WILL IT RUN?! 1983 Toyota Tercel 4x4 WAGON SCRAPPED?!?! 

My parents had one of these back in the 80s and I wasn't enough of a motorhead to appreciate what a cool car it was.

I would LOVE to have this beautiful creation from Toyota, such an amazing car that Toyota will not bring back.

Depressing that these reliable car are being toss to the junkyards to never be seen on the roads ever again 😔

17 years since parked and a lawn mower battery. that's the reason toyota has a good reputation. what a great car!!

That is the reason Toyota makes the best car in the world.

*Such an everlasting beauty, Honda can never come close when it comes to durability, comfort and performance. This aged beauty has got cruise control as well on the right side of the steering column.*

I have an 84 with a 3 speed automatic. It sat in a friend's driveway for 8 years. I now commute to work and use it in the winter. Also the sticker says it was manufactured June 84... so was I :D

Safe to say that it doesn't matter what year it is if it's a Toyota and it's been maintained just decently it will run! Unbelievable cars!!

The fact that a 285 ca lawn mower battery cranked that over, blows my mind

I bought One of these beauties for 300$ mine was CLAPPED OUT. Little to my knowledge there was mattress foam, yes.. MATTRESS FOAM stuffed in the shock towers A turkey baster as an oil cap I only had brakes on one side and best of all the rear axle was floppin' around so bad I don't even think it had more than one mounting point left to the frame! I still regret getting rid of it. Such a unique and fun 4 wheeler. Had my fun with it and sold it for $275

Nice score on that sweet baby. Not even surprised the least by the results and the lawn mower battery. Especially once you said it was the timing belt that ended it. The 3A-C is a non interference engine, so no worries when the belt breaks.

Save it please! Those cars are getting harder and harder to find.

My first car was an 84 Tercel 4x4 Wagon. This video hits me right in the nostalgia bone.

Great little vid!! Happy it started so quick after sitting so long. I worked with a gal in the late '80s that had one of these and was t-boned so hard it rolled over. She was injured but recovered. These were well built little cars!

What the hell is it doing there? 179,000 miles?!?! Its a Toyota it just passed the break in period!!! Every Toyota I've owned has gone over 290k!! I have a 1994 Corolla I've owned since new and currently has 368,000 miles and still running.

Toyotas will never die! My friend totaled his 1996 Tercel in a front end collision where the radiator was destroyed and pushed into the engine, also one of the headlight brackets punctured the battery. But it still started up and actually moved!

Jessie's car in breaking bad lmao

Ah hell yeah that’s awesome!! 15 years and she fired right up like it was driven yesterday

We had one of those , tough as hell, cheap on gas and go anywhere just about , just goes to show Toyota was and still is today a better value for your money .

Please its a great Toyota dont crush save it

I loved my little toyota Tercel wagon. That little car would crawl through the snow like no other.

God I love Toyotas. Especially ones from the 80s and 90s.

That's worth a save. Make a great winter ❄️ runabout

I own a 1992 Toyota tercel, bought it for a winter beater car but it is such a great car, I ended up rebuilding it and now I have an extra commuter car. Makes the Oswego ny to Syracuse ny commute with zero issues, even in the snow. The car has the original starter, alternator and flywheel. Toyota make some awesome cars.

That digital gauge thingy would be a clock lmao

Perfect video to watch before going through North Carolina

Clearly it will run. Thanks for bringing back memories! I learned to drive in such a car, but only the FWD coupe version. This car is a marvel of reliability.

I'm honestly not surprised it ran. Those Toyota's will pretty much run until they are wrecked! (provided you take care of them like you should) I had a Camry that ran like new until it got totaled out. It had 380,xxx miles on it. A Toyota with less than 200,000 miles on it is barely broken in. I used to know someone that had one of these cars with over 400,000 miles on it that he used as a daily driver

These things are just so dorky looking you have to love it. Also the Honda Civic version of this is a lot of fun as well. If you do junk it(might have terminal rust underneath), be sure and save that T hood ornament and the grill with the big 4WD badge.

