You’re not going to find a rear-wheel-drive AE86-platform Corolla GT-S in a low-priced self-service wrecking yard, not these days. The later front-wheel-drive Corolla GT-S FX16 shows up in such yards every now and then, but the AE92 version of the GT-S that followed isn’t seen quite as often. Here’s one that I found in the San Francisco Bay Area last month. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1990, 1990 Toyota Corolla, 1990 Toyota Corolla GT-S, 1990s, Corolla, Down On The Junkyard, junkyard, Junkyard Find, Toyota, toyota corolla, Toyota GT-S
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