Thread: whats your opinion on the old toyotas

they rust real good.

and for some reason they have about 6 inches of chassis protruding past the front to spoil your approach angle.

As Dave said, rust I saw a mid 70s shovel-nose Corona at Yamanto today, very tidy unrestored condition, still with original rego plates.

Quite like the old 45 series myself. Rust is the big killer, although you can get complete fibreglass cab replacements now.

My experience with them dates to the mid sixties. Plenty of power, only three gears, bodywork tends to fall to bits, seat frames break under the weight of typical Australians, steering is very badly designed and downright dangerous. Fuel tank inside the body is a fire hazard. Electrics only slightly better than Lucas. Blinkers and even headlights very vulnerable to overhanging branches. Carburetter is very poor, resulting commonly in very heavy fuel consumption.

And as Dave says - they rust well, so very few around from this period.

A lot of the major problems were fixed by the seventies (one of the reasons they displaced Landrovers - they fixed problems!) but not the rust problem.

John

a guy just bought a 79 45series ute and it had no rust anywhere and all trim was in good nick rego till next feb for $2500 awesome buy only downside was it had a petrol motor that had a miss

I tend to think that they are not a lot different to the series landys and a lot of parts are designed very very similarly.

Me, I don't think a lot about them, but I do like them.

The trick to getting them with little rust is probably the same as trying to get a series landy with little rust... buy one from inland and make the journey. I've just bought not long ago a late IIa and from between Scone and Tamworth and the thing has pretty much no rust.

The old 45 series are not too bad, I would have bought one if I didn't get a landy. As everyone has said, they rust to buggery and they weigh heaps too. The ride on the short wheel base one is truly shocking. Parts are no problem to get if you break them. If you got a good deal on one in good nick it would be worth getting.

Paul

Originally Posted by Numpty's Missus

They make really really good sardine cans

As opposed to being made out of SPAM cans?