"I have not got any welding skills". Yeah, but I assure you your audience want to see you try. "I don't think I'm cut out for welding"; that's why I'm voting 'Yes', how about the rest of the audience?. (Don't make me start a petition)
@Steve Terry Yep a 1980's Toyota can only die in 2 ways. 1 car crasch 2 Tin worm . Mechanicly they are super reliable My neighboor ownes a 1982 J40 Diesel Landcruiser The most used tools he has to use is the welding and plasma torch He learned welding and sheetmetal fabrication on that car.
@Steve Terry Pre 50's.60's cars didn't rust so much as 70's early 80's cars. They wanted to produce cheaper and lighter cars with less material. The steel of those days was of a lower grade quality with more inpurities like copper. In wet/salty climates those inpurities gave an electrolitic effect and increased rusting. Technical advancements and laws in safety cars made them use higher grade and stronger steel. Higher strength steel rust even way more then normal steel so they had to be electrolytic zinc plated. Sadly we lost alot of very beatifull designed cars from all over Europe to the tinworm. Imagine a dipped and zinc plated jaguar Mark 2 shell with a underneath a technical modern Lexus.
@@obelic71 The likes of Vauxhall elevated rust maggots to King of the Road status by leaving their car and van bodies outdoors in British weather, sometimes for many weeks on end, before applying the outer coats of paint. Some Vauxhall cars would fail their first MOT Test because of corrosion. I'm not joking or exaggerating; it happened to a work colleague who bought a brand new Viva. Rust was showing within 6 months, and those rust maggots were voracious.
"Difficult to put a value on it". Not really, I got to £20 and thought I was being generous but then I saw your face, you were like a kid on Xmas morning, lovely it's why I watch. But never ever go to a casino :)
@@jusb1066 by the time the wide boys have whinged about disposal of the tyres and moaned about the costs of safely getting rid of all the fluids good luck getting your £200.
I definitely remember when this car was advertised in the US they pronounced it "ter-SELL". I had a friend who owned one, he pronounced it "ter-SELL", not "TER-sul". Perhaps the pronunciation difference was a regional thing.
Hey Ian, if I managed to teach myself to use a cheap MIG welder (24 years ago at a local night school class) then I'm sure you can too, save yourself oodles of money. As Mrs Doyle said on Father Ted---"Gwaaan, gwaaan, gwaaan, gwaaan,". You certainly show splendid videos young man, thanks for sharing from that old Yorkshire "Geezer" in Ireland
The design inside and out reminds me very much of the Honda Civic Shuttle B reg that my father owned back in the 1980s. It had acres of light blue plastic inside 😀
TERCEL ! I love those so very much. I love the off-centre ATM-esque rear boot hatch bucket that houses the number plate. A shame that it's rather crusty along the edges. Extra points for the beigeness.
Good news! You will be able to find any parts you want for it in New Zealand. Both imported to NZ new and also many thousands brought in as grey imports.
Did anyone else call the Invacar a Spaz Chariot back in the day ? Not very PC today but the 70’s were not very PC ! There was a young disabled lad on our estate called Colin who drove one round like a rally driver and he put V8 stickers on it. Fun times !
I have not seen one of those in a long time, I can't wait to see it fixed up. As it stands the AWD Tercel (aka Sprinter Carib) may not be that valuable, but you are saving a car that frankly there probably only a few left. Oh the reason its called a Sprinter Carib is because if it was sold as a Tercel then it would be sold through the same dealers as the Corolla and as a Sprinter Carib it can be sold through the up market Sprinter dealers, back then Toyota sold their vehicles through various stores (dealers).
Both the Tercel and Sprinter were exclusive to Toyota Vista dealers (later Netz), so not sure your story adds up. Toyota Corolla dealers got the "Corolla II" instead of the Tercel, basically the same thing with a different grille (no Carib equivalent though). And Toyopet dealers got the Corsa, another Tercel derivative (also why the Opel Corsa was called the Opel Vita in Japan). For whatever reason, European Tercels like Ian's have the Corolla II grilles...
On lpg too.. Woo hooo in primary school I was fascinated by them although I didn't know anything about them. Had a matchbox toy version. Love the central display..
My dad had a 1983 Tercel 4WD Estate in the early 90s. We went to France in it when I was little. It was scrapped in the end cos of knackered piston rings, due likely with my Dad's rather cavalier attitude towards servicing. It was also riddled with rust when it was only about eight years old. Still remember how impressed I was by the EL and inclinometer even as a bairn! I would encourage you to at least try with this car. There weren't even that many on the road in the 1980s.
My aunt had one of these back in the 1980s. She worked as a midwife in the rural county Sogn og Fjordane in western Norway (today it's the northern part of Vestland county). She had the first mobile telephone I saw in real life, an NMT unit with a handset, in that car.
