Toyota Celica 1979 St

[yellow]

...we have a lovely yellow 1979 Toyota Celica ST 1.6 twin carb in good condition with a years MOT ...any offers ...

[babyblonde117]

...we have a lovely yellow 1979 Toyota Celica ST 1.6 twin carb in good condition with a years MOT ...any offers ...

have you any pics of your car

[Carlgolsby]

Hello and where is you location?

[yellow]

hello ..................we do have some pictures and i will try and scan them in and post them but it will take a couple of days......................and we are in north london near wood green mail us if you need any more info...................

[bathell]

Is the car still available

[Peanut]

Is the vehicle still available.

I can be contacted @ paynotax@btinternet.com

[jimma]

Cant be bothered looking up dates but if it's a mk1 rather than a mk II i'm very interested! - j_triggs2002@yahoo.co.uk

[Carlgolsby]

'79 would be mkii

[jimma]

'79 would be mkii

Bah :(

[mcompton]

How many miles does the engine have?

[yellow]

............the engine has about 90,000 miles and even though we havent really been trying to sell we have finally decided to sell ...very reluctantly due to needing an estate for work..erhh! please email on tessandreece@hotmail.com and keith m if your reaading this sorry i never got in touch but i lost your email address.............

[Scot]

'79 would be mkii

that depends on your point of view....

I would suggest it was at least a MK3 :-)

model codes:

TA20 and TA21 were from 1970 - 1973 (fuel filler cap in a flip down position in the middle of the rear bumper)

TA22 was 1973 - 75 (fuel cap moved for US laws to pillar)

TA23/RA23 (longer wheel base = major revision = different car, also had square indicators as opposed to angled ones of the earlier) 1975

RA25,27,28 and 29 where the different generations of the fast back model from 1975 to 1977 - or 8?

TA40/RA40 were from 1979 (think) to early 80's

this is where my knowledge runs short. The early 40 serries had round headlights, but the later ones had square.

Then we go into the TA/RA60's and 64's??? and onwards. Also think this was when the changed them to FWD, but again unsure of this fact :-)

Engines on the early TA20's was the 8-RC

Then the TA22's had 2T, 2T-B, 2T-G, Then the emision controlled 2TG's like R, GEU etc. This engine serries also applies to all TA23 upto, and including, TA40

the RA23's had the 18R serries engines ie. 18R-C, 18RG, 18R-GUE. This serries of engines apply in the RA serries cars up to, and including, the 40's

Thats my bit of history, and rant, to all referances of MK 1, MK 2 etc. to me its like calling a granny smith's a cox's errrrrr bad referance

[TheNissanMan]

and so the fountain of all celica knoweldge speak's.....

you should get a proper document together for the site, would be good to have a history of all the common and not so common toyota models ;)

[Scot]

I know of someone whos allready done that, if i ask him, could we stick it as a link for all to see? Is their a links section, it would make my life easier!

[celicacity]

Nice try Carl, but you really don't want to get involved in Celica model codes - its a nightmare.

European 'Flatlight' Celicas were 22s as well, with 20s unique to the US. There were TA28s in Europe but never officially in the UK.....There were RA23 Coupes, but only in Japan, the UK and Denmark with all 300 or so UK cars as Autos.

T/RA25/27 were the same overall dimensions as later 28s and 29s but based on the 22 floorpan, so they had the same wheelbase as a 22. Everything forward of the windscreen on the 28/23 was unique to those models, but from the screen back, a 22 is the same as a 23........

So that makes at least 1.35 generations, before you even think of 40s and 60s..

Fortunately Wayne Stephenson is Aus has compiled the most accurate tables on the net and he can be reached through the Classic Celica Group on Yahoo Groups.

Marcus

[Scot]

Ha,

Marcus, that was who i was gonna ask........ lol. I havnt seen you on the Yahoo site in ages. I was the one who talked about Peter Ripply etc and the where abouts of his cars. dont know if u remember... i bought one of his heads from Martin Williams

[celicacity]

Hi Scot.

Its has been a while, good to hear from you again.

Very busy this last year or so being made redundant again and taking on more impossible Celica restos...lots of tales to tell, but wrong time and wrong thread.

Marcus

[Scot]

Ha ha, well hopefully u'll post um soon, because ill look forward to reading them!!!