This little brown Toyota Corona wagon has lived in a house at the other end of our block for many years, close to twenty. When I walked by the other day, I saw this sad sight. Did it happen during our recent arctic blizzard? Whatever; but I suspect it’s long and useful life has finally come to an end. Of course, anything can be fixed, and there’s probably another one in a junk yard somewhere, but is it worth it?
I have seen worse damaged cars driven on the road, sometimes the same ones daily. So it could potentially last a few more years with new headlights and it’s hood hastily bent back into shape and duct taped shut.
You have to be madly in love with a car like this to invest in fixing that kind of damage.
That’s a sad sight indeed, even if it is a Toyota!
One of our neighbor’s boys got grandpa’s car – a nice, old tan Buick Century, I believe. Just a Celebrity in disguise, but in very good shape, save for a little rust. All of a sudden one day I passed it while walking the dog and noticed it hit something square in the middle of the grille.
Even though the damage wasn’t severe and doesn’t hamper drivability, no car looks good with its teeth knocked out.
I know the car probably won’t be fixed. If it were mine, I don’t know if I would fix it, either. Nothing collectable about it, same for the wagon in question.
It would be a shame to scrap it since the car looks solid otherwise. If the owner is able to do the wrenching themselves and can find a replacement front clip locally, this looks like an easy fix. There’s no frame damage and everything that needs to be replaced is bolted on. OTOH, if they were looking for an excuse to replace the car, this would be it.
that 20R/22R engine lasts forever.i hope ita a 5speed.
Does not look like the upper subframe is bent, even the radiator looks undamaged, and I do not see an AC Condenser. If you replaced the headlight assembly, got a new grill cover, fixed the bumper, and straightened out the hood the car will be drivable. I wonder how easy it is to get parts for a Toyota Corona, I have my doubts that parts are still made.
Yes it does look very fixable, but body parts are virtually non-existent. I’ve never even seen this car in a junkyard. If you do find any parts, it will probably cost $$$$
probably true. If that was a later model Toyota the parts would be less than $200 at the savage yard, well worth repairing
The radiator looks to be intact. A couple of bungee cords and a roll of duct tape in it’ll be back in business with a little extra character as long as its owner doesn’t care what it looks like which, I’m guessing, he doesn’t. Just a hunch.
Just 10 minutes to repair that its barely damaged, pull the radiator support panel out some lights and yer good to go
Definitely looks pretty repairable. I guess the big question would be for $2000-2500, can the owner find something better or that he/she likes more? My guess is no otherwise, that likely would have happened by now!
I must assume that the owners of this vehicle were mortified. Given this I think that they have only one question to answer. Do we fix it or, do we park it in the back yard? Somehow, I don’t think that money will ultimately determine fate of this vehicle.
Taking out the grill made me realize how much those Corona wagons resemble a K-car wagon (or vice versa).
A friend in Sydney had a Corona that model or similar when Toymota went FWD it was decided FWD would not sell to Aussies so JDM Corona RWDs were imported for a couple of years untill the first gen Camry was released. Toyota made the fatal error in OZ of using Holden starfire 4bangers in their cars in 78/79 and permanently sullied an other wise good cars rep these were imported fully built up to ADR standards unlike JDM cars and had the 2.4 motor which is indestructible in normal sevice.
There’s a sedan around here, it’s brown, rusty and has dents everywhere but it still runs