This is for sale locally to me, and I want it. Unfortunately I can't afford it, but figured you guys might enjoy seeing it anyway.
1985 Toyota GX70G Mark II Wagon imported from the Motherland, converted to a 1jzgte and Supra 5-speed. Has coilover suspension, FD RX-7 brakes and LSD from a Hilux.
It'd be a total Q-ship without the bling wheels, although the bling wheels are actually kinda cool.
Where is it and how much?
In Australia. And the guy is asking 10K, (AUD.)
nice except I really dont think I could get used to using my left hand to shift. Looks wicked cool though
basicly a cresseda on our side of the universe right?... if I fit in a cressy better i'd own one... the wagon has a live rear axle (vs IRS on the sedan) but has the same 5mge... easy enough to take the 7mgte stuff and boost the stock engine http://twosrus.com/Articles/5mgte.htm
but obviously the swap is far kewler :)...
Perfect!
Wonder what shipping it to the U.S. would cost.
Love them sleeper wagons!!!
Trust me, RHD is not hard to get used to at all. I got used to it in my first 10 mins of owning my mini. My wife and everyone I let drive it says the same thing. The thing that was hard to get used to is that I was used to my body being on the right side of the traffic lane. I thought the mini had a wicked pull to the left after I got it. Then I realized I kept drifting to the left because I am used to being on that side of the lane.
Does anybody besides me look at that first photo and say, "7/8 scale 81 Malibu wagon"?
Stealthtercel wrote:Does anybody besides me look at that first photo and say, "7/8 scale 81 Malibu wagon"?
No, it must be just you.
In reply to Stealthtercel:
Nah, I was thinking more Maxima wagon than anything else
DrBoost wrote:Trust me, RHD is not hard to get used to at all. I got used to it in my first 10 mins of owning my mini. My wife and everyone I let drive it says the same thing. The thing that was hard to get used to is that I was used to my body being on the right side of the traffic lane. I thought the mini had a wicked pull to the left after I got it. Then I realized I kept drifting to the left because I am used to being on that side of the lane.
I had a friend that worked in England for about 7yrs. He said it was remarkable how quickly he got used to it..but he never quite stopped walking up to the "wrong" side of the car when it was parked.
friedgreencorrado wrote:DrBoost wrote:Trust me, RHD is not hard to get used to at all. I got used to it in my first 10 mins of owning my mini. My wife and everyone I let drive it says the same thing. The thing that was hard to get used to is that I was used to my body being on the right side of the traffic lane. I thought the mini had a wicked pull to the left after I got it. Then I realized I kept drifting to the left because I am used to being on that side of the lane.
I had a friend that worked in England for about 7yrs. He said it was remarkable how quickly he got used to it..but he never quite stopped walking up to the "wrong" side of the car when it was parked.
haha, its weird trying to shift with your left hand, if you are not left handed, but i would kill for a right hand drive anything!! Oh FriedCorrado, did you request a International Auto Parts Catalog yet? It will have any Alfa part you need...
Why not save a lot of hassle and find a stateside Cressida wagon to make the swap into?
Living in Japan, I didn't find driving on the right to be all that difficult (automatic rental though). I DID have to be very careful crossing streets on foot though as I learned that I really didn't check both ways before stepping out, but focused looking to the left first. Nearly stepped in front of a car a few times.
I got used to rhd and shifting left handed fairly quickly when i was in the UK, i did tend to get crossed up if i had to make a U-turn or pull out quickly, i'd end up pulling onto the right side instead of the left. shifting was really easy, it was a jetta, so the pattern and reverse location (push down, left, up) was just like shifting my MS3 from the passenger side.
i'm sure i annoyed a lot of drivers though drifting to the right lane to slow down to figure out where we were on the motorway.
I'm German (as the username implies) but I live in the UK. Learned to drive in Germany but I didn't find it too hard to switch to RHD. I drive off this island by car several times a year and go to the US regularly and the only time I ever got/get caught out is at one special junction in Marin County where I regularly end up on the wrong side of the road.
Other than that, not really a problem.
DrBoost wrote:Trust me, RHD is not hard to get used to at all. I got used to it in my first 10 mins of owning my mini. My wife and everyone I let drive it says the same thing. The thing that was hard to get used to is that I was used to my body being on the right side of the traffic lane. I thought the mini had a wicked pull to the left after I got it. Then I realized I kept drifting to the left because I am used to being on that side of the lane.
This is the truth, I found I dropped my passenger side off the edge a few times when I first started driving here.
I can only add that crossing a highway with a median causes the same problems, we tend to look the way we expect traffic then pull to the median to check the other way, this is a bad move 
Cressidas are plentiful in Australia, that car is a different model.
The worst part of driving in Ireland was using the wipers to indicate a turn.
Rusty_Rabbit84 wrote:haha, its weird trying to shift with your left hand, if you are not left handed, but i would kill for a right hand drive anything!! Oh FriedCorrado, did you request a International Auto Parts Catalog yet? It will have any Alfa part you need...
Yeah, I ordered the water pump & new timing belt from IAP. Was going to order the rebuild kit for the "detensioner" as well, but they were out. Ordered one from Trail Alfa (which one of y'all turned me onto). I just discovered they're discontinued..maybe I should have ordered two..
I saw a real S13 Silvia in Marietta last month..I know it wasn't a 240sx with the bodywork because it was RHD. That's one conversion I think would be more expensive than having the thing shipped from Japan..
Stealthtercel wrote:Does anybody besides me look at that first photo and say, "7/8 scale 81 Malibu wagon"?
yes but not as cool
