I lived in Seattle. I was visiting family in Aurora for Christmas. Stopped in L.A. to say hi to friends on the way out, which is how I ended up coming in to Colorado from the south.
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Thank you for the comment. Honestly, when I was writing this, I had to question myself several times on whether this was interesting, or if I was just having a James May moment and mistaking arcane trivia for interesting history. I’m glad it turns out that it is actually interesting.
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Wow dumb typo, a two door car with a back seat would be marketed as a sedan...
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Probably more your dealer, rather than Toyota. Around 2003-4 I took the 1982 Tercel to a dealer, and they had a recall on it. They performed $1200 worth of work/parts on a $600 car.
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It had been that the term “coupe” only applied to cars with no back seats (so two seaters, or three seaters with a single bench seat...) a two door car with a back seat would be marketed as a coupe, even into the 1980s.
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Those mirrors were for the Japanese Domestic Market, and all Japanese cars had them at the time. Cars headed for the U.S. had conventional door mounted mirrors. Or one mirror. My car had a driver’s side mirror only. Passenger side was an option the P.O. didn’t bother with.
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Well, that’s shitty.
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I had to replace the valve cover gasket on mine when I got it, as it was leaking oil right onto the exhaust manifold. I recall the inside hood had a diagram of all the tubing printed on it.
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Sad to hear. Mine finally left my hands in 2009, after the first gear went out, followed by the clutch. It was purchased by a mechanic who showed up in a huge 1970's Lincoln and told me he was looking for something economical. He emailed me about a month later saying he put a new clutch in and was enjoying the car. By… Read more