I’d love to see this thing drive again. It’s an awesome piece of history.

best car I ever owned! ‘85 Tercel 4WD wagon. Had to junk it at 243,000 miles because the carb would not pass MD. Emissions. Broke my heart.

Definitely worth saving! I have an 83 that I got a few years back with a checkered past, runs great now after some rebuilding...

i had one same colour and all back in the late 80s and into the 90s even had a set of tall skinny bias ply snow tires for it. great winter car ahead of its time. sold it to a friend who used it as a log skidder into 2001. it was no timberjack but it would do a surprising amount of work in 4wd amd granny low. thank you for posting this video of a real unsung hero

This was the first video i watched that got me into junkyard vehicles

Wow man. Too awesome. Toyota legend continues.

Omg!! I love your videos. Love your road trips.

Those cars are awesome in the snow. My aunt and uncle gave one to my cousin. Blizzard of 96 was no match. His didn't have the funny hood ornament.

I live in Jordan, i saw some cars like this one still serving very well, these rare Wagons must be saved

I owned one, an SR5 version, I got it with a blown gear box, some ditz drained it never, refilled it, some quick lube joint. Bought a new dif/trans from the dealer. Great car.

Oh yes it runs... yay.. id love to see it drive :).. Thanks for the upload Jay !!

I unironically love these

Wow that's really cool! These old early 80's Toyota's are getting rare. I'd love to find one in my part of SC.

hell yeah, that is a 4wd tercel. its worth trying to save. maybe you might get a celica all trac turbo in one day. that would be a rare catch..l

This car is a legend...putting into the crusher is criminal.

Whatever happens to the car pull the transmission! The transmissions are very hard to find for them.

Man. This is one of my guilty pleasure favorite cars along with the AMC Eagle. I would own both it I had disposable cash for a Hooptie fleet. I came close to buying one of these around 1990. It was a pimped out SR5 spec: 2 tone brown and gold with plaid fabric interior. I couldn't get passed the oh so 1980's paint scheme that is cool now but wasn't back then

SAVE IT!!! That is a UNIQUE car!!!

That's awesome!!!! Love the vids man! Y'all kick ass

Very cool little station wagons 👍

Sweet mother of God... no crippling rust, the import car nuts here in Chicago would go crazy for it

My mom bought one of these back when I was 15 or so in mid 80s. The original owner drove in city only never doing more than 40 mph. She had to get it tuned up because it wouldn't go over 45mph. After that it ran fine.

clearly 80's toyota's were built to last, it has a lawn mower battery on it, had a tree and had been sitting for 15 years maybe longer and it runs when fuel is poured into the inlet, throw some tryes on it and lets go off roading!

That's a great little car, 4wd, 5spd wagon, perfect combination .

That's Toyota for you. 15+ years of sitting and somehow it still fires and spins over with a used lawn tractor battery! P.s Hey Cool Dad!

You should keep it just because it's a rare Toyota....

One of the coolest Toyotas from the eighties

What a little beast! 👌

Thanks for the new video

Man, I love seeing these old Toyotas fire up like all is normal. I'm sure you could get that car back on the road easily for a couple hundred bucks, and get another 20,000 miles out of it

My family had that same car possibly with a different VIN. It was the same color and 4WD. We lived in NC but we may have sold the car by 2000. We loved it. One moment may have shortened the life of the car. In the late 1990s my family was trying to get rid of a clothes line post. After much digging, I suggested to use the 4WD and extra low gear to pull out the post. It didn't work and the car emitted black smoke. We stopped as to not risk further vehicle damage. It never ran as well after that event as it had previously. As for the clothes line post, we found that my grand father had "over built" it by securing it with a large ball of cement. We had to chisel that away or something. We left the other clothesline post. My dad said that that clothesline post could have withstood a direct nuclear blast.

That’s why Toyotas are such a good cars they run no matter how long they been sitting 👍

Love these old ‘yotas, you can’t kill ‘em

These old cars are amazing 😉

Wow, I am impressed!

