28 replies to this topic

[Shiney005]

I'm guessing no one ever saw one of these in the flesh.............

There wouldn't be too many of these floating around either.

 

 grey 2.jpg   108.3K   2 downloads

 

 Grey 1.jpg   61.29K   1 downloads

 

I remember the Standard and Super bowsers in the later 70’s.

My old man went crook when the fuel truck stopped bringing Standard out to the farm and we had to pay the premium (no pun intended) for Super. 

In 1983 he bought a Toyota Cressida, a car that was designed to run on unleaded, which hadn't even been heard of here. It only took a couple of weeks driving for the lead to block up the catalytic convertor and have it running like a dog. At the time, the blokes at Bunbury Toyota  couldn't work out what was going on, so they just cut out the funny looking muffler from the exhaust and it was all sweet from there on. Beautiful car to drive it was too.

[yel327]

My parents bought a 1981-2 MX62 Cressida to replace the HQ wagon. They looked at a VH 6cyl auto SLE but it was junk compared to the Cressida. We never had fuel issues though. I think the 1983 were the same engine (5M-E), I don’t think they went to the 5M-GE until 1985, maybe a year into the MX73 shape? 5M-E was 2.8L EFI SOHC. 5M-EG was 2.8L DOHC with hydraulic lifters and was a ULP engine afaik.

[Dr Terry]

In 1983 he bought a Toyota Cressida, a car that was designed to run on unleaded, which hadn't even been heard of here. It only took a couple of weeks driving for the lead to block up the catalytic convertor and have it running like a dog. At the time, the blokes at Bunbury Toyota  couldn't work out what was going on, so they just cut out the funny looking muffler from the exhaust and it was all sweet from there on. Beautiful car to drive it was too.

It must have slipped through under the radar by mistake.

 

Most Toyota motors (most Japanese motors actually) had been designed for unleaded since the mid-70s because they were aimed at the US market which went unleaded at that time. Cars destined for countries without an unleaded petrol supply did not have cats fitted.

 

Toyotas for the Aust. market didn't get cats until mid-late 1975 because unleaded simply wasn't sold here until then. MX62 with the 5M-GE engine was the first Aust. market Cressida to get a cat. The earlier 5M-E engines did not.

 

Toyota dealers received a tech bulletin in mid-1985 alerting dealer technicians to this. That's why the guys at Bunbury Toyota couldn't work it out in 1983.

 

Dr Terry

[Shiney005]

I know we are heading off topic, but, it was definitely an MX62 with the 5M-E. The other odd thing about this car was that it was ordered two tone blue over silver, but it arrived silver over blue, and anywhere the blue got chipped it had the silver underneath.