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   clare@snyder.on.ca to Scott Dorsey   
   Re: Throttle Mechanism Sticking -- Toyot   
   28 Jan 10 13:56:07   
   
   XPost: alt.autos.toyota.camry, alt.autos.toyota, alt.autos.lexus   
   XPost: rec.autos.tech   
      
   On 28 Jan 2010 08:56:32 -0500, kludge@panix.com (Scott Dorsey) wrote:   
      
   >  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   
   The Geherty Dyno Tune kit turned that 2TC into a VERY capable engine -   
   and in a '37 it made a VERY nice package.   
      
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