01-11-2010 12:26 AM

This immaculate 1977 Toyota Celica hails from America’s Dairyland but you won’t be getting any swiss cheese here. The seller says it has never been driven in Wisconsin’s harsh winters and contains absolutely zero sheetmetal dings. It has most of its dealership documents, the original tires, and only 14,105 miles! Look at that sumptuous tan [...]

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Just how many kidneys do you expect us to have?

http://www.classiczcars.com/forums/search.php?searchid=852374

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Edited January 11, 201015 yr by Darrel

Also, have you noticed how many of these time capsule "kidney-cars" are automatics?

Wow get a news paper picture with that car, Hagrety listed it as a car going extinct in an article in their magazine. I think you can look it up on their website. They had criteria for this category; 10,000 or more were made, insured less than 10 of them, and can not locate 15 or more of that car.

I hope it finds a new home that will care for her. I would be interested, but I'm restoring a Z right now, I like stick shifts and prefer earlier models of this body style. If it was a early 70's I might give up the Z for a, basically new old car.

The last Celica GT, later found out was a 73 or 74, was so rusty you would need to use the remaining fender panels to guide you how to make the rest of the body. I also weirded out the driver who didn't speak a lick of English, and thought I was crazy when I asked if I could see the engine.

More than 15 of 'em here on the West Coast, I'm sure. There's two or three of them here in the Eugene area alone. None as nice as that one, though.

Hey I know if you look hard enough you will find them, sorry they have it on the threaten list. They also had the MKI Supra, the RX2, and an American favorite of mine the 88 Feiro (the year they finally got it right then discontinued it ).

Link to artical

http://www.hagerty.com/lifestyle/hobby_article.aspx?id=61420

It's a shame that we are lousing a lot of iconic Japanese and 80's (especially early 80's) cars in the US. These cars are apart of our heritage, it is hard right now to save these cars the generation that these cars came from started to be less interested in performance and cars in general. Also the collector car market is right now vastly dominated by the mussel car era, but times are changing. It might be just a little later than I'd like to see. The good thing is if that nice 84-early 85 Supra comes up that I love it won't haft to pay much.

If you one you gets this car list congratulations, I can't wait to see what she brings.

I know of one with lower miles and belongs to one of our club members here in NY. 9k miles!

My Dad had that exact car in silver, too cool.

I used to have one of them.

I know of one with lower miles and belongs to one of our club members here in NY. 9k miles!

Man, I don't think I can ever understand how you can have a car with little miles like that. I love to drive, I knew of a 32 Ford with low miles like that just over 7,000 with original tires, only been on the road for the first 500 miles before the original owner died in 33. The car still sits in running order in a underground storage facility, with automotive axle storage blocks supporting it. The miles are from keeping the running gear moving.

I was talking with someone about great sports cars of the 60's, somehow my ride in a Mark IV GT40 came up. He asked how can you drive a car over a $1M I told him "easy you own it and looking at would not satisfy me, now I might buy track time for it, but I could not let it sit cars are to be driven, they fall apart if they don't move."