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07/25/09
However, the only way I'd own one would be after winning MegaMillions, and having a large garage, with both a lift and a pit, and a section of acreage with parts cars on it...for this, and others.
While the recessed tail light housings were neat, I liked, don't know why, the larger, flush-mounted, style.
07/25/09
Makes me sad to see a 928 in that condition - of course, I just see a ton of parts that could be reconditioned and re-used. I might be a bit biased though:
07/25/09
In fact, that could be a poster child for Down in the Junkyard...
Down in the Junkyard
Where they all go to die
There's a nine-twenty-eight
With just one eye.
07/25/09
I'm sure i could get that engine into a Miata...
07/25/09
Complete with solid rear axle, locking centre diff, and 80s Toyota UnKilliablity inherited from Land Cruisers.
I'd consider it more of a shame than the 928.
07/25/09
You need to get a life. WTF is a Corolla 4wd Wagon?
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07/25/09
@Impalamino mkIV: Amen to that.
Dear 'yawen':
The Corolla 4wd wagon was the successor to the early 80s Tercel 4wd wagon (which has been profiled on Jalopnik a few times).
During the early 80s to early 90s (give or take) Toyota labeled all their four wheel drive vehicles as "4wd" (trucks, Tercel/Corolla wagons, Camry sedans, Previa's, Toyota Vans, and Celica's). Around 1992 they switched over to the name 'All-Trac' then in the mid to late 90s dropped the name (and the fun) from their product line.
This specific generation of Corolla 4wd wagon was sold from 1988-1994 as both '4wd' and later 'All-Trac'. It featured a 16v 4 (wiki tells me a 4AFE or GE). They were indestructible save for rust. Growing up in north/rural bits of Ontario my parents had one for almost a decade and it would plow through any and all snow with aplomb, take cottage roads, and haul about 2.5x what today's Matrix could. They also featured unique front/rear body work that was a tad 'space' age, especially the tail lights.
They were a great auto, a bit of a weird model with low production figures, and many of the Jalop regulars are aware of them and of their sheer awesomeness.
In closing I hope the Jalop commentariat have been able to educate you some and please, feel free to hop in your slushbox equipped Cobalt with the 'Pep Boys' appearance package and head on down to that junkyard for a closer look!
I will refer you to wiki for more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-Trac
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_Corolla_(E90)
07/25/09
I have a soft spot for these, since I used to have a regular customer at the service station that drove an '85 Tercel 4wd (AllTrac?). She was a crazy old cat lady/hippie with no money, and that beast of a car would not die. The first few times I changed the oil, I priced out a few recommendations to keep it on the road...which were promptly ignored. And yet it came back. And came back. And came back. I suspect it is still coming back, although I have not worked there for three years. Frighteningly reliable and rugged!
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07/26/09
They were 4wd - AllTrac was a late post 89 thing. I think MM has a post about the Tercel Wagon being a hippie mobile (Junkyard Find Post).
@Murilee
It may have been the 928 awesomeness cloud or the Celica front end in the back seat confusing people.
I'd commend you for returning to shoot it!
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It'd be nearly as much hell going that route (what do we think, Jalops, desmogged 500 from an early-Malaise Eldo?)
EDIT: And one like this obtained for a few hundred bucks at the junkyard auction would be an IoE contender... you could sell off enough 928-exclusive pricey-bits to fund the junkyard engine/tranny pull, and wire is cheap and generally reusable!
07/25/09