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   From: Mikehunt2@lycos,com   
      
   Then you never took it out in bad weather.   Every Toyota I saw in the rust   
   belt in the US...........rusted away.   
      
      
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   news:o966m59uvuol1anlarhb9hgk9sg6bli16e@4ax.com...   
   > On Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:10:36 -0500, "Mike Hunter"   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>You obviously kept it in a garage in Arizona.   
   >>   
   >   
   > My wife's cousin bouth an AE86 from the dealership where I worked in   
   > 1984? Mabee it was '85. She lived in London Ontario - middle of the   
   > "snow belt" until her death in1996? when the car was sold to a friend   
   > of mine here in Waterloo. When it was rearended and totalled in late   
   > 2005 it was still in GREAT condition, both body-wize and mechanically   
   > . Never garaged a day in it's life, and  driven in the salt every year   
   > for at least 20 years.   
   >>   
   >>"Hachiroku ????"  wrote in message   
   >>news:pan.2010.01.29.13.53.51.770303@e86.GTS...   
   >>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 15:44:54 -0500, Mike Hunter wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> You mean before it rusted away?   
   >>>   
   >>> No, the Mustang was pretty rusty.   
   >>>   
   >>> My 1985 GTS went 17 years before it even started rusting.   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>>   
   >>>> "Hachiroku ????"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:pan.2010.01.28.17.21.57.846066@e86.GTS...   
   >>>>> On Thu, 28 Jan 2010 08:56:32 -0500, Scott Dorsey wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>>>>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.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> I always wanted one of those, but they were $600 more than a Corolla   
   >>>>> 1200,   
   >>>>> so a college kid with a new car, the 1200 was OK.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> When the 1200 got nailed by a Rustang, I stepped up to a 1980 SR5   
   >>>>> Coupe,   
   >>>>> and then the the AE86 GTS. My girlfriend's fater had a TE37, so I did   
   >>>>> get   
   >>>>> to drive it a couple times.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>>   
   >>>   
   >>   
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