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RT72 Corona
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Sat, 29 January 2005 02:43
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I have a RT72 corona painted in 2pac midnight black. Mint shell, backed to metal respray. New lenses, rubbers, suspension, nolethene bushes.
Would suit someone who is keen on restoring.
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Toymods Vice President
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Sydney
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Sat, 29 January 2005 07:18
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What money are you after for it?
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Melbourne, Victoria, Aust...
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September 2004
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Mon, 31 January 2005 01:50
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Can you PM me some pics and a price?
Any driveline included?
Thanks.
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June 2003
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Tue, 01 February 2005 11:10
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Is it a SL or an auto?
Pity it's black 
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Melbourne, Victoria, Aust...
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September 2004
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Wed, 02 February 2005 01:23
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My second-favourite shape Toyota.
Black's not my favourite colour either. But I'd live with it for the right price.
When are we going to see some pics and a price?
I'm a serious potential buyer with a mate in the ACT who could check the car out for me.
Cheers.
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June 2003
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Wed, 02 February 2005 03:12
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Free Bump 
I used to see a few RT72's around, but they are very rare now. They must have gone to Shovelnose Heaven
I think Toy OZ imported about 900 of them. I came across a couple of nice SL's (I'd never buy the auto with the strip speedo)in the past for sale but I wasn't in the position to buy, or they were already sold.
I have even see an private import sedan a few times and the wagon, only once.
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Melbourne, Victoria, Aust...
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September 2004
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Wed, 02 February 2005 07:40
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I've seen a few SL over the years. But never an Auto one with a strip speedo.
There was an SL for sale on eBay in Sydney 12 months ago. It had a few dings and minor rust. Sold for $600!! I kicked myself I didn't bid. 
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Canberra
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January 2004
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Wed, 02 February 2005 23:27
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the car is a manual. I must state the fact that this car is only really suitable for someone who already has one of these babies and is looking for another shell.
It's missing a fair bit of the interior and 1 or 2 external pieces.
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Melbourne, Victoria, Aust...
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September 2004
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Thu, 03 February 2005 00:35
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What happened to the missing bits?
Stolen and recovered?
Why are you selling it?
Still interested in price and pics. I may have a source for the missing parts.
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June 2003
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Thu, 03 February 2005 16:13
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I've seen a few SL over the years. But never an Auto one with a strip speedo.
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yeah bnicho the autos has the same sort of dash architecture but with a strip speedo and of course no tacho. Unlike some cars of the time that had a column shift auto, it was a t-bar. The auto also had a single carby 8R motor instear of the SL's 8R-B with twin SU type Hitachis(?).
Have you already got one as a "source" of parts?
I was trying to find a pic on the net to show you in the interest of science but no such luck! Just think of the basic non 1600S RT40 series Coronas and you will get the general idea-yuck.
When I first noticed these cars, initially I always saw the auto versions until I saw the SL version with the sports dash later found about about its' uprated engine etc.
Here is a link to a nice US spec SR-love the Minilights. http://toyotaclub.org/images/noshero/01082003019.j pg I don't know how different the SR was in detail to a SL. I would have known if I had sucessfully bidded on eBay for a bundle of US spec brochures which included Mk2 hardtops and wagons etc but I missed out due to a work pc/network being a bit laggy.  I also missed out on another item as I got stuck in in a work meeting-don't you hate that? At least I have sucessfully bidded on a few other items of memoribilia relating to JDM and assorted Euro stuff.  However a trader in Japan informed me that 1600GT and GSS brochures are both extremely rare and extremely expensive.....
Yes another other US SR here:
http://toyotaclub.org/news71corona.html
Dirty_Sanchez, free bump and good luck with the sale of the black beast. 
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Toymods Vice President
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Thu, 03 February 2005 23:45
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Yeah, I'm familar with this model. There was a couple around "the Shire" in the early 90's. I am yet to see one in Victoria.
I have a source of parts in that a mate stripped and scrapped a very rusty RT72 in the mid 90's. He's one of those guys who saves every nut, bolt, trim clip etc, so he will probably still have all the missing bits (if he can find 'em!). If the car checks out, I'll talk to him about the missing bits.
That pic is a GSS from this site:
http://www.monkys.jp/e/ucar/1971RT72mark2.htm#
But it would look basically the same.
One US spec SR I saw on the web has the strip speedo and was Auto. That page is down, so I can post the link now.
Joshstix, can you elaborate on what work is needed, and what is missing? What is the paint like? (Black painted chrome trim does not sound promising!)
