Random # 151: Toyota Corona Stationwagon

- September 06, 2017

This circa 1980 Toyota Corona wagon, photographed in inner-city Hobart, was in great nick. The wide Sunraysia style wheels gave it a squat, slightly aggressive stance while the forward-mounted mirrors lent it an air of the JDM. It was otherwise ostensibly standard, save the inner headlights, which had some sort of prismatic thing happening that showed as a rainbow effect behind the lenses.

If, as all evidence suggests, it's an Aussie-built car, it will almost certainly feature a Holden Star-Fire 4 engine, as fitted to that manufacturer's four cylinder Torana and Sunbird models (the latter being the name later adopted to differentiate four cylinder Toranas from the six- and eight-cylinder siblings). Only the fully-imported Corona lift-back of that era featured a Japanese motor.

Sedans and wagons were further set apart from the liftbacks, in that the former were equipped with four-speed manual 'boxes whilst those in the better specced latter were all five-speeders. The liftbacks tended to have highly levels of interior trim, too.