'70s Toyota overload!

carchaeologist

There was a run on today up from Kanturk, i wasnt on it, but i gatecrashed the stopover after a tip off from a fellow jap enthusiast. Well worth the trip. Apologies for the over exposed photos, they were taken on the phone.

You wait 15 years to see a MK1 Cressida and two come along at once...








You never see these TA40 Carinas anymore either, and they used to be everywhere.




Or the TA60s....




A lovely flat front original KP60






This earlier car was a minter also




And a tasty Celica.

Anan1

I learnt to drive in a silver TA40 Carina, still remember doing a full 360' on the Stillorgan dual carriageway after hitting what must have been a black sack full of banana skins.

carchaeologist

While on the subject, heres a few more i came across going through my pics, most are reposts from the past, some were lifted from other forums.















Anyone have any more?

junkyarddog

Me sitting on my '78 KE35 coupe,taken in Salthill co Galway about '94,
going home to co, limerick,returning from a weekend in letterkenny.
Little Corolla didn't miss a beat:D
Still have it,slowly being restored may or may not be done this year,
Time will tell.

I can remember that gold TI registered Carina for sale,
Leanords Garage on Mulgrave street IIRC,
glad to see it survived:)

Hermy

One I spotted a while back...

Hermy wrote: »

And a spotless Celica up North yesterday...

Arthur Daley

Lovely shots. That 2nd generation Carina was quite short lived around 83/84 if I recall. Until the Carina II came along circa 1985, and they along with those starlets were just everywhere in Ireland. The era when Toyota really took off here.

Their model development cycles were very short in many cases, certainly compared to the European manufacturers. It was the same with Datsun/nissan who were very prolific in developing new models, and filling niches in the market. E.g. the Stanza, or the Prairie

Hunter21

Im from around the Kanturk area, was there a meet on? If so it was kept very quiet.. Loads of Toyotas in storage in these parts

sid131

stapes

nice photos well done guys them old ke35 coupes are absolutely mint didnt know they wer sold in ireland new or that cressida on irish reg nice to see some more beautiful toyotas saved from the rust and scrappage bug ha ha

Blue850

Link here to all my Jap car photos, fair few duplicates but about 150 different ones

Japanese cars

2.8trooper

Anan1 wrote: »

I learnt to drive in a silver TA40 Carina, still remember doing a full 360' on the Stillorgan dual carriageway after hitting what must have been a black sack full of banana skins.

made me laugh heartiley many thanks:)

carchaeologist

Heres a few more pics for ye Toyota fans.

This Starlet seemed to have twin cam running gear.


Nice beefy SR Corolla Coupe.


And this '85 Carina was a JDM seemingly, running twincam stuff aswell.

stapes

what the **** a 1985 carina ta60????????????????? taught they finished up in 1983?

carchaeologist

stapes wrote: »

what the **** a 1985 carina ta60????????????????? taught they finished up in 1983?

That one was a JDM car. Might have been different there?

irish rwd

the blue kp in the last set of pics has a 16v 4age and the rest is ford set-up, the white carina is a jap import with 4age as standard. identical one for sale in louth atm on another forum

zilog_jones

stapes wrote: »

what the **** a 1985 carina ta60????????????????? taught they finished up in 1983?

This is where things get complicated:

The Corona T150 - which is what we got as the first "Carina II" - was launched in 1983 in Japan and 1984 in Europe.

The Carina T150 was launched in May 1984 in Japan - it started sharing the same FWD platform as the Corona, but with a sportier, more angular body like this:


However, the sports models - the 1600GT, 1600GT-R, 1800GT-T and 1800GT-TR were continued on the A60 platform (RWD) until August 1985 when the FWD T160 Carinas replaced them - I'm not sure why exaclty these sports models got a different chassis number than the T150s, they look the same but there must be something significantly different about them (suspension or something?).

The A60 non-sports saloons, estate and van were actually in production until 1988, despite the T150/T160 replacements - I guess either Toyota or the customers were reluctant to let go of their last compact RWD car platform.

Also, regarding the chassis numbers:
The first letter designates the engine model, so in the case of that Carina, it's an AA63, not a TA60. The numbers change a bit between engines too, it's not always easy to find out but the ones ending in 0 are usually the base models - e.g. with P60 Starlets (I think):
KP60 - 1.0 2K engine
KP61 - 1.2 3K engine
KP62 - 1.3 4K engine

Or E90 Corollas ('87-'92, not doing the Jap ones):
EE90 - 1.3 2E carb
AE92 - 1.6 4A-F/4A-FE/4A-GE
CE90 - 1.8 1C-III diesel

Since that Starlet now has an 4AGE maybe it should be like an AP63

2qk4u

Lovely cars, ive owned most of those over the years except the Celica. Id love to own any of them again..