Really good motors in their day 100% reliable and a good workhorse. When you get back from down under Ian i really hope you can save it from being scrapped or scavenged for parts as their are so few of these 80s and early 90s classics left. Great video as usual.
My mate's parents had one of these from new and we used to borrow it all the time. I thought it was great with all the 'gadgets' and I even loved the styling (at the time). The main problem with the Tercel is you could hear it rot. I'm not sure what they were made from but these cars just dissolved away before your eyes. It's a great shame as this could and should have been one of the best cars of that era.
Still can find these occasionally in breakers yards in OZ, even sometimes with rust free body shells! Might need to pay for some excess baggage on the way back!
I was thinking the exact same thing - even looked on Gumtree (there's three for sale there now, all waaaaaaaaay better condition (no rust) starting at $1400 (it'll cost Ian more than that to get the rust fixed on his). Sorry to say, I think his Nut has finally fallen off his Hub.
@@phillipevans9414 There's one at a wreckers near me at the moment, white, looks not bad body wise. $299 for the bare body shell. Postage could be a killer though!
@@SuperFIFTHGEAR I imagine it's probably not viable from a cost perspective. In the past ive been quoted between $2000 to $3000 to ship a complete car plus taxes and duties in the UK. Probably could ship the rear arch sections and any other panel cuts needed for a more reasonable amount.
I used to drive a Tercel back in 1988! Brilliant car, they're fantastic to drive & tough as old boots. I'll look forward to seeing you get this back on the road sometime next year ;-)
I always loved the look of these, especially that quirky rear and 3/4 of the car. I used to have a tiny toy of this as a kid ( Matchbox or Majorette ) in a metallic blue and it was my favourite toy. I've always had a fascination with the Tercel ever since
These Toyotas were built incredible solid! Even after 30, 40 years the original switches and electric parts work well; no issues on motors and transmissions. The plastics inside also have been solid as a rock, so you got the best value for your money.
8:20 Sometimes a great skill to posess is the skill to know who to trust with a job. Pick your welder well. And maybe let them do the job while you're down under ;). 8:43 Drive it there off-camera and make up an alibi of how it got there, of course. 9:34 See.... Love the not-blue-but-brown-with-even-browner-bits-Tercel!
Yeah, tempting as it is, driving a car without an MOT (and therefore, presumably, no tax or insurance) on a public road is a very bad idea. ANPR is *everywhere* now, and a chance encounter with a police car would not only mean losing the car but also very likely your licence. It's just not worth it - the police absolutely *love* easy targets like that.
Styling maybe inspired by the AMC Pacer and so much interior brownness to complement the beige and oxidized externals. . Sadly MoT examiners these days take a dim view of structural repairs with carbon arc brazing attachments, so really Ian you need MIG or an inverter welder and have a go at cracking your welding phobia. I used to cut up old washing machines for new metal as a penniless student keeping my crumbling Peugeot 304 MoT'd.
but the welding up side down, on thin material, shaping all the panels, preparing, cutting. thats hard, pressing the button on the mig is the easy part, ive welded a couple of my own cars, never again
congratulations on your new aquisition ian hubnut, ill be looking forward to progress episodes. looking forward to your upcoming nz adventures too. best wishes this week as you prepare...
I buy cheap classic cars aswell and let me tell you the best tool I ever purchased other then tea making equipment was a welder. there is no tool that will save you more money I promise you. If you regret buying it ill come weld the entire car free for you! Watch some UA-cam tutorials on welding. Practice on some old sheet steel and you will get the hang of it in no time. Good luck mate!
I learned to drive in a Toyota Tercel back in 1987, albeit the FWD hatchback. It actually drove quite well considering it was a properly knackered driving school car that was only a couple of years old at the time. I used to laugh as the driving instructor blasted away after the lesson leaving a plume of smoke in his wake :D
If you coat the rust with double-boiled linseed oil that will stop it spreading further. Especially good for the chassis. But it has to be double-boiled, very important. In France they sell this as Rustol-Owatrol but that's the main ingredient.
Man if I lived close to you I'd happy do the welding for free. Just to work on that. As a kid I thought these were so cool. It has a high curiosity value for sure. if you do go for it I don't usually donate at all but I want to see that saved. actually I am going to hunt bits see what I can find.
Ooh, I am very much a fan; quirky Japanese cars are what I live for (particularly kei cars). Side note that this is the first 80's Tercel I've seen with a rev counter xD!
I am watching from the United States. I commuted to work with a coworker that owned one of these. Every time we entered the highway we had to turn off the A/C and flog it relentlessly. Needed constant shifting to deal with slight inclines and still maintain the speed limit. Rusted badly within a few years from new also.
There is 4 of these Tercel wagons rotting away in a yard along with a Vauxhall pa cresta a couple of streets away from my house been there for as long as I can remember at least for the last twenty years or more a real shame wish someone would resurrect them
Oh no, tears in my eyes... I had this one as a hatchback. What a rare and reliable car she was. Until a granny with her Corolla crashed in my beloved 1983 Toyota Tercel AL 20. It's good to see, that some of them survived...
