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Re: Car names & numbers...

Sun, 07 September 2003 23:59

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as there's no continuity with the codes

I'll disagree with that. IMHO Toyota has the most simple and easy to follow chassis designations of any other major manufacturer.

I didn't know much about Celicas, because I don't really like them. But I picked up a lot of it because a friend has an RA23 Celica... and I know that they're very similar to a TA22 but with a smaller engine bay and smaller engine. So there's two I know straight off the bat.

I had an MA71 Supra... "M" means the engine (ie. it has a 7M engine)... the "A" means it is a Supra/Celica, and the "71" tells me that it is a Mk3 Supra, which means that I know the exact shape and approximate years of the car straight away.

Anoither example of how simple it is... the ST141 and RT142 Corona. They are basically the same car, but one came with an "S" engine, and the other came with an "R" engine.

The numbers that people quote are generally the first couple of digits of the chassis number. Spend half an hour at a wreckers one day looking in the engine bay of various cars.

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