but might be a little modern for here. I like them all old and new.

I'm currently looking for something a bit older that I could maybe attend classic shows with and share some of the miles with the GT86 as I do quite a few. I love the 80s and 90s stuff and I have a budget of about £2000, but I'm struggling to find something that takes my fancy. My first choice would have been a Carina II XL Match Play. Seems a little specific but that was the first car I was in and what we had as the family car when I was growing up. I still have the original set of golf clubs that came with ours in the garage...

Went on an 8 hour round trip last week to view a low mileage one, and while it did have full service history from 1991, sadly it seemed to have had some crash damage at the rear that wasn't properly straight and was absolutely filthy inside, which is a shame as I really was quite excited that I'd found one. I also have a liking for E11 Corollas and had one as my first car, was going to view a G6R but unfortunately it sold before I got there.

I'll stop rambling on now, if anyone knows of any 80s or 90s Toyotas (Carina Matchplay would be fantastic) that may be for sale in or around my budget, please let me know! Also I'm attending Simply Japanese at Beaulieu next month in my GT86, will anyone else from here be there? I hope to join as a full member next month too.

Thanks.

[oldredcelicabryan]

I shall be at Beaulieu in my Celica Avon Convertible (with Celica Club). Welcome to TEC

[ae111sr]

Hi Adam, Welcome to TEC. I've owned Corollas for the last 24 years. The first was a Corolla GTI, then an E11 and most recently an E12 Diesel. I still own the E11, which I bought new in 1998 - it's no longer a daily drive as it's been modified a bit (including a supercharged 4A-GZE engine from a Japanese Toyota Levin GTZ) and is now a weekend / summer car which I take to shows. Sadly (for you) it's not for sale. I thought you might like to have a look at my website which shows what I've done with it. www.ae111sr.co.uk
Here's a taster for you

John
Cardiff

[adamd]

Thanks for the welcome guys.

That E11 is an absolute credit to you, so much work has gone into it. It's fantastic.

[oldredcelicabryan]

I also own an E11, but the facelifted version.


With a rather modest 123.6Bhp

[adamd]

Nice SR! What did you do it for that little power bump?

[celicasteve]

Hello Adam and welcome to the TEC. It's always good to hear from a young person who's interested in Toyotas before they were born. I have none of those mentioned on your list, here are my pride and joys.
1985 Celica Supra

1989 Celica

[oldredcelicabryan]

The modest gains are from a SS Cat back Mongoose system and a K+N Panel filter. Decent fuel also helps. 1/4 mile at Santa Pod was 17.6 @73 mph.

[Uncle Bob]

Big welcome to the club .

[HarleyJ]

Hello from UK guys,

I'm Harley, I'm 24 now. my Car is toyota fortuner 2012(before the accident). i feel bad when I was looking to this link auto2000.co.id/cars_list/toyota-all-new-fortuner/ because my car is broke right now. Can you guys give an information about where i can find sellers of used cars toyota fortuner? 

thank you

[adamd]

Thought I'd come back and give this one an update - just had a 300 mile drive to pickup a 1999 Corolla G6 1.3. Got back in the dark so no good pictures yet, I'll get some in the morning as it's currently sat keeping the GT86 company.

[Uncle Bob]

Well done ....look forward to the photo's

[adamd]

Apologies for the naff photo, but here it is sat outside with the GT86.



It's got a couple of little marks but the worst are the faded plastics on the mirrors/bumpers, and the wheels have been DIY rattlecanned silver which looks pretty shocking. Going to get them sorted out ASAP, think I'll give them a go myself.

It's done 94000 miles and has been serviced every year, despite only doing a few thousand miles (3000 ish a year for the past 10 years). Oil is nice and golden and the engine is quiet and smooth. Four good Michelins, massive stack of history, new brakes all round in the last year, I'm quite pleased with it so far.

It's even the same as the one in the brochure...



Oh, and as sad as it is I always wanted one with one of these stickers on.

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[harvey]

Thanks for joining as a fully paid up member of the TEC, hopefully we can meet you one of your cars at an event in next years show season

[adamd]

Seems I may have spoken a little too soon on the Corolla - I've definitely been sold a lemon.

It sprang a massive coolant leak, normally I'd have a crack at it myself but I haven't got a lot of time currently, so I took it to the only small local garage I've had anything to do with. He showed me where K Seal is being pushed out of the head gasket, followed by tons of coolant now it's gone. Previous owner or place I bought it from has obviously stuck it in there to cover the massive leak.

It's behind the Timing Belt cover so I couldn't see it, coolant was clean enough when I bought it and it didn't use any at all until it suddenly dropped the lot, it's coming out so quick it's undriveable.

I hate leaving my cars at garages but it needs to be done this time and I don't know any others in the area, so I hope they'll make a good job of it. I'm a bit gutted.