Corona

Aug 23, 2005 4 Replies

I have only owned one Toyota. It was a 1973 Corona Wagon. It first belonged to my mother-in-law, then to my future wife. She sold it to a family friend and when I needed a car quick and cheap she sold it to me for what she'd paid for it.



Plugs, new Dist. Cap and a Thermostat later it ran like a sewing machine, albeit with poor winter heating, no AC and a passenger front window that liked to fall out of its tracks. It did that during an impromptu trip to Atlanta during late Fall - with temperatures around 40°, making my wife quite sick (being young back in those days I was nearly impervious to wild temperature swings!)



Later, after buying a nearly new Chevy Corsica (bad, bad car) I kept the Toy around so I could drive it to work (I was far less concerned about kids vandalizing a $300 car than an $8000 one!) but it finally came time to dispense with it. Once again, it was sold for $300, which the Corsica immediately sucked down with a burned out ignition module the warranty people at Chevy refused to pay for.



I wonder if that car is still running somewhere. It had 250K miles on it when we parted company.


And your point is?

Natalie, fwapping NB for another ghost post

| > Plugs, new Dist. Cap and a Thermostat later it ran like a sewing machine, | > albeit with poor winter heating, no AC and a passenger front window that | > liked to fall out of its tracks. It did that during an impromptu trip to | > Atlanta during late Fall - with temperatures around 40°, making my wife | > quite sick (being young back in those days I was nearly impervious to wild | > temperature swings!) | >

| > Later, after buying a nearly new Chevy Corsica (bad, bad car) I kept the | > Toy | > around so I could drive it to work (I was far less concerned about kids | > vandalizing a $300 car than an $8000 one!) but it finally came time to | > dispense with it. Once again, it was sold for $300, which the Corsica | > immediately sucked down with a burned out ignition module the warranty | > people at Chevy refused to pay for. | >

| > I wonder if that car is still running somewhere. It had 250K miles on it | > when we parted company. | >

| >

| And your point is? | | Natalie, fwapping NB for another ghost post | |

Who?

We had a '72 sedan, bench seat and a column shifter. They say it was rare, but almost ALL the '72's I have seen were configured this way. It was the family's first Toyota, my Mom's, and the first car I ever drove. at

120,000 in 1980 they traded it for a Mercury Zephyr (I KNOW, I KNOW, you don't have to tell ME!)

It replaced a '64 Nova with about 300,000 miles on it. The Nova was as strong and solid as ever, they just wanted a newer car and the thing was $2500 brand new.

It's been downhill for me ever since. I was hooked. When it was my time to buy a car (at 17) I looked at a Celica that turned out had a cracked frame (boy, did I want THAT car) but wound up with a '74 Corolla 1200, brand new, $2525. After that I had a Volvo 1800ES, then went back to Toyotas. Had a brief bout with a VW I bought for my 1st wife, brand new 1985 Jetta, and traded it as soon as the warranty was up for a new Corolla. After that we bought a Honda Accord, also an outstanding car, but for me it's Toyotas from now on, unless someone *gives* me an LHS or a Grand Voyager...

*fwappity fwap*

Natalie

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