Im New!! My KE70!!

[uncle silvia]

Hi all


I'm Scott and live in the UK.
My other car is a full drift spec Nissan Silvia (see pics!), but its a bit harsh on fuel to use every day for work, so I went looking for something cheaper to run, interesting and must be jap to use as a daily driver!!

I never expected this ............




Here is my 1981 Toyota Corolla KE70 1300 that I picked up a few weeks ago!!

This car is so clean and origional, I couldnt believe it when my friend brought it around!

It was owned by an old gentleman that passed away and his family just took his car to the local scrap yard! The guys at the scrapyard thought it was too good to scrap so sold it as a whole! A friend of mine knew i was after something "old skool jap" and when he saw it in the yard he told me about it! To cut a long story short............ Its now mine .

This car has all the O/E parts and lots of bits like Toyota floor mats, tool kit, Books etc and even has some maps from 1981 !!

Its in really good condition to and only has some rust on the bottom of the drivers door!! The car looks like nothing has ever been inside it and nothing is used, broken or worn!!

I am going to do some mods but mainly in the looks department (see bottom pic),as i want to keep the running costs down for cheap motoring LOL! Probably an exhaust and filter though!!



Anyway, heres some pics
































My Future plans.......... :




Oh and Ive modded it a bit already LOL!!

When I bought my Silvia it had a white and chrome NARDI TORINO steering wheel in it which quite frankly looked awful in that car!

I was going to sell it but didnt get round to it!

The standard Corolla steering wheel was really thin and was horrid to drive with! Then i remembered the white steering wheel I had and wondered what It would look like!

It turned out that it really suited the age of the car and kept with the Retro Jap theme!!

With a stroke of luck we actually had the correct steering wheel boss kit on the shelf at Halfords (where i work = Discount LOL) for my car and it went on a treat!!!!!!!

What do you think????..............

[jamiemirror]

OMG ! @scrapyard :-)
The car is too clear, why don't keep it original 100% ?

[dollykean]

Hi Welcome here!!!

[Lipinhu]

welcome!

[banpei]

Clean!
IMO the steeringwheel is a bit too white. But nevertheless very nice.

[Dorito86]

jamiemirror Wrote:why don't keep it original 100% ?

Great condition!

+1 Please use rusty example for drift car. Keep that one for historic car!

[uncle silvia]

Thanks for the warm welcome!!

Dont worry, this car is not going to be wrecked on the track!
Its going to be used as my daily driver but will also be kept in top condition!

It is going to be modified but only with period parts, (wheels etc), and will really look the part when its done!!

Another few...........

[oldskull]

Welcome mate
Nice car, I have seen the photos on driftworks forum. Lovely car!

[john84ie]

welcome dude!minty corolla,dont think white is a good colour for you though...so you should sell it to me!!!