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This would be pretty much the ideal winter daily for me, it's for sale fairly locally so I'll give them a call soon. Manual too, which should help on the economy (my old 2.2 estate wasn't that bad).
Think it's been for sale for a while, so be interesting to see if that price will come down a bit.
The second generation of the Toyota Camry was built from 1986 until 1991. This is a model with a 2.0 litre 16-valve engine and 121 PS.
Shame this photo came out a bit blurry, my camera seemed to suffer in the dingy light today.
Quite a busy-looking back end on these, and twin rear wipers!, but I'd happily have one :-)
The first generation of Toyota’s Solara was marketed during model years 1999-2003 as a 2-door Camry. For the second generation Solara of 2004-2008 it was marketed without the Camry tag. Then for various reasons there was no 3rd generation.
The license plate has been altered for privacy.
As mentioned recently, I've bought this old thing back again. I owned it from 2006-08, it remains probably the best all-round car I've ever owned. I sold it cheaply when various issues were due for the forthcoming MoT test, my friend then used it for a bit before stashing it away. He needed to have a clear-out, and I thought it would be useful for me given it has basically the same engine and 'box as my latest Camry.
Also, it looks at home sat on my driveway! Gotta love those twin rear wipers.
I found an excuse to drive it up the track and back on Saturday, it still goes well and the ride is a revelation after the Camry Sport and also our Primera P11.
I want to stockpile a few examples of Camry so I can keep one or two running over the next few years. Expensive/unobtainable parts will see many coming off the road soon, I fear.
How odd, and disturbing. To 'millennials', THIS is 'an old car'! Now, to me, an 'old car' can't be anything newer than 1965!!!!
LH front brake caliper this time, as the one on the estate doesn't seem to be releasing fully.
I had tried to get a new one but it didn't work out, and the garage seem happy with the condition of this one.
The wheeltrims signify this is the earlier model with 14" wheels, just like my accident-damaged J-reg saloon at home.
Seeing this has reminded me how nice the 2.2 models are to drive, so I must starting making an effort to get the estate back on the road before winter sets in.
The dirt is my doing, difficult to avoid living in a rural area at the tail-end of the sugarbeet harvesting season. The twin wipers do a reasonable job of keeping the back window clean (though I need to adjust the washer jet and the springs on the wiper arms aren't really strong enough). For various reasons I had to swap the V6 wheels onto it last weekend, giving me an almost-new set of Toyo tyres. It continues to drive very nicely.
A shame then about the dent it gained :-( Happened in a car park when I was out of the car, but luckily the driver did leave a note and I've been in touch so hopefully it will be resolved without any problem. I have a spare door on my donor estate, it'll just need painting. I can see that not being a terribly good match, the original paint is a dark metallic green which flips to purple in sunlight. I'll be keeping it away from the insurers, I suspect they'd write it off...
Ignoring the Citroen in front of me, the sight of something older and a bit awkward-looking caught my eye.
Couldn't miss this one coming into the car park, with a hole in the exhaust it was a little loud...
Had a quick chat with the owner, who was somewhat younger than expected. He'd inherited it from his grandad, who had owned it from new, and in fairness did seem to be sorting out some things on it so hopefully it's got a bit more time left. Classic champagne colour too. I did leave him my number :-)
My next-gen V6 in the background, by way of contrast.
It's a RHD car, but certainly not a style of registration plate I recognise. Anyone have a suggestion? As this is another from my batch of press launch photos it may be some sort of manufacturer/trade plate?
Purchased photo, copyright unknown.
Not often I see two Camry's near one another but to see two Camry's only a facelift apart doesn't happen.
Rear arches had received a bit of attention both sides, but otherwise it didn't look too bad.
Rear plate and dealer sticker showed it had been sold new by Turner's down in Bury St Edmunds, same place my old Camry Sport came from.
At this scenic point in my journey back to Norfolk I will cut the story short to say it got me home without any drama whatsoever. Given what could have happened, not least in buying an old car unseen let alone a damaged one, I was very pleased (and relieved).
The damage certainly doesn’t seem to have affected anything structural or mechanical, it drove straight as a die and with a very, very solid feel (arguably less rattles than my 1997 Camry). The engine ran beautifully, slightly rortier than in the later car (maybe that has more soundproofing?) and with a very ‘free’ feel to it. Once I’d got the tyre pressures up to what they should be the ride, handling and braking was exactly as I’d expect, very composed and giving the confidence to hustle the car along nicely. I deliberately chose a cross-country route through The Cotswolds to investigate this. Clutch bites quite high with a soft feel, just like the others I’ve had, and the gearchange is slick. Cruised very nicely on the dual-carriageways nearer home.
In summary well worth the effort. I’m now in something of a dilemma, as once sorted it’ll be perfectly good enough to use every day. But I already have one car to do that with, plus the old Datsun. My ultimate aim is to have a Camry V6 of some sort, but that would be too thirsty for use all year round. And I like the later Sport.
I think the answer is sell the Sport, keep this new Camry and the Datsun and buy a V6, preferably an estate so it does something different to the others. Or buy one of the rare V6 Sports, a couple of which have just come up for sale...
From the Taxis Of The World Premier Portfolio sets briefly available at Home Bargains. A brief but bountiful opportunity in grabbing modern licensed Welly in a retail environment dominated by crappy HTI Teamsterz generics. Mint and boxed.
I put this V6 back on the road last month, after the estate got written-off. I had actually MoTed it as long ago as October, knowing it would be handy as a spare car, but hadn't got round to insurance and tax. It's handy to have something I can use as a back-up and as a change to the Avensis daily driver - the Laurel is also taxed but I don't like using it much during winter.
The poor old thing had sat in the corner of the drive since the trackday last April and I thought it deserved a bit of a spruce-up.
Owned by me 2006-2008. I liked it a lot, had done nearly 200k miles by the time I sold it. Might be buying it back again soon, as spares for my latest one...
A page from the Japanese market brochure for the Toyota Camry. It looks like the ones we had in the west, but I don't think we got any with All Wheel Drive or Twin Cam engines.
Don't know what the collective term is, that'll do. The later Sport missing from this shot, but these are all my third-gen models lined-up. I don't usually park anything out on the track, but the scaffolding on the house plus materials and a skip on the drive has meant I've needed a bit of extra parking space...
From L-R: V6 saloon, on the road but ideally needing one or two things sorting; 2.2 estate which is on the road and doing a great job after I bought it last month; 2.2 estate for spares; 2.2 saloon which was getting repaired but might now become a trackday project.