That is magnificent and has the best seat fabric I think I've ever seen. Although a little surprised/impressed that it appears to share a bonnet release handle with my 2010 Lexus!
@@alphatrion100 my D plate Japan-built Bluebird would disagree. Also had a '86 Mazda 626 with not a little bit of rust, but my father killed it by letting it run with no coolant...
Love how you stuck the invacar into reverse by accident, reminds me of one my first driving experiences just after I passed my test. I'd learn to drive in friends car and then went out and brought a car, I was so keen to own a car I didn't bother with a test drive all I knew was it had four fully inflated tyres an MOT and most importantly back in the day a FM stereo radio. What I didn't check was that the reverse gear was set to where first gear was in the car I'd learn to drive in. So after parting with £400 I proudly got into my new car and reversed into a wall, thankfully no great damaged done but a valuable lesson learned.
I did something similar. Bought my 1st car, a Mk2 Ford Escort estate back in 1988 before I had even passed my test. It was parked in front of another car in the driveway. One day I drove it forward along the driveway a bit, then reversed it back into it's parking space. But I forgot the car was still in gear when I took my foot off the clutch pedal, and the car lurched backwards into the car behind! Fortunately my dad's Alfa Romeo suffered no damage to it's sturdy chrome bumper. However my Ford gained a big dent in the back bumper. So 1st job when I passed my test was a trip to the breakers for a replacement one!
My calendar, mug and stickers arrived in Hong Kong today - only ordered them 6 days ago ... handed straight to wife for Christmas wrapping ... good times 👍
Meeeeeeaaaaaaoooooowwwwww!!!!!! Yeah, I know, I'm pussin' things a bit here! But I have a feline that someone' going to have the purrrrrrrrrfect comeback!
@@tridaks Yeah that's also true if it's a rare car just remember that it you can't do the repairs yourself you are unlikely to ever recoup your costs should you need to,not all rare cars are worth a lot.
Don't quite know what to say, your negotiation skills are amazing, Ian. There's no way I thought they would pay you £300 to take that Tercel away for them. Amazing. Good deal, that man!
Don't think any of us saw that coming! I reckon it's going to be an exciting project! Especially if you find a body shop that will let you film their work.....
Cool car. Full approval given! Hello from New Zealand. We have similar looking cars here called Caribs but they are getting more and more valuable and out of reach. Great fun with a 4A-GE in them.
Nice cool old 80's estate, and definitely an 80's colour, but the 4wd will definitely come in handy on wintery roads, and should lug plenty of merch too. Definitely definitely worth saving.
Oh how I can relate to a totally impractical, unnecessary purchase.... Top marks to you Mr HubNut for attempting to save this delightful oddity. I love the rock n roll gauges for the 4wd and in fact the whole car is awesome! Well done Sir and good luck with it!
I remember seeing them back in the mid 90s, usually covered in rust....There was one near where I lived in London, dark blue, and by heck it was rust filled in about 1994......A miracle the car still exists that you have there Ian......My dad had a 1982 Toyota Cressida Y reg, and that was a rust bucket when he got rid of it in 1997 after having it for 13 years....Mechanically it was solid as a rock, but like all Japanese cars of the early '80s, the cheap, thin metal that was used, wasn't suited to the UK weather.
Working for Toyota Canada in the late 80's I was able to visit their assembly plants in Japan. On a single line they built 2wd,4wd, 2 door,4 door, and estate Corollas. I was shocked and very impressed with their flexibility. Kaizen baby! Do it Mr H
I drove one of these when they were new in 1983, the place I was working for needed me to pick up a computer , the car had done less than 1000 miles ! . I was 19 and it was a hell of a buzz, as I only had a Minivan ( a real Mini Van, not a Toyota Previa or whatever they call a Minivan now) . Loved the pitch and roll dials - searched Halfords and everywhere to get some for my Minivan ..
Best of luck with the tercel project Ian. ..... I had a lovely tercel 4wd on a D plate in a lovely metallic blue drove as sweet as a nut. .... mine had the electric tilt/slide sunroof but keep fit windey windows which confused me a little. ... the little 1482 lump performed very well quite lively and returned over 40 mpg loved it to bits
I'd noticed that Tercel standing there the last few years. I had a 2WD hatch some years back - it had been owned by a doctor so fully serviced - it was cleaner under the bonnet than inside as he was a heavy smoker! My first Jap car - amazing quality. Sadly, some b drove into the back of it
What a glorious thing. There's something magnificent about an old beige Toyota interior - puts me in mind of the Carina II my granddad had. Loved it, sadly the rot was terminal. A mighty beast!
How brilliant. I know it is in a terrible state but so worth saving if you can raise the money. You never see these any more and what a versatile car. Low range gear, excellent. Love the beige interior as much as blue velour. Cheers.
