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   From: kludge@panix.com   
      
     wrote:   
   >On 27 Jan 2010 20:11:54 -0500, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:   
   >   
   >>Mike Hunter  wrote:   
   >>>Saw a 63 Corvair sold for $35,000 at Barrette Jackson.   I never say an old   
   >>>Toyota sold there, however    ;)   
   >>   
   >>You will.  Toyota has made a few classics, even the Toyopet and the original   
   >>Corona.   
   >>   
   >>And I for one would _love_ to have my old Corolla SR5 back, although without   
   >>so much body rust or the cracked transmission case....  that was a really   
   >>nifty design and it's a shame Toyota dumped it.   
   >   
   > The TE50 series or the TE37, or the AE8 series??   
   >ALL were great cars (The 50 was a hatch, the 37 was a coupe, and the   
   >80 series was the last RWD with the twin-cam 1600 engine   
      
   I had a TE37 with the 2T-C engine.  Surprisingly good handling, and a   
   really nice low seating configuration.  Pretty underpowered, but not   
   horribly so.  It was a wannabee-sports-car but as such things go it was   
   kind of a fun one.   
   --scott   
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