Rear-wheel-drive AE86 Corolla GT-Ss are worth bucks these days, and you won’t see them in low-priced self-serve wrecking yards. The AE82 front-wheel-drive Corolla GT-S hasn’t held its value so well, and so examples do show up on The Crusher’s doorstep. We saw this white ’87 in California last year, and now I’ve found this silver ’87 in Colorado. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1980s, 1987, 1987 Toyota Corolla, 1987 Toyota Corolla GT-S, Corolla, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, FX16, junkyard, Junkyard Find, nummi, Toyota, toyota corolla, Toyota Corolla GT-S
Tagged as 1980s, 1987, 1987 Toyota Corolla, 1987 Toyota Corolla GT-S, Corolla, Denver, Down On The Junkyard, FX16, junkyard, Junkyard Find, nummi, Toyota, toyota corolla, Toyota Corolla GT-S
Just a few years after Toyota confused American car shoppers by badging the early Tercel as the “Corolla Tercel,” they offered two very different vehicles as the 1987 “Corolla GT-S.” One was the AE86 coupe, based on the older rear-drive Corolla platform and much beloved by present-day drifters, and the other was the front-drive FX16 hatchback, built in California and equipped with the same 16-valve 4AGE engine as the AE86. The FX16 was sort of goofy-looking, with sharp angles and cheezy-looking plastic panels, but it was a screamin’ fast competitor to the VW GTI and held together much, much longer than its Wolfsburg rival. 
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