Such a great car...I think it would be really cool to crowd fund a tasteful restoration and ask Fuzz Townsend and his guys to do it... What a dream team that would be - Hubnut and Fuzz :-) Imagine what great vids that would make :-)
I remember a white one of these that was owned by a man called Francis. He was known as 'The Mushroom Man' as he always sold wild mushrooms. He used to drive quite literally over East Devon picking them in a Tercel.
I’ve had two friends who owned Tercel’s like this one (one 4wd, and one front wheel drive) Both of them were as rusty as this one! But here in Wisconsin nobody would bat an eye at them, because they ALL looked like this in about 6 years... Ha ha, neither of them had the steering wheel on that side, though!😁
At 6.30 into the video the look on your face says "I am having that car again all my better judgement " we have all been there .looks like a great project
"I have not got any welding skills". Yeah, but I assure you your audience want to see you try. "I don't think I'm cut out for welding"; that's why I'm voting 'Yes', how about the rest of the audience?. (Don't make me start a petition)
David Simons agreed! I don’t think you can do old cars on a budget without some welding skills. I’ve been inspired by Soup’s channel to learn.
@@gianpaologliori3604 So that's a Yes from you
@@gianpaologliori3604 - HubNut's right - employ the skills of someone who knows what they're doing, otherwise you can do more harm than good.
Agreed. You can learn anything. Show us!
Agreed.You will save money in the long term.
So they only gave you £300? I'd have held my ground for at least 4-figures to take that off their hands!!
It did occur to me that £300 was about £350 too much.
i think they had a nerve , surely it was worth nothing without m o t ?
@Steve Terry Yep a 1980's Toyota can only die in 2 ways.
1 car crasch
2 Tin worm .
Mechanicly they are super reliable
My neighboor ownes a 1982 J40 Diesel Landcruiser
The most used tools he has to use is the welding and plasma torch
He learned welding and sheetmetal fabrication on that car.
@Steve Terry Pre 50's.60's cars didn't rust so much as 70's early 80's cars.
They wanted to produce cheaper and lighter cars with less material.
The steel of those days was of a lower grade quality with more inpurities like copper. In wet/salty climates those inpurities gave an electrolitic effect and increased rusting.
Technical advancements and laws in safety cars made them use higher grade and stronger steel.
Higher strength steel rust even way more then normal steel so they had to be electrolytic zinc plated.
Sadly we lost alot of very beatifull designed cars from all over Europe to the tinworm.
Imagine a dipped and zinc plated jaguar Mark 2 shell with a underneath a technical modern Lexus.
@@obelic71 The likes of Vauxhall elevated rust maggots to King of the Road status by leaving their car and van bodies outdoors in British weather, sometimes for many weeks on end, before applying the outer coats of paint. Some Vauxhall cars would fail their first MOT Test because of corrosion. I'm not joking or exaggerating; it happened to a work colleague who bought a brand new Viva. Rust was showing within 6 months, and those rust maggots were voracious.
My neighbor had a little car like that. The 4WD Tercel, which he called the Turtle because it was slow but could go anywhere and never gave up.
Autos with 4Wd were so underpowered even for the era. No much for differentials ether, so the tires would scrub considerably in parkades
Being a 35 year old Toyota, of course everything still works! Amazing quality.
My nan is a good welder,she welds the crusts on to her pies.
Big Chopper 😂
Did she supply Two Ton Ted from Teddington ?
@@tonypate9174 No,his sister,two ton Tessie,CORRR
Class🤣
That's an old Les Dawson joke (and none the worse for it ;-) )
When you get back from New Zealand just go out and find a nice girl, who happens to be welder, and move in with her.
Max Goodman 🤣😂🤣😂 problem solved!
I don’t think Ms. Hubnut will approve of that!
HubNut + Welderness + Rotted car = Triangle of Doom
@@CreRay You are either way behind on the news or you know something the rest of us don't.
Yes, Mrs HubNut is no more. Though we are still friends, and she still looks after the shop. Very busy right now in fact!
"Difficult to put a value on it". Not really, I got to £20 and thought I was being generous but then I saw your face, you were like a kid on Xmas morning, lovely it's why I watch.
But never ever go to a casino :)
Stephen G 😂
200 in steel scrap these dsys
@@jusb1066 by the time the wide boys have whinged about disposal of the tyres and moaned about the costs of safely getting rid of all the fluids good luck getting your £200.
Id consider it a running gear part swap for Foxanne. Just imagine a 4wd Fox.....
This is pure Hubnut. Its a shed, and I love it.
Nearly 50k subscribers Ian! Looking forward to the video you made a few weeks ago for it
"By heck is this thing crispy underneath"
Genuinely hilarious description.
Has Hubnut even looked undernath?? We need to see footage or pictures.
