1982 TE71 Corolla paddock basher rescue edition

As well as my turbo Sapporo (link here - retrorides.proboards86.com/index.cgi?board=readersrides&action=display&thread=1187528484 ), I have a 1982 Corolla SE 1.6 two door liftback which is an ongoing project.

I acquired it in 2005 off a bunch of kids who were using it as a paddock racer. Take one perfectly good elderly owner Corolla, proceed to rip out and bin the interior, paint the outside with various colours of housepaint, rip off the air filters housing and continue to race around in a paddock, slide into fences/ditches etc







After I acquired it I decided to paint it matte black just to make it one colour on the cheap:



And tinted the windows, also trial fitting my 16x7" BBS wheels:



At this stage I also bought a 2T-GEU with intentions to rebuild it and drop it in:



Original 2T-B pushrod twin carb engine:



After its Warrant Of Fitness (MOT) ran out I started sanding back panel by panel repairing all the dents, and rust which I kept finding





and the worst of the lot



Some months had gone by, and after moving to a new place I somewhat lost interest in it (about this time I purchased the Sapporo), until one day I started toying around with what colour to paint it - after trying a few coats of white on the front guards I decided it will do:



Couple coats later on the rest of the car:





I recently picked up some factory GX71 Cressida rims, which incidentally are the same as AE86 'black edition' rims. These are the same rims as on Billy's GX71 Chaser.

So this is where it stands at the moment, hopefully within the next month I can finish off the paint and get it back together and back on the road.