My KE26 Corolla Panelvan

[RA28GT]

Hey guys not sure if this is your sort of thing but i thought I would throw it up here. Guys from rollaclub will know it pretty well.

Body is fantastic with only a couple dents and no rust apart from very minor surface rust. Interior is amazing with an uncracked dash and dark blue NZ spec interior. Mechanics are good just need a few adjustments here and there.

Since I brought the car from Nick i have:

- 13x7 Mazda steel wheels - sandblasted, painted rim flicker white with silver center

- New 175/60R13 with whitewalls

- Lowered the front with brand new 5kg 70-80mm lower springs (thanks Ryan)

- New body molds down sidelines

- Chrome wheel arch molding

- Rubbed away alot of surface on the stone tray and other various spots. Just disappeared was an easy fix.

- Painted the inner guards with black sound deadener

- Made up a new cover for the back out of 3mm mdf and covered it with a dark blue vinyl (pretty close to original colour)

- New JAF badge

- Painted wheel arches on panel area

- Painted grille and trim plastics - black grille with silver surround

- Painted behind front matte black

- Few stone chip touchups

- New healights with some H4's

- General Interior tidy up

When the previous owner had it:

After I've owned it for a few days:

Visor Removal and interior:

Fixing the bad guard:

Wheels:

[RA28GT]

Painting arches:

Behind the trims:

New Panel floor:

and Finally as it stand today:

[DJKOR]

Lovin' it mate.

[dezzymun]

OMG OLD SCHOOL!! love the old corollas! can't wait to see the finished product of this

[Guest]

Love it, Did you get those steelies re-barreled?

[dutchie101]

Wow, great! Very neat, loving the steelies too! SA Represent! B)

[Blind Kid Seeks]

Mate this is just Perfection....

loving every inch of this!

what are you future plans?

[RA28GT]

Love it, Did you get those steelies re-barreled?

They were re barreled 20 years ago with ROH barrels. They were bugger when i got them but a good sandblast went a long way. To have wheels re-barreled here in SA they charge $220 a wheel.

Mate this is just Perfection....

loving every inch of this!

what are you future plans?

Not much plans to be honest as its my Daily Driver. Just get it looking pretty much perfect, theres a few things still to be painted and engine bay needs to be tidied up. Mechanically will be putting in a 5K (1.5L) 5 speed to get it better at highway driving (I do 600+km weekly) and possibly some coilovers in the front.

[SecaBoy]

well done mate... thats a great looking old school rolla! :D