corolla love affair (ke's/ae's)

[driftae71]

just thought it would be interesting to hear about ppl's love for the worlds most popular car in its sexiest shape and style early 80's FTMFW...

Well ill start... i was 17 just got my license and was given(not by choice) an XF auto wagon as my first car(BIG YELLA for short) and was into drifting and knew the xf wasnt the boat to get me to D1... so i bought a ae71 2 months after i got my license... and from that day on chased the rain in a stock cs-x 71... memorable moments were outsliding a fully setup r32 at chetwyn street in logan because he was too afraid to slide downhill in fear for his nice kit and shiney wheels ... crashed that one into 2 week old STi so that hurt the wallet as i wasnt insured(cover letter ran out a day before) bought another 71 for $450 at 2am one morning... and then had a break after i wrote off the 71 into 2 poles at about 80km/h... have owned a couple since as daily's and what not but now have a dedicated 70 track car that is to save me from losing my license... but yeah the love affair continues i have another 70 down the back and getting a new one as a daily...

so please share stories as i think its awesome that some peoples first love is a corolla and no matter how old and rusty they are they will always see them as porn... or maybe thats just me

[JoshKE]

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (driftae71 @ Dec 5 2007, 01:02 AM) </div>Dude... Fuck your licence... how about your life! (and others' lives)

Track car sounds like it might be a good idea!!!

[driftae71]

Dude... Fuck your licence... how about your life! (and others' lives)

Track car sounds like it might be a good idea!!!
[/quote]

wasnt that bad poor weather(rain, greasy roads) bad directions, and speeding attributed to the 80km/h crash both occupants were ok and laughing about it now but i dont do anything stupid with others in the car anymore or in public areas of major traffic/congestion...

cheers for ur concern but ill be fine...

[orange32]

I got my first ae71 when i was 17, had a laser as a daily and wanted a project car. I was starting to get into drift (just watching at qr and vid's) and mark (marke70) had already bought his first one (which incidently i now own).

I liked the shape and price of them and was assured of their potential with the then mysterious 4age. I found a spirit down the coast and snapped it up for $800. It wasnever registered but it still had plates so i drove it everywhere, learnt to slide in it and then sold it off after a few months.

Then i bought my nissan and wanted to get rid of the laser, so i swapped it to a mate for his ae71 for some fun times.

I will always either own one or be looking for one as long as I'm into cars/motorsport which i cant see slowing down for a long, long time to come.

[jezz]

Im a 1980's toyota guy so i guess i was allwaybs bound to have a corolla!.
Started looking for something that i could use for a track car years ago when i first got the mr2. Saw the ae71/ke70, realised that i could use a heap of sprinter parts on it and it went from there. Tracked down a white 82 ke70 at first. Picked it up for 150$. stupidly started pulling the engine etc out before i had the other gear to go in and it now sits in the back of the shed waiting.

Next i was told by a mate that a friend of the family had a 1984 ke70 that i could have for free, the catch being that it was 2 hours away but it was driveable and in good condition. Armed with a permit i went down to pick it up, spent all day and couldnt' get it started (to this day i never did). Went and picked it up on a trailer a few weeks later with a few mates. That car went to scrap a few days ago!

A while back i was randomly browsing on toymods for stuff for the mr2 and spotted someone had a corolla for sale, pm'd the guy and it turned out to be an ae71. Went down armed with a permit to check it out. Car turned out to be a blue spirit which i picked up for 500. 9 months later and its just on road worthy, early next year my engine etc is goin in.

[Gilly]

was introduced to the drift scene via a mate and his 180SX

looked around to see what i could afford to "buy into" the sport. liked 86's but not the price tag that comes with them. flicked through an old ZOOM mag and found a NZ KE, matt black with a 20v headed 4AGZE that had been converted to GTE.

read a little more and found the 70 shared the same platform as the 86 so a entry level chassis was found.

mind you i found a cheap 86 before i found a 70 but switched later after writing off said 86 had an 86 since then but i think i will stick with the *e7* platform, i just prefer the boxy 4 door shape.

they don't need kits, don't need updated front ends and tail lights etc

rims + height = perfection

[Bustin_86]

There cheap and nasty.

There nasty like a black man says nasty. "Oh, thats naaaaaarrrrssssssstttttttttyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy"

Most fun stock car, not scared to write it.

[AsleepAtTheWheel]

My story goes much along the same lines as Gilly. I started following the drift scene way back in the day when Denzo first appeared in Hot4s (yeah yeah I know) and really started the Aussie drift phenomenon with his purple FC RX7 at Japanese Motorsport in Adelaide. Got my brother (mate with 180 in Gilly's post I think) into it at few months later and, being a chippy vs. me being a busted ass poor uni student, he had the funds to sink into a sweetly setup 180SX running all the fruit (Top Secret tuned FConV SR20 etc etc), whilst I had to do with clutch kicking my diesel ( :blink: ) trayback Hilux ute, known as the Traffic Light Hero. This was because if you timed it right, you'd be able to sneak up the outside lane at traffic lights then take off right on the green allowing you to get juuuust infront of the car in the right hand lane before the merge, with plenty of bonus smoke. It's amazing what low ratios and plenty of torque can do. :lol:

Started to get heavily into the scene, mainly as my bro's spanner twirler (whack), and begun looking for a Levin/Trueno import. Then I got a bit involved with a mates build-up (now Biggo's Snot-rocket) and thought it looked porn, read the same article as Gilly and went looking for a KE of my own. Still wouldn't mind a Levin though

I'm a bit of a old-school historic racer fan (eg BDA Escorts, Lotus Cortinas etc - still have plans to do a SR 2dr Mk1 Esky down the line) thanks to my old man, so something with some age really appeals to me. Much like Gilly I love the fact that there's minimal plastic and they can look so damn low and wide. In addition, 4 doors give me more room to stash my crap (including my mates), and they can be stealth as hell :ph34r:

[Jason]

I wanted a 1st car. So i was looking around, stumped across twincam corollas. Found out about the 4agze, then found out about RWD. 2+2=5, i bought a ae71. And so the saga begins and its still not finished... Now i drive a volvo for my 1st car VOLVO!

But i do love building stuff and nothings been as fun as building a car from the ground up!

[embrace]

to tell u the truth it was initialD that did it for me