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Righto, Soooooo i have been prompted by my father (Duddley) and mother (cazza) to begin keeping track of my project Cressi in the projects section of the oldschool forums......which doesnt seem like a daft idea. As any teenager with a imagination, and a addiction to 80s and 90s JDM cars i fixated on the square style of 80s toyotas, Since i was about 15 i NEEDED a car with style points and with room to modify, I would froth at the mouth like a rabid pitbull next to a toddler at any listing on facebook and or trade me. and as of october last year my date with fate arrived in the shape of a gorgeous 1985 MX73 Cressida GXL. (THE Cressi) SHE HAS EVERYTHING. (except working rear windows, working AC, Speedo that reads the correct numbers, and a fuel gauge, working central locking.) BUT IM TALKING; AHEM...DIGI DASH, 5mGE, Electric Windows (fronts), CRUISE CONTROL (which i will be deleting). for 1985 thats pretty damn cooooooooooooool The car was in nelson....I was in Hawkesbay......So i took a plane down sight unseen and brought it and drove her back, very very bold, but payed off awesomly for future me, (at the time me had to wake up for work 2 hours after i got home) issues i needed to address immediately were a oil leak and some wheel bearings.... so naturally i waited 5 months before i got my ass into gear and sorted it. anyways i shall leave pictures, and come back when i do somthing interesting.

Purchased this gem from fello os'er 'oldnathan'. I'm a 4AGE boy at heart but have always had a love for the old boxy Cressidas, also needing a tow car for the kp i figured...why not. Bit of history on the old girl: 1986 - Started off her life at the Toyota plant in Thames, at 60 thou km's in 1993 it was sold on to some old geezer who owned the car for about 11 years