Tercel body transplanted onto 4runner chassis?

[Mattel]

You won't believe what someone did next... (BTW I hate clickbait)

http://www.curbsideclassic.com/blog/cc- ... terrunner/

[TURTCEL]

Im guessing it is powered by the 4 Runner engine then. Nice upgrade all around if you ask me.

Peace

[ARCHINSTL]

From a commenter in the thread concerning the above vehicle:
avatarCraig
Posted June 7, 2014 at 9:59 PM
In 1985 my govt employer bought a Tercel (Carib 4WD) and i promptly got it stuck in deep sand…it did eventually make it’s way back to the road before the tide got it, but i was NOT impresssed with it’s off road abilities…it was a reasonably nice small wagon though otherwise..

the gearbox arrangement provided for an ‘EL’ extra low ratio first gear. On full lock turns the front CV’s tended to ‘lock-up’ solid leaving you stranded halfway through the turn (hair-raising on a country highway). The trick was to reverse back out of it with screeching rubber and so on ..bloody hell ..those engineers had not thought that one out very well

…on the later early 90′s Lucida/Estima 4WD range the problem was sorted ..these fulltimers have GREAT tight locks and NO DRAMAS doing highway 180 turns.. good vehicles provided you don’t push them to hard (overheating issues) and provided you don’t roll them by aggressive turning at speed when the front suspension will ‘kneel and tuck under’ effectively flipping the vehicle
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Any truth to his second paragraph? I've not seen anyone mention this in the nine years I've been a member here.
Tom M.

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From a commenter in the thread concerning the above vehicle:
avatarCraig
Posted June 7, 2014 at 9:59 PM
In 1985 my govt employer bought a Tercel (Carib 4WD) and i promptly got it stuck in deep sand…it did eventually make it’s way back to the road before the tide got it, but i was NOT impresssed with it’s off road abilities…it was a reasonably nice small wagon though otherwise..

the gearbox arrangement provided for an ‘EL’ extra low ratio first gear. On full lock turns the front CV’s tended to ‘lock-up’ solid leaving you stranded halfway through the turn (hair-raising on a country highway). The trick was to reverse back out of it with screeching rubber and so on ..bloody hell ..those engineers had not thought that one out very well

…on the later early 90′s Lucida/Estima 4WD range the problem was sorted ..these fulltimers have GREAT tight locks and NO DRAMAS doing highway 180 turns.. good vehicles provided you don’t push them to hard (overheating issues) and provided you don’t roll them by aggressive turning at speed when the front suspension will ‘kneel and tuck under’ effectively flipping the vehicle
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Any truth to his second paragraph? I've not seen anyone mention this in the nine years I've been a member here.
Tom M.

i'm not clear on the 'lock-up' on full turns he mentions and having to reverse to fix it but it sounds like he was driving in 4wd on pavement. i would assume he didn't realize al25's are true 4wd with no center diff.

considering i also never had problems with overheating or the front suspension "kneeling and tucking under" in the 6 tercs i've owned, i don't think craig really knows what he's talking about. he does mention getting the car stuck in deep sand right away and aggressive turning so it sounds like he was expecting a hybrid 4wd monster truck/european sports car from a 62-hp entry level station wagon. he was destined for big disappointment. can't please em all.

[Petros]

either he has a tercel with a lot of suspension problems, or he is such an incompetent he does not know how to drive it.

You can not treat a 62 hp 4wd car, with only about 6 in of ground clearance, the same as you would treat a 4x4 truck. It is not really an "off road" vehicle, but a 4wd car for unimproved and low traction roads. apparently no one told this genius that.