old_
old_ Reader
1/30/14 8:06 p.m.

http://lincoln.craigslist.org/cto/4312228190.html

nmna

Cool_Hand_Luke
Cool_Hand_Luke New Reader
1/30/14 8:20 p.m.

I love that dash haha

Swank Force One
Swank Force One MegaDork
1/30/14 8:46 p.m.

Holy HELL I want this.

RoughandReady
RoughandReady New Reader
1/30/14 9:12 p.m.

Needs moar 4age.

petegossett
petegossett PowerDork
1/30/14 9:15 p.m.

Wow, that's an epic winter-beater/ZAV.

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic UberDork
1/30/14 9:46 p.m.

Will the trans hold up to a lotus spec 2ZZ?

MrJoshua
MrJoshua PowerDork
1/30/14 9:50 p.m.

Longitudinal 4wd? Does that mean it's a parts bin toyota truck type 4wd? I always assumed a fwd setup with a rear output shaft. Parts bin truck stuff means waaay more options.

oldopelguy
oldopelguy SuperDork
1/30/14 10:56 p.m.

Transmission is specific to that car, and not very robust. My second car was one of those in 1987, and the transmission blew up when one wheel slipped on some ice then caught again on the blacktop. Back then it was $1500 to fix and that was me doing the r&r.

old_
old_ Reader
1/30/14 10:57 p.m.
MrJoshua wrote: Longitudinal 4wd? Does that mean it's a parts bin toyota truck type 4wd? I always assumed a fwd setup with a rear output shaft. Parts bin truck stuff means waaay more options.

That's what I was thinking but it's not. It's FWD based, no external transfer case.

Kenny_McCormic
Kenny_McCormic UltraDork
1/30/14 11:40 p.m.

How much hammering to fit a WRX box, diff, and a supercharged buick v6?

old_
old_ Reader
1/31/14 12:59 p.m.
Kenny_McCormic wrote: How much hammering to fit a WRX box, diff, and a supercharged buick v6?

this guy might know

carbon
carbon HalfDork
2/2/14 9:42 a.m.
Kenny_McCormic wrote: Will the trans hold up to a lotus spec 2ZZ?

a lotus spec 2zz is just a 2zz

sethmeister4
sethmeister4 Dork
2/3/14 10:45 a.m.

This thing is freakin' awesome...my folks bought a FWD one of these new right before I was born in '85. Our family beat the mess out of that thing, and it just kept going. I would SO rock this thing! Somebody here please buy it!

oldeskewltoy
oldeskewltoy Dork
2/3/14 5:38 p.m.

careful... that Tercel transaxle is fragile.... also not easy to fix anymore....

SilverFleet
SilverFleet SuperDork
2/3/14 8:02 p.m.

That thing is rad to the max.

92dxman
92dxman HalfDork
2/4/14 9:45 a.m.

I had one of those in red. It ultimately needed too much work so I traded it to a junkyard for a rear tail light for my 89 Toyota truck at the time.

Swank Force One
Swank Force One MegaDork
2/12/14 11:25 a.m.

Did any of you guys try to get ahold of this guy?

old_
old_ Reader
2/12/14 2:45 p.m.
Swank Force One wrote: Did any of you guys try to get ahold of this guy?

Yeah I emailed him asking if it had any rust. He said it had some surface bubbling in a few spots under the bedliner but no holes or anything major. It took him a couple days to respond to my email. He keeps re listing it every few days on my local Craigslist (Lincoln, NE).

Swank Force One
Swank Force One MegaDork
2/12/14 3:01 p.m.
old_ wrote:
Swank Force One wrote: Did any of you guys try to get ahold of this guy?
Yeah I emailed him asking if it had any rust. He said it had some surface bubbling in a few spots under the bedliner but no holes or anything major. It took him a couple days to respond to my email. He keeps re listing it every few days on my local Craigslist (Lincoln, NE).

Ok cool, i'll get ahold of him.

I'm thinking about picking this up as a new daily in lieu of another SUV, but i'm SLIGHTLY sketched out by the general state of the car. Not that it's awful, but it's clearly not 100% sorted.

On the flip side, it's awesome, and it's relatively low financial risk.

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