Looking for a 88 or 89 GT-S for sale - Toyota Nation Forum : Toyota Car and Truck Forums

jalvinj · 09-16-2002, 05:25 PM

I am very interested in getting a 88 or 89 Corolla GT-S. I have been looking for the right one for quite some time. If anyone would be able to help me out a little and just e-mail me with any information about where one might be available, I would be more than happy. And I don't care where it's located.

project trueno · 09-16-2002, 05:45 PM

autotrader.ca

buysellzone.com

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And I don't care where it's located.

question is, where are YOU located?

jalvinj · 09-16-2002, 05:46 PM

I am in idaho

4Aaron GE · 09-16-2002, 06:44 PM

....ok. those links would probably be useless to you then. (Unless you plan on coming up to buy a car) Scour the newspapers. Or just start leaving notes on peoples windshields. Surely there's some sort of local publication for buying used cars.

jalvinj · 09-16-2002, 06:48 PM

problem is, nobody around here has one. Not the one I want...
I want the ae92, I've seriously been looking for over a year and a half.

4Aaron GE · 09-16-2002, 07:16 PM

Hm... I guess this would be the point at which you break out the yellow pages and call every used car dealer in your area. :o

jalvinj · 09-16-2002, 07:20 PM

ok, there is a reason I'm looking online. I have looked in the area, and then some for quite some time. Nobody in there area owns one of these vehicles. The only person to EVER owned one in the area was my friend who moved to california.

So I am asking for help to look for one that is not in this area. I am looking for one of these vehicles, so I am asking that if anyone knows of any for sale, please, let me know.

Veil Octane · 09-16-2002, 08:01 PM

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Originally Posted by jalvinj

I am very interested in getting a 88 or 89 Corolla GT-S. I have been looking for the right one for quite some time. If anyone would be able to help me out a little and just e-mail me with any information about where one might be available, I would be more than happy. And I don't care where it's located.

hey im looking for those cars too... im already looking for parts even before i have the car.

hey bud try and get the 1990 corolla gts more power in that one and all the bugs are fixed up that they missed in the prevous years..... its the last year they created tha body stile... there is about 130hp in the 1990.

toymaniac · 09-16-2002, 08:22 PM

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hey bud try and get the 1990 corolla gts more power in that one and all the bugs are fixed up that they missed in the prevous years.....

true

its the last year they created tha body stile... there is about 130hp in the 1990.

not quite so the model ae92 was sold from 88 to 92....

jalvinj · 09-16-2002, 08:27 PM

This is the type I want...exactly..except I would paint it...

Xenon · 09-16-2002, 11:53 PM

91 was actually the last year that came into North America and they're very rare and hard to find. I never heard of AE92's made in the year 1992 though. From what I nknow 1991 was the last year the AE92 SR5 and GTS models were made..

toymaniac · 09-17-2002, 11:04 AM

i said they were sold troughout 92 not made! :wink:

***REN69*** · 09-18-2002, 07:13 PM

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Originally Posted by jalvinj

This is the type I want...exactly..except I would paint it...

paint it.. lower it.. improve the engine performance.. but PLEEEZ!! DO NOT RICE IT UP!!!

smokey8890 · 09-19-2002, 07:10 AM

I been looking for for a ae86 for a while now. I really didn't know it was this hard to find. :cry:

1owner · 10-02-2002, 01:26 PM

I've got a very clean and well maintained '89 GT-S. My wife has been bugging me to sell, but I would rather commit hairy-cairy on myself than sell my baby. When I told my 8-year old daughter about selling, she cried! She's more like her old man than I give her credit for!
Good ones are hard to find. People tend to hold onto them. They (the Corolla Sports, SR5 & GT-S) were produced solely at a low production plant in Japan. When the Corolla Sports bowed out at the end of the '91 production, the Pasao was deemed a replacement (lower cost). Having actually sat in the back of a Paseao and used the brakes the way I occasionally would

I can say that the Corolla GT-S was worth the money. (O.K. flame me; that's where modifiers with insight come in).
BTW, the 10.5:1 compression '90 & '91 models which are rated at 130 net h.p. are not really noticably more powerful when you consider toque and seat of the pants feel. The TVIS system kept torque up at lower rpms due to higher intake velocity (if you call 100 lbs./ft. @ 4800 rpms torque) and was discontinued for '90 with the advent of higher compression (all good) and the advanced knock sensor (scarcely a replacement for the TVIS). O.K. so I'm biased. You've got good taste!