Levin - Trueno Questions

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Dan-
Actually, I was looking at the Celica which IIRC had been switching headlight styles the year before, or that year. I had no idea what a Corolla looked like until I went shopping, saw some reviews and then had to play "car, car, whos' got a car?" because they were all on allocation. IF you could find one at a dealer, they'd tell you anything to get you to come in then gee, that wasn't the same car. Or, the one in the showroom looked like hoards of gypsies had been camping in it. One even had a full ashtray.
And everyone wanted a deposit (whcih you'd never get back without a fight) but no one could promise you a particular car, since they got whatever Toyota wanted to ship and there was no real inventory until the ship was two weeks out of port, or something like that.
Eventually I found a dealer in a state where you couldn't give away riceburners. I said "Must have ___ can't have ___ doesn't matter on the rest and the first man to call me with a VIN and that spec list gets a deposit. Hello Fedex, it worked!

What can I tell you, finding an econosport with RWD and LSD wasn't easy in '85, if I could have found a better one with proper headlights--I wouldn't have bought mine. IIRC the competition was the Nissan 200SX? with garish slatted taillights, One Subi, with less reliability and garish upholstery, and the Honda Prelude. Which really impressed me until I saw there wasn't enough trunk to carry lunch in. Or was that FWD?

The 85 Accord was probably 10% more than the Corolla, suffered from the same pop-ups, and didn't have rwd+lsd either. Slim pickings!