For 35 years, I've pronounced that Ter-sell.! each to his own I suppose.
me too !! ;-)
Tercel or tersell sound the same to me 🤔
This one is Tear-and Sell
I definitely remember when this car was advertised in the US they pronounced it "ter-SELL". I had a friend who owned one, he pronounced it "ter-SELL", not "TER-sul". Perhaps the pronunciation difference was a regional thing.
I love the sheer happiness at the end. So much beige!!
Wow! That really is a rare sight to behold - will be great to save it, really do not see many at all anymore! Good luck from the LMM team!
Been in love with these since that red one appeared on breaking bad. A damn cool car if you can get the rot sorted, good luck!
Hey Ian, if I managed to teach myself to use a cheap MIG welder (24 years ago at a local night school class) then I'm sure you can too, save yourself oodles of money. As Mrs Doyle said on Father Ted---"Gwaaan, gwaaan, gwaaan, gwaaan,". You certainly show splendid videos young man, thanks for sharing from that old Yorkshire "Geezer" in Ireland
Sir Hub: "let's take this for a drive ey!"
*wheel falls off*
Sir Hub: "ah... That is an issue..."
@Steve Terry And the bits that the rust cannot hold together any longer.
You absolute mad man!
If it’s rear arches you need you can try your luck finding one in an Australian breakers yard and break out the angle grinder.
The design inside and out reminds me very much of the Honda Civic Shuttle B reg that my father owned back in the 1980s. It had acres of light blue plastic inside 😀
Civic shuttle! There's the car this reminded me of, couldn't remember what it was.
it also have a 6-speed, too haha
I look forward to seeing that project Ian. Have a great trip to down under. 😀
TERCEL ! I love those so very much. I love the off-centre ATM-esque rear boot hatch bucket that houses the number plate. A shame that it's rather crusty along the edges. Extra points for the beigeness.
Got to love you Hubnut! You're away on a big adventure to NZ next week yet you're picking up a new project for later. What a legend!
Good news! You will be able to find any parts you want for it in New Zealand. Both imported to NZ new and also many thousands brought in as grey imports.
@gilburton oddly, it's cheaper to ship an entire car than it is parts from nz.
Did anyone else call the Invacar a Spaz Chariot back in the day ? Not very PC today but the 70’s were not very PC !
There was a young disabled lad on our estate called Colin who drove one round like a rally driver and he put V8 stickers on it. Fun times !
I have not seen one of those in a long time, I can't wait to see it fixed up. As it stands the AWD Tercel (aka Sprinter Carib) may not be that valuable, but you are saving a car that frankly there probably only a few left. Oh the reason its called a Sprinter Carib is because if it was sold as a Tercel then it would be sold through the same dealers as the Corolla and as a Sprinter Carib it can be sold through the up market Sprinter dealers, back then Toyota sold their vehicles through various stores (dealers).
Both the Tercel and Sprinter were exclusive to Toyota Vista dealers (later Netz), so not sure your story adds up. Toyota Corolla dealers got the "Corolla II" instead of the Tercel, basically the same thing with a different grille (no Carib equivalent though). And Toyopet dealers got the Corsa, another Tercel derivative (also why the Opel Corsa was called the Opel Vita in Japan).
For whatever reason, European Tercels like Ian's have the Corolla II grilles...
Ian - I honestly didn't think you could get any more HubNutty, but you hit it out of the park! Well done, fella!
On lpg too.. Woo hooo in primary school I was fascinated by them although I didn't know anything about them. Had a matchbox toy version. Love the central display..
Course it all works its a toyota.. Haha
My dad had a 1983 Tercel 4WD Estate in the early 90s. We went to France in it when I was little. It was scrapped in the end cos of knackered piston rings, due likely with my Dad's rather cavalier attitude towards servicing. It was also riddled with rust when it was only about eight years old.
Still remember how impressed I was by the EL and inclinometer even as a bairn!
I would encourage you to at least try with this car. There weren't even that many on the road in the 1980s.
Heroes in a half-shell, Tercel power!
There is only about half a shell there right enough!
😂
Kids from the 90s will get that one.
Fantastic!!! Comments like yours make the Hubsters videos even more enjoyable👍👍👍
Good news, there are a lot of rusty Tercels in NZ too!
You must have been the only customer for that 30 year old shed in Wales.
My aunt had one of these back in the 1980s. She worked as a midwife in the rural county Sogn og Fjordane in western Norway (today it's the northern part of Vestland county). She had the first mobile telephone I saw in real life, an NMT unit with a handset, in that car.
Really good motors in their day 100% reliable and a good workhorse.
When you get back from down under Ian i really hope you can save it from being scrapped or scavenged for parts as their are so few of these 80s and early 90s classics left.
Great video as usual.
