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Just made a post in original thread: put a wanted ad on Gumtree, and ended up with two! Got one already via eBay, and the other is in the post.

Well I put a wanted ad on Gumtree. First another Gumtree user gave me a link to someone on eBay that had one, bought that. Then a guy on Gumtree says, "I got one of those!" So I bought that too. I've got the first one, and the second one is on its way.

My 1963-4 RS41 has owners', engine & chassis manuals; what I don't have is the body manual. Does anyone have one that I can buy?

Thanks for your response Tony 🙂 One resource I don't have is the RS40 series BODY manual - while I do have the ENGINE & CHASSIS ones. Would be interested in obtaining the BODY one.

So now for an update........ In the intervening years since I first posted, Dad has gone upstairs, we're now in our own house (paying off our mortgage not the landlady's), and I've recently had built a nice big shed in which to home this Crown, its Valiant and Sunbeam sisters, and lots of other stuff. The shed took about a year from go to whoa, at least nine months of that due to COVID, disrupted supply chains, COVID, lots of encores from La Nina, COVID....and of course COVID. All that aside, now that the Crown is here, I can start to get down to tin tacks, and commence some restoration at last! Dad had begun the process of getting the car going again, by removing some of the engine's ancillaries, such as radiator, water pump, carb, dizzy - but not much more. He did buy a brand new cam (still in its Toyota wrapping!). So not far from the point where the old 3R can be removed. Among other things that need renewing, the rubbers/seals for the doors/windows, boot & bonnet are all a bit crumbly as you might expect. I've already contacted 3 different old auto rubber suppliers, but have yet to hear back. Any other tips for who I should contact? I'll pop in some more recent photos soon.

Has this one progressed in restoration?

Car was sold June last year - to someone who was interested in preserving it for what it is.

Just to let you all know, the MS65 specific manuals were recently sold.

Item: Sundry Toyota factory workshop manuals Crown repair manual - 2M engine group Corona repair manual - RT series body group 2R engine repair manual 12R engine repair manual (with 2R inclusion) 21R/22R engine repair manual (with 21R-C inclusion) Location: Dapto, NSW Website: Here & Gumtree https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/dapto/textbooks/various-toyota-workshop-manuals/1174615940?posted=true Item Condition: Used Reason for Selling: Not required by me/to make available to people who could best use these items Price and Payment conditions: $25 each negotiable or $150 the lot/payment by bank transfer please Any additional information: Shipping: Will ship to requested address/postage cost additional to agreed item(s) price Pictures: none at present Contact Details: Contact me by Private Message

As I continue to sort through all of the - everythingunderthegoddamnsun - that is in my Dad's house, much to my relief, I recently came across many, many Toyota workshop manuals. Including the ones I need for this car, namely RS Series Engine Group and RS Series Chassis Group. I was fearful that I'd find no such thing, as my OM was fiercely old school in so many ways ("don't need a bloody workshop manual, I can figure it out!"). FWIW there are other workshop manuals for other toy motors; this will be a subject for another post.

now on carsales.com.au https://seller.carsalesnetwork.com.au/my-ads?advertId=5058110

1st pic shows how it had been "living" (more like dozing) for the last nearly 40yrs. 2nd pic is a little bit of a sneak peak, showing how good it still is. 3rd, 4th & 5th pic after it had been hauled (with 25% protest - see above) out of the garage. Prior to bath, but that was coming......... 6th pic - that classic cockpit 7th & 8th pic - getting aboard the tilt tray for its new temporary home down south.

Hi Warren, thanks for responding. I did try that, but I was unable to get any purchase on anything inside. Presumably you mean the two grommet-covered rectangular "windows" located at 10 & 4 (as you face the brake drum). I also tried a hub pulling device, which was bringing the drum away, interspersed with some hammering on the drum at various angles. What eventually worked was getting a lever on studs 1 & 3 (plus lots more mother's ointment ) and applying 110kg of me. This was the straw. Did a bit more of that, then popped the wheel back on to make it turn more. It does now, albeit reluctantly - but at least enough that it can be gotten onto the tilt tray, off again and manoeuvered into its storage garage.

This Cressida is for sale; it was once my parents' "keep-for-best" car. Mum passed away 2yrs ago and now my Dad is now in an aged care facility, and can no longer drive. It has 80k original km, and apart from a stainless steel exhaust system, is as delivered. It's a Silver GL, black bumpers and 14" alloys (in spite of my previous post), and otherwise unoptioned (no a/c - my Dad was very old school, aircon would sap engine power ). Has standard AM/FM radio and cassette player (!). Minor carpark damage (repaired) to FR guard, otherwise in good to excellent condition. It has recently been reregistered (deregistered 2yrs ago when Mum passed away) and therefore has a blue slip. For an interested collectory-type buyer, there is a period Toyota publicity brochure which can go with the car. It is fully road-registered for a year, reg CN-11-QC. EDIT: the carpark damage to the FR guard has been thoroughly repaired. In view of it's relative rarity (GL), its low k's, and good condition, I would like to get about $10k for it, although that's open to negotiation. I tried to get it featured in Survivor Car Magazine - it ticks all the boxes except as an 1989 model it's 2yrs too young. It would be good if a new owner could preserve it as it is, with not much modification, although I realise that such things will be out of my hands once it has a new owner. I am intending on advertising it via carsales.com.au. If I was buying it, I would consider the following mods: Conversion to LPG (7MGE would be much more economical and just as powerful) Adding to the stainless exhaust system with some extractors Retrofitting an aircon system from an optioned GL, GLX or Grande Replacing the cassette player with either a CD optioned sound system from a Grande or that of your choice This bit is beyond what I would do, but apparently there is a turbo version of the 7MGE that would slot straight in. Item: 1989 Toyota Cressida GL Sedan (silver) Location: Dapto, NSW Website: 1. https://seller.carsalesnetwork.com.au/my-ads?advertId=5058110 2. https://www.gumtree.com.au/s-ad/bass-hill/cars-vans-utes/1989-toyota-cressida-gl/1174614570?posted=true Condition: Good to Excellent (minor carpark damage to FR 'guard (repaired)). Reason for selling: See above (next of kin has no use for car). Shipping: Buyer to arrange if need be. Pictures: Contact details: contact me via PM

Have tried spraying mother's ointment (WD40) between the backing plate & the brake drum, with zero results. Hub (ie wheel bearing) has been checked for grease; what was found was old but plentiful. To be on the safe side, I grabbed the grease gun & pumped a bit more in there. Please, any suggestions??

My Dad has recently had to take up residence in an aged care facility, which for reasons as worked out by our everloving government, requires me to sell the family home - which also requires me to empty it prepatory to sale. That also means that the asbestos-ridden garage where our one-time family sedan (RS40) has been in dry storage since 1978, due to stripping the dizzy drive on the camshaft, has to be demolished. Said 1963 Crown Deluxe was disturbed from suspended animation yesterday, the next items on the agenda being a damn good bath, and unseizing of a recalcitrant FR wheel. She will be tilt trayed to a temporary home until I can make some room for her at home, where she will keep my 1970 Valiant Safari company. Yes, the eventual intention is to have her back in road-conquering form some time in the near future. Any advice on unseizing the wheel would be welcome (it's only been dragged a carlength thus far, enough to get it out of the garage). So far it's been suggested to me to spray some "penetrine" (WD40?) between the brake drum & the backing plate. If no other advice is forthcoming, I'll go with that. I'd dearly love to share some pics with you all of the emergence; these are on my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone at present. If someone could tell me how I can post those pics to this thread, I'd be most grateful.

Said Cressida is currently for sale, as my Dad is now in an aged care facility, and can no longer drive. It has 80k original km, and apart from a stainless steel exhaust system, is as delivered. It's a Silver GL, black bumpers and 14" alloys (in spite of my previous post), and otherwise unoptioned (no a/c - my Dad was very old school, aircon would sap engine power ). Has standard AM/FM radio and cassette player (!). Minor carpark damage (repaired) to FR guard, otherwise in good to excellent condition. It has recently been reregistered (deregistered 2yrs ago when Mum passed away) and therefore has a blue slip. In view of it's relative rarity (GL), its low k's, and good condition, I would like to get about $10k for it, although that's open to negotiation. I tried to get it featured in Survivor Car Magazine - it ticks all the boxes except as an 1989 model it's 2yrs too young. It would be good if a new owner could preserve it as it is, with not much modification, although I realise that such things will be out of my hands once it has a new owner. I am intending on advertising it via carsales.com.au. If I was buying it, I would consider the following mods: Conversion to LPG (7MGE would be much more economical and just as powerful) Adding to the stainless exhaust system with some extractors Retrofitting an aircon system from an optioned GL, GLX or Grande Replacing the cassette player with either a CD optioned sound system from a Grande or that of your choice This bit is beyond what I would do, but apparently there is a turbo version of the 7MGE that would slot straight in. Finally, if one of you good folk could please tell me how to post photos on here, then I can show you all what a gem this car is (all current photos are on my Samsung Galaxy S4 phone).

My info is that the GL has 14" wheels (as evinced by the one I currently have custody of) so therefore the GLX would have had 15" wheels.

So are we lacking Cressida threads or forums? I have custody of what I believe is a MX83, 1989 vintage. As I understand it, in this run of models (just before the Grande) there was a big selling GLX (with colour-coded bumpers & 16" wheels) and a not as well selling GL (black bumpers & 15" wheels), which was my parents' "keep-for-state-occasions" car.

My second MS65 was "Connie Crown" (the squeeze of the day had something to do with that IIRC).

I've never known how to pronounce this, is it a swearing kangaroo (Roo Cuss) or lots of noise (ruckus)?

Thanks for the welcome guys, will be posting some pix of all three cars in the near future.

Gedday all. Although I'm not currently driving any Toyotas, I was pretty well raised with them. My Dad graduated to Toyotas in the early 60s, after some decades of loving Citroens. My introduction to the Toyota world was Dad's first Toyota, a 1963 RS40 Crown Deluxe. This was our family car from 1965 (when Dad bought it as an ex-demo) until it shat a dizzy drive in 1978, since when its been dry stored. Classic barn find, you might say. Regrettably in recent months, Dad has become nursing home material, so I have to clear out the house - and several cars - in short order, some of which are Toyotas. Firstly, let me gently point out, that the RS40 won't be among those going "out the door" - I aim to have this one back on the road in the next few years, its few issues are relatively minor. Should be a gorgeous club cruiser Having said that, there is also a 1989 MX83? Cressida GL and a 2001 Camry CS-X 2.2l wagon (both one owner) that will be looking for new homes very soon.