Dirty_Sanchez - ANY PICS OF THIS CAR YET? A PRICE?
Cheers.
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Toymods Vice President
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Fri, 04 February 2005 01:26
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It's a rolling shell with the hanging panels hung. I have no idea of what is missing though because I saw the shell and the rest of the parts are in a different location.
The car is an SL1900 it has the same bonnet, grille and tail light design as the one I posted in the pic above. The paint is a professional job, I didn't get too in detail looking at the paint as I was more interested in the completeness first.
It would be a really nice car when complete and the guys were awesome to take me out to have a look at it, just doesn't really suit me at the moment. I haven't really been looking for this model car and the amount of work needed to get this one up to the state I'd want isn't feasable for me at the moment. Especially after I saw what a MS51 looks like, now I do have an obsession to satisfy.
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June 2003
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Melbourne, Victoria, Aust...
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September 2004
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Fri, 04 February 2005 10:00
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Yeah, I prefer the flat grille too. My mate's scrapped one didn't have the "snout". 
I did the same digging on that site with the GSS - nothing.
I wonder when the Mustang style rear lights came in, like on this car:
http://www.geocities.com/russellmtb/corona.html
They look cool!
BTW: Spotted a RT5# Corona 1600S hardtop in Melbourne today. Bright blue with white 15" simmons wheels and sitting about three inches off the ground. Unfortunately it had a huge bonnet scoop that would be more a home on a dragster, which ruined the visuals for me. 
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Fri, 04 February 2005 10:52
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The Mustang style came out in 1970. The first 1969 and the 1971 madels had flat horizontal taillights although being Toyota, they were still subtley different to one another.  I can't think of any model Toyota or otherwise, that had so many changes front and rear in the space of about 3 years. Anyway I would not say no to this green one. I imstakenly thought all the GSS's had power windows - they must have been an option. I don't know if all the Mark2s were called Toyopet in Japan, or whether they had "Toyota" ones as well for different sales channels.
The guy who runs the Rising Sun Collectors register has a green one with the nicest second series grille, with power windoows and factory auxiliary spotties hiding behind the grille + the wagon.
The yellow one looks pretty good - a pity that they used a mobile phone camera to take the pic
I have seen that blue RT51 in Unique Cars a while ago for sale. I would almost bet my life that it is still the same owner driving it today, for obvious reasons....
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Melbourne, Victoria, Aust...
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September 2004
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Fri, 04 February 2005 23:46
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That RT51 1600S - If it's the same one that was advertised in the Melb Trading post six-to-twelve months ago, the price was probably part ofthe issue too. He wanted $14,000!
Maybe we should stick that RT72 GSS and the green RT114 GT I found on another site in the same container. Dream on!
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Sat, 05 February 2005 22:40
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I meant stick the green GT from Japan in with the GSS, not the green SR-5 from the USA. 
WHERE did you get that scan? It's awesome! You could always scan it in two or three pieces and photoshop it back together. 
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Sun, 06 February 2005 11:00
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Which Green GT? JDM?  I only remember the link to the blue JDM 1800GL, as well as the green US spec one. I don't know about you but I prefer the look of the SR version with the black grill and wheels 
The scan I got from a Japanese book called Car Wacthers Guide: Toyota 1955-1991, which seems to have been done by Car Graphic, a local car rag. It has 280 pages and is in b&w with a minimum of text and basically has a chronological layout of each Toyota model range, starting with the Starlets and Corollas etc from 1955 (or the earliest year for the model) on 1991 etc. Some interior pics but mostly several variants of the car as per the scan I have done. I know about Photoshop but it was late and I was lazy 8)>
If you want I can do a proper one and email it to you. But the print quality is not stunning (more like a really good newspaper print rather than high grade glossy stuff than the Japanese can do so well) nor the paper quality high, which is why the book did not cost that much on eBay. I had a similar pic of the SR and GT in my World Cars from 1975 but I did this scan as it showed a lot in one go. I missed out on a similar Nissan /Datsun item as the auction ended whilst I was at work and the combo of my PC having an off moment and a tempremental network meant that I missed out.
Speaking of eBay there are some interesting things (for me) that are on auction. I have a job interview in the near future and these items all end closely together and I have to find an internet cafe and log on, otherwise by the time I get home after the interview it will be too late . I will tell you what they are after the event - don't want too much competition....
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Melbourne, Victoria, Aust...
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September 2004
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Re: RT72 Corona
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Mon, 07 February 2005 01:58
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Posted reply in my RT114 thread, as we are getting off the RT72 sale topic!
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