cold vb kb new corona

[chippydave01]

corona ? Hi guys yep thats right being a holden and chev man all my life i thought corona was a beer south of the border until i remembered they come out in the 60s. I couldnt resist buying a little 1966 rt40j 2g 1500 4speed column shift toyota corona.This drives like a dream. It has 66000 0riginal miles has been garaged all its life by an elderly lady who bought it from a car yard in sydney when it was 12 months old.This model was made in japan and exported and raced worldwide.The blinkers are on the steering wheel and it came with logbooks ,original tool kit and still has original crossply for a spare.With the cost of petrol and the cheap price i got it for it will pay for itself in under a year.It is rated at 74bhp and i am considering it as a propert tow car (4SPEED FULL SYNCHRO)..If vw's at 36hp are meant to a tow propert i think this can.I will just have to get used to a slow trip and no radio.If any body knows of one sitting anywhere for spares let me know .Also i need a tow bar and would been keen on any info on it and would also like to know the best fuel and additive to run in it.cheers chippy dave

[Scootman]

Good Job on the Corona chippydave, They were one of toyotas best sellers when they first came out. From memory it has a 12oo motor. My neighbour had one when I was a kid and towed one very large boat everywhere with it. Never had any problems. His only complaint was that there seemed to be excess body roll in the car when it cornered.
Scoot
(sitting in front of the poota instead of in the van )

[chippydave01]

the motor is a toyota 2R 1490 cc 74hp and car weighs 920kg or 2025lb cheers dave

[groovy]

Scootman
The one your thinking of was called the Tiara and was the forerunner to the Corona. The 66 model was the 2nd model Corona (first update) with the square body, it had a fine bar horizontal grille that sloped back at the top, while the earlier one had an eggcrate grill if my memory is working. the jury is still out on that one.

Chippydave
I am suprised it doesn't have a radio as my girlfriend in 1966 bought one of them new and it came with an am pushbutton radio as standard, also carpet and twin windscreen washers, she thought it wonderful to get all those "luxuries" as standard. ;D
As to what fuel, I have no experience with the fuel catylists, so I will take Kaybee's word they work, as gospel, unless someone here knows otherwise.
If you don't want to outlay the money for a catylist system, I would try unleaded first then work up through 95 octane to super until you find one that gives the best results. If you use straight unleaded, you may need to fit some type of top end lube system to the fuel lines as Japan did not go unleaded until 1972 or 73.
Greg

[Jim]

The best fuel to run it on is LPG.
I converted one of them to straight gas for a friend a while back.

It was a family heirloom type car, grandpa had bought it new and it had done some ridiculously low kilometers (it was miles as I remember).

On gas it ran like a dream, it had more get up and go and was more economical, as well as using a cheaper fuel.

[hwyman]

Hey chippydave look what I found in the shed printed december 1964 by toyota motor sales co.,Ltd. export -tecnical divison Haruhi plant
Haruhi-mura, nishikasugai-gun Aichi pref., japan. no. 96213. Your welcome to it send me a postal address to [e-mail] and its on its way .

[hwyman]

I forgot to mention they were commonly known as a shovel nose corona.

[Deleted]

Hi All

Funny the subject of fuel additives has sprung up.

I have just got home from a mates place on my old 1939 BSA M21 sidevalve.(600cc) The old girl gets a snort of "flashlube" to keep the lead around the valve stems and a drink of standard Cats pee unleaded most of the time.
On birthdays and anniversaries i might shout it a schooner of Optimax and in return it does 45mph instead of 40 .

On the way out today the old girl felt a bit listless and sluggish ( standard performance for a war model BSA. The mate has an engineering shop and is a brillant machinist as well as hav9ing years of experience ringing every last ounce of HP out of tiddlers like BSA Bantam 125cc two strokes. His 1952 race bike boasts a yamaha crank and a 6 speed g/box replaces the old 3 speed bsa item. Top speed in excess of 100MPH ( with tobacco tins for brakes) . revs to over 10,000rpm as opposed to the standard Birmingham Small Arms (BSA)
product disintergrating at anything over 2000rpm

We where discussing secret reciepes for fuel additives and he walked into the shed then returned with a black drum marked "Inflammable liquids 3"as well as producing a syringe.
It was about now i started thinking of taking the old darling outta his yard before it was introduced to drugs. Anyway ... like all good drug dealers he asured me that old BSA would enjoy the "Trip".

He then asked how much fuel was in the tank and i replied about 1 gallon . "When ya ride old bikes ya gotta talk in the old money folks".
He sucked up around 3 or 4cc of this strange clear liquid and found a vien in the M21.
Closed the lid on the tank and said go for a run. I pulled on the helmet adjusted the goggles and headed out of the yard not knowing what to expect. Well....... I almost got the front wheel off the ground.... anyone that has ridden one of these old clunkers will tell ya that is an impossibility.

I wrestled with the beast and its new found steroid performsnce all the way home. almost overtook a police car!!! Smoke and flame from the exhaust heralded my arrival back in the neighbourhood. It took 2 minutes after i tried to stall the motor for silence to fall upon the Reddo shed of invention.
Never... I repeat ... never... have i found perfomance in a bottle like the stuff the mate needled old betsy BSA with.

I rang him to enquire what was in the magic potion.....
Answer: Acetone. ;D
Hmmmm... i am sure all you fibreglassers are familiar with this stuff.
I called back around and he gave me a table of mixture/ratios. i am gunna by a 44 gallon drum of the stuff and head for the nostalgia drags....
So ther ya have it... now i have a drug dependant BSA as well as an alcoholic cat and dog .

So there ya have it Chippy Dave
500 HP 1200cc Coronas ....... definitely achievable.
Redd-Oh what a feeling... Tooooooyyyoootttaa

[humpty2]

Aint that what they use as nail polish remover......works for me

[chippydave01]

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[chippydave01]

yeah i know good photos stay tuned

[chippy]

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cheers chippy dave

[chippydave01]

Hi everyone, i would just like to thank hwyman for sending me a toyota 2r engine manual. It was one of them suprises in the letterbox when you think ,whats this ,who sent this.Thanks again hwyman, cheers dave