My 93' Corolla from New Zealand (JDM AE100)

Thats an awesome looking Corolla!!!! We don't have Corolla's that look like that here in SoCal. Great job!!

 

Thanks mate. I ship JDM Corolla parts to the US all the time so you may see some nice ones popping up soon

My latest addition - A rare OEM (optional extra) under-seat tray. It has a bracket which gets mounted underneath the passenger's seat (screw holes were already there) and allows you to store various items, such as tools, a first aid kit, map books, hand wipes, cleaning cloths etc. It could also come in useful if you're wanting to hide your GPS, radar detector, stereo face-plate etc when leaving the vehicle unoccupied. First one I've ever come across and I got it for a steal . Was hard to take photos of it, but here it is:

 

Wow!! your car always amazes me!! never knew ther were that many options for a corolla!! lol we deff dont have anything like that here in the states..

 

Thanks! The amount of options that Toyota released for the Japanese AE100/AE101 Corollas was insane :googly:. Looking forward to finishing my collection by finding each and every one of them

 

I fitted some personalised plates today. Would love to know what people's interpretation of the word "whipped" means, so feel free to post your comments below

 

"Whipped"...to be totally in love with. Nothing else exists except for whosver/whatever the person is "whipped" for. That's my take on it.

 

like white whipped cream!! lol

 

That's one way it could be interpreted, but unfortunately not the one I was going for. A guy on another car forum summed it up quite nicely by saying:

"this car has you wrapped around its little finger.

every factory option it wants you give it"

You sir are right on the money! :woot:. That was exactly what I was going for when I bought the plate, although I've heard some interesting ideas since then, haha. Glad you saw it the way I did


I attended a Toyota meet last night and a friend of mine snapped some shots of my car:






Also, finally got my door cards reupholstered with the Corolla GT fabric (fabric transferred from one set of door cards to the other). I've had the GT seats installed for about 18-months, but never got around to getting the door card fabric transferred across because every upholsterer I went to wanted to charge between $500-700 (couldn't just swap the GT door cards straight over because the plastic was grey, whereas the interior plastic in my SE Limited is plum).

A lot of places didn't even want to attempt the job, mainly because the door card was all one piece, so they'd have to tuck it in perfectly whilst also lining up the holes for the electric window switch etc. Ended up finding an Indian guy who has been in the business for 50-years that was willing to do it for $180. Dropped it off yesterday before lunch and it was ready at 11am this morning

Here's the result:

 

Ahhhh whipped like cream!! I love the pattern of the seats and door panels!!!!

 

Thanks bro, glad you like the fabric

This arrived from Japan this morning - An OEM cabin filter. It was a very rare optional extra, and I didn't even know it existed until about 6-months ago. I managed to find the rare cabin filter door to hold it in, so have been waiting for this to arrive. I installed it about half an hour ago, so here's some pics of the filter, door and finished product:

 

Nice! It looks fairly simple to change filters.

 

Unfortunately looks can be deceiving. Fitting the filter was a nightmare. There's no clearance between the length of the filter and the floor of the car, so I literally had to bend the filter on some crazy angles to get it in there. Then I discovered it was the wrong way around so had to take it back out and put it back in again :cry:. Lets just say that I'm glad it won't need to be replaced for another 15,000km

 

Damn!!! No wonder it's super rare...nobody wants to deal with it. Good job on showing that bitch who's boss!!!!

 

Hahaha, cheers bro. I think I might leave the HVAC on recirculate for a while so that I can save the life of the filter

 

A couple of shots that I took about an hour ago, just before the rain set in:

 

Looks great man!! Yeah some of those filters are not the easiest to put in even in the new cars. lol

 

Thanks man. Yeah they can be a real bastard sometimes, lol.


We've had a lot of rain here lately (and it's meant to be summer, lol), but the sun finally arrived today so I decided to make the most of it and snap a few pics of the Corolla:

 

sweet ride

 

Thanks!!

 

Here's some new shots that I took today: