Well, how to I begin to explain this car? This was a daily driver for various members of the family at various times, but it was originally bought as Jon's college car. It's a rusty beater that refuses to die and runs great now that we put a decent carb on it. Ugly, but fun. If it wasn't for the rust, I'd bring it back from the near-dead. It's actually got a great collection of performance parts on it and sitting in the garage that could be used on it, but it's not worth my time to do much with it anymore. It's up for sale if someone wants it, think of it as a "performance parts car - all the parts you want to spice up your ride all in one place, plus a parts car!"

• Weber 32/26DGEV carb with completely functional emissions systems - passes WA emissions with flying colors!
• Alloy wheels (not pictured) and nice tires
• Doug Thorley header and complete performance exhaust system
• MSD 5 ignition box w/tach adaptor
• New catalytic converter

There is easily $1000 worth of performance parts on or with the car - the carb setup alone is worth $400, the header is $200, the exhaust is another $200, tires and wheels are $500 easily, plus it comes wrapped in an entire running and well optioned vehicle (AC, power steering, full instrumentation, rear defroster, rear wiper/washer, and CD player) with all of the parts that exactly fit another 1980-1983 Toyota Corolla. It really is a good deal for someone who has a nice stock 1980-1983 Corolla and wants to spice it up with the common performance upgrades like carb, exhaust, ignition, and wheels/tires. Make me a reasonable offer and it's yours.

The history of the Rowand Corolla - by Mom

This car came into our family many years ago. It was purchased for our oldest son as his driver. That way I didn't have to get up in the middle of the night and pick him up from work. He was very proud of her and loved her deeply. When he graduated from high school, we sold him the car for $1 and he was very excited!

However, after he graduated high school and went to a town two hours away from his family (and his mechanic/father), he started having trouble with it. What kind of trouble I couldn't tell you, Mike is the mechanic. Anyway, it was engine trouble. So it was determined since Jon's work was delivering pizza, that he needed a more reliable car.

Mike, being the mechanic that he is (and knowing the car had air conditioning) bought the vehicle from Jon (even though it wouldn't run at the time) and helped Jon find another vehicle. So, we had it towed to our house and now the Corolla was ours again including the bumper stickers Jon attached.

After working on the engine, Mike had her on the road and running relatively well. However, there was a new carburetor in the garage waiting on another part to come in.

So that's the story of our acquisition of the Corolla and adding it to our fleet of cars.

So now, here's some other pictures of the car and stuff that goes on or in the car:

Here are the wheels:

The Dismantling

Yet another car has gone to the great junkyard in the sky. I parted it out to get cash for other projects. Various bits are still available, so ask if you want something. And yes, my daughter did help me with this. She stepped on the brakes so I could unbolt the wheels after the car was jacked up -  she's was a very good little helper.

Purchasing Order

This was Car #12. The first car I bought for my son. My first experience with actually doing performance upgrades on a non-American car. My first experience with electronic carburetion - and it was all bad.

Comments? Kudos? Got some parts you'd like to buy/sell/barter/swap? Nasty comments about my web page so far? You can email Mike or Debbie.

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