My mate's parents had one of these from new and we used to borrow it all the time. I thought it was great with all the 'gadgets' and I even loved the styling (at the time). The main problem with the Tercel is you could hear it rot. I'm not sure what they were made from but these cars just dissolved away before your eyes. It's a great shame as this could and should have been one of the best cars of that era.
That's fantastic Ian! I haven't seen one of these beauties for years
Hi Ian,@6.28 you were completely hypnotised/in love with the beige Godess...iv seen that look before,no pain no gain,well done sir,go for it!
Still can find these occasionally in breakers yards in OZ, even sometimes with rust free body shells! Might need to pay for some excess baggage on the way back!
I was thinking the exact same thing - even looked on Gumtree (there's three for sale there now, all waaaaaaaaay better condition (no rust) starting at $1400 (it'll cost Ian more than that to get the rust fixed on his). Sorry to say, I think his Nut has finally fallen off his Hub.
@@phillipevans9414 There's one at a wreckers near me at the moment, white, looks not bad body wise. $299 for the bare body shell. Postage could be a killer though!
@@andrewhofler I wonder how much it would cost to get it to the UK vs restoring what he has. I doubt there would be that much in it.
@@SuperFIFTHGEAR I imagine it's probably not viable from a cost perspective. In the past ive been quoted between $2000 to $3000 to ship a complete car plus taxes and duties in the UK. Probably could ship the rear arch sections and any other panel cuts needed for a more reasonable amount.
I used to drive a Tercel back in 1988! Brilliant car, they're fantastic to drive & tough as old boots. I'll look forward to seeing you get this back on the road sometime next year ;-)
My fav Toyota. I owend briefly a 1985 . ( lived a while in Swiss....lots of snow). Pitty they've nearly extinguished.
Time to learn...body work 😋
I always loved the look of these, especially that quirky rear and 3/4 of the car. I used to have a tiny toy of this as a kid ( Matchbox or Majorette ) in a metallic blue and it was my favourite toy. I've always had a fascination with the Tercel ever since
Only 14 of these taxed and on the road apparently
I have one not on the road yet but will be.
These Toyotas were built incredible solid! Even after 30, 40 years the original switches and electric parts work well; no issues on motors and transmissions. The plastics inside also have been solid as a rock, so you got the best value for your money.
8:20 Sometimes a great skill to posess is the skill to know who to trust with a job. Pick your welder well. And maybe let them do the job while you're down under ;).
8:43 Drive it there off-camera and make up an alibi of how it got there, of course.
9:34 See....
Love the not-blue-but-brown-with-even-browner-bits-Tercel!
Yeah, tempting as it is, driving a car without an MOT (and therefore, presumably, no tax or insurance) on a public road is a very bad idea. ANPR is *everywhere* now, and a chance encounter with a police car would not only mean losing the car but also very likely your licence. It's just not worth it - the police absolutely *love* easy targets like that.
When HubNut was sat in TWC with that glazed look we all new there was going to be one outcome a new project. Good luck sir.
did you say ' a state' or 'estate' mind you saying that either would be true.....
If I had just bought that, I would be so excited, I'm afraid I would have to cancel my forthcoming trip to New Zealand, wonderful
Styling maybe inspired by the AMC Pacer and so much interior brownness to complement the beige and oxidized externals.
. Sadly MoT examiners these days take a dim view of structural repairs with carbon arc brazing attachments, so really Ian you need MIG or an inverter welder and have a go at cracking your welding phobia. I used to cut up old washing machines for new metal as a penniless student keeping my crumbling Peugeot 304 MoT'd.
My ax had several patches made from old filling cabinets.
Wow! Thats a lot of work.
Good luck Ian, and enjoy your trip.
Time to learn how to MIG weld. It's not actually that difficult, especially if you have a reasonable welder and ArgonShield gas.
ummm. What???
but the welding up side down, on thin material, shaping all the panels, preparing, cutting. thats hard, pressing the button on the mig is the easy part, ive welded a couple of my own cars, never again
congratulations on your new aquisition ian hubnut, ill be looking forward to progress episodes. looking forward to your upcoming nz adventures too. best wishes this week as you prepare...
I buy cheap classic cars aswell and let me tell you the best tool I ever purchased other then tea making equipment was a welder. there is no tool that will save you more money I promise you. If you regret buying it ill come weld the entire car free for you! Watch some UA-cam tutorials on welding. Practice on some old sheet steel and you will get the hang of it in no time. Good luck mate!
Proper bloke. If you do I'll contribute some cash if a crowd funding page. I'd imagine there's not many, if any of these left.
I learned to drive in a Toyota Tercel back in 1987, albeit the FWD hatchback. It actually drove quite well considering it was a properly knackered driving school car that was only a couple of years old at the time. I used to laugh as the driving instructor blasted away after the lesson leaving a plume of smoke in his wake :D
Free take it off their hands - 1st job straighten steering wheel
If you coat the rust with double-boiled linseed oil that will stop it spreading further. Especially good for the chassis. But it has to be double-boiled, very important.