I would love to have that. Classic toyotas are awesome

You can depend on your Toyota!

Nice little classic for someone :)

Hope you have a fun time with the car my friend like videos keep them coming that’s a classic in my opinion Toyota never die in my opinion. Have a good one.

Those things are awesome!

Save this one, Jay!! These are hard to find nowadays. My dad had an '83 SR5 4wd that ran for 250k miles before he sold it. That was a sad day. Only thing major he had to do to it was rebuild the carburetor and replace the timing belt. He put bigger diameter tires on it to raise the ground clearance a couple inches and took that thing everywhere he could in the Colorado mountains on trails keeping up with Jeeps and misc 4x4's until it plain ran out of power. Those engines only had 55 horsepower but very torquey. I learned how to drive a stick in that car when I was 16. Loved that car.

1:01 Gauge with hours and minutes. That is known as a clock

I used to have a 1983 Tercel hatchback with over 200,000 miles on it. Those cars are TANKS! Bought a '97 too because of it.

Hi please save that classic Toyota in my country we will surely restore it in full.

Love these videos :-)

Love your hands

Only has 180k miles. I've seen Toyota's like these used to travel around junk yards for years. A rolled over, roof missing 1984 Toyota Tercel 4wd was especially fun at one unpaved huge yard.

I had one just like it. 83 model. Mine was 4wd 5 speed, when you put in into 4wd you had an extra low gear. That thing would go anywhere, best pulling little car ive ever seen.

Love these cars

Awesome! Maybe I'll get that video on carbs now!

Looking forward to the next video

This is amazing and that Toyota is beautiful this makes me proud I went from a Honda guy to a Toyota guy I'm sticking with Toyotas i got a 2010 Corolla XRS with a 5 Speed Manual Transmission I can tell it'll last a very long time as long as I keep it completely maintained I'm doing a tune up in April and I think I'm gonna get a complete engine rebuild kit so the life of my engine will extend longer and last a very long time I love Toyotas they are the number one most reliable cars and they don't require a ton of repairs like Honda's and Nissans

In my personal opinion older cars like these now a days deserve better credit than what they’re given. The metal in them is much stronger, they can survive the harshest of elements and if you wanna car with some up grades and you own something like this pay for the upgrades to it instead of wasting your money buying something new. I have a 1990 truck and it gets me from point a to point b. Whenever something in it goes bad in it I get it replaced to keep it going and I’ve changed out it’s cassette stereo to a auxiliary stereo.

Doesn't appear to have too much rust damage for a 1980s Toyota so definitely worth fixing up.

My mates got two of these and they love the paddock tandems 🤙🤙✌

Of course it runs! It's a Toyota.

Dude, I can see it on 31's and a lift. Call it the freak show. Kinda sweet! Love your videos brother

heck yeah you're gonna drive that thing!

Born in September ‘83. Just like me. Yeah buddy!

If it’s too rusty to save them it would make a fun off-road toy.

I'd absolutely kill for one of those. Those are extremely rare and will run forever. Please save such a amazing car.

Great little snow car.

Damn it Jay! It's an 84! LMAO I'm sure you know this, but typically when a manufacturer dates the vehicle AFTER the 6th month of the year it's the next year's model, especially a later month like September. It was cool to see it fire right up on the first crank though. Especially after sitting for 18 years.

I had one that I used for 14 years, sold it when it had 386,000 and still kicking. I never for get it. Great car.

Old toyotas never die

As you probably figured by now, anything JDM that's RWD or 4wd = Worth it's weight in gold. I hope you held onto this one.

ive owned 3....none failed me unless it was my fault... my last one ran until the body rusted out and even drove itself to the junkyard with the doors falling of... its the only car in the last 20 years ive ever trusted to get me home .

Save it! My dad had one of these growing up and he drove it everyday for 7 year, even through the blizzard of 03 and we got 6 feet of snow

That is friggin' AWESOME.. I guess my 2003 Camry will run..well..forever!

Yay another game of Will It Run!

SAVE THIS CAR!!!