In France they sell this as Rustol-Owatrol but that's the main ingredient.
Man if I lived close to you I'd happy do the welding for free. Just to work on that. As a kid I thought these were so cool.
It has a high curiosity value for sure.
if you do go for it I don't usually donate at all but I want to see that saved.
actually I am going to hunt bits see what I can find.
Ooh, I am very much a fan; quirky Japanese cars are what I live for (particularly kei cars). Side note that this is the first 80's Tercel I've seen with a rev counter xD!
I thought those had all gone havent seen one for years
Just seen one on the A525 in St Asaph walking my dog!
@@phillipjones3439 even more unusual if it was walking your dog! 😂
@@superseven220 Ha! I think I asked for that! Thanks Peter.
@@phillipjones3439 sorry I couldn't resist!
I am watching from the United States.
I commuted to work with a coworker that owned one of these.
Every time we entered the highway we had to turn off the A/C and flog it relentlessly.
Needed constant shifting to deal with slight inclines and still maintain the speed limit.
Rusted badly within a few years from new also.
They should pay you 300 quid to take that away... I have to admit, they got the best deal there!
There is 4 of these Tercel wagons rotting away in a yard along with a Vauxhall pa cresta a couple of streets away from my house been there for as long as I can remember at least for the last twenty years or more a real shame wish someone would resurrect them
On my goodness! Another new car 😂
Oh no, tears in my eyes... I had this one as a hatchback. What a rare and reliable car she was. Until a granny with her Corolla crashed in my beloved 1983 Toyota Tercel AL 20. It's good to see, that some of them survived...
The rust looks like a result of being used to tow boats - backing the car into the sea......?
That is magnificent and has the best seat fabric I think I've ever seen. Although a little surprised/impressed that it appears to share a bonnet release handle with my 2010 Lexus!
Them Tercels always rotted like crazy for some reason
Japanese in the 80's
@@alphatrion100 in particular the Tercels, corolla and Carina's didn't rot that much, Datsuns were rotters
Even the cigar lighters had rust.
@@alphatrion100 my D plate Japan-built Bluebird would disagree. Also had a '86 Mazda 626 with not a little bit of rust, but my father killed it by letting it run with no coolant...
@@HakanKoseoglu my dad had a 1985 nissan cherry. It went to the scrapheap in 1993 because of rust. 8 years old.
Love how you stuck the invacar into reverse by accident, reminds me of one my first driving experiences just after I passed my test. I'd learn to drive in friends car and then went out and brought a car, I was so keen to own a car I didn't bother with a test drive all I knew was it had four fully inflated tyres an MOT and most importantly back in the day a FM stereo radio. What I didn't check was that the reverse gear was set to where first gear was in the car I'd learn to drive in. So after parting with £400 I proudly got into my new car and reversed into a wall, thankfully no great damaged done but a valuable lesson learned.
I did something similar. Bought my 1st car, a Mk2 Ford Escort estate back in 1988 before I had even passed my test. It was parked in front of another car in the driveway. One day I drove it forward along the driveway a bit, then reversed it back into it's parking space. But I forgot the car was still in gear when I took my foot off the clutch pedal, and the car lurched backwards into the car behind! Fortunately my dad's Alfa Romeo suffered no damage to it's sturdy chrome bumper. However my Ford gained a big dent in the back bumper. So 1st job when I passed my test was a trip to the breakers for a replacement one!
When you get back, the only tools you'll need are a dustpan and brush. £300? Oh dear, oh dear!
LMFAO
300 is cheap 1 week work
@@Luckyjo21 How many week work to get an MOT on it?
@@deadmeat6563 well 300 for a rare car is a good deal whatever way it is, parts alone would be that
My calendar, mug and stickers arrived in Hong Kong today - only ordered them 6 days ago ... handed straight to wife for Christmas wrapping ... good times 👍
Once again disappointed after misreading "car" as "cat".
Meeeeeeaaaaaaoooooowwwwww!!!!!! Yeah, I know, I'm pussin' things a bit here! But I have a feline that someone' going to have the purrrrrrrrrfect comeback!
That would be even worse timing than a new car :D.
Should have gone to Specsavers ;p
@@colinp2238 Stop parroting advertising slogans.
@@patrickl2195 Will we still see George after Hubnut changes location?
Had 2 of those years ago if I could find a decent one now I'd snap it up great cars and very versatile.
I have found over the years.....it's much cheaper to buy a decent car and pay more up front than buy a junk car and sink $$$$$ into it .
Not as much fun though...
100% true.
And that's fine if there are plenty to choose from, but in this case......................
@@tridaks Yeah that's also true if it's a rare car just remember that it you can't do the repairs yourself you are unlikely to ever recoup your costs should you need to,not all rare cars are worth a lot.
Wow! What a find! Uber rare now. My mum had a Tercel SR 3dr nearly new in 1985. Great car!
Don't quite know what to say, your negotiation skills are amazing, Ian. There's no way I thought they would pay you £300 to take that Tercel away for them. Amazing. Good deal, that man!
Have a nice time in New Zealand. Iain
Look forward to seeing you back and build that new project.
Don't think any of us saw that coming! I reckon it's going to be an exciting project! Especially if you find a body shop that will let you film their work.....
Cool car. Full approval given!
Hello from New Zealand.
We have similar looking cars here called Caribs but they are getting more and more valuable and out of reach. Great fun with a 4A-GE in them.
Nice cool old 80's estate, and definitely an 80's colour, but the 4wd will definitely come in handy on wintery roads, and should lug plenty of merch too. Definitely definitely worth saving.
I didn’t know you were going to get another new car before NZ!! Good luck with it!
Nor did I!
Glorious cloth interior! Also it is so practical - that load area!!
Not seen one of these for years. Looks very cool. Looking forward to how it looks in the future
Brilliant! This is absolutely the best car since my favourite, the Favorit. I’m really looking forward to seeing this repair series.
Oh how I can relate to a totally impractical, unnecessary purchase.... Top marks to you Mr HubNut for attempting to save this delightful oddity. I love the rock n roll gauges for the 4wd and in fact the whole car is awesome! Well done Sir and good luck with it!
I remember seeing them back in the mid 90s, usually covered in rust....There was one near where I lived in London, dark blue, and by heck it was rust filled in about 1994......A miracle the car still exists that you have there Ian......My dad had a 1982 Toyota Cressida Y reg, and that was a rust bucket when he got rid of it in 1997 after having it for 13 years....Mechanically it was solid as a rock, but like all Japanese cars of the early '80s, the cheap, thin metal that was used, wasn't suited to the UK weather.
Working for Toyota Canada in the late 80's I was able to visit their assembly plants in Japan. On a single line they built 2wd,4wd, 2 door,4 door, and estate Corollas. I was shocked and very impressed with their flexibility. Kaizen baby! Do it Mr H
Possibly your coolest car yet!
I'm looking forward to seeing this project 👍
I drove one of these when they were new in 1983, the place I was working for needed me to pick up a computer , the car had done less than 1000 miles ! . I was 19 and it was a hell of a buzz, as I only had a Minivan ( a real Mini Van, not a Toyota Previa or whatever they call a Minivan now) . Loved the pitch and roll dials - searched Halfords and everywhere to get some for my Minivan ..
Best of luck with the tercel project Ian. ..... I had a lovely tercel 4wd on a D plate in a lovely metallic blue drove as sweet as a nut. .... mine had the electric tilt/slide sunroof but keep fit windey windows which confused me a little. ... the little 1482 lump performed very well quite lively and returned over 40 mpg loved it to bits
I'd noticed that Tercel standing there the last few years. I had a 2WD hatch some years back - it had been owned by a doctor so fully serviced - it was cleaner under the bonnet than inside as he was a heavy smoker!
My first Jap car - amazing quality. Sadly, some b drove into the back of it
What a glorious thing. There's something magnificent about an old beige Toyota interior - puts me in mind of the Carina II my granddad had. Loved it, sadly the rot was terminal.
A mighty beast!
I remember one of my mates dad's had one of these around 1990 when I was 10 and I was fascinated by the dials in the middle of the dash!
Lovely 4x4 estate I believe will be your favourite car. Reminded me my Subaru Xt 1.8 years ago... good forgotten cars.
I love the enthusiasm you have for beige :) it's got me admitting to myself that I can enjoy it too...
How brilliant. I know it is in a terrible state but so worth saving if you can raise the money. You never see these any more and what a versatile car. Low range gear, excellent. Love the beige interior as much as blue velour. Cheers.
Such a great car...I think it would be really cool to crowd fund a tasteful restoration and ask Fuzz Townsend and his guys to do it... What a dream team that would be - Hubnut and Fuzz :-) Imagine what great vids that would make :-)
I remember a white one of these that was owned by a man called Francis. He was known as 'The Mushroom Man' as he always sold wild mushrooms. He used to drive quite literally over East Devon picking them in a Tercel.
I’ve had two friends who owned Tercel’s like this one (one 4wd, and one front wheel drive) Both of them were as rusty as this one! But here in Wisconsin nobody would bat an eye at them, because they ALL looked like this in about 6 years...
Ha ha, neither of them had the steering wheel on that side, though!😁
Love these things and the 4wd is a pretty rare find, all for this project
Blimey! Mr HubNut is so nervous about his trip, he's gone and ticked an item off his bucket list!
At 6.30 into the video the look on your face says "I am having that car again all my better judgement " we have all been there .looks like a great project
Toyota Tercel! What an amazing car, happy memories. Had two of these in the nineties, one on the road and one for spares.
Think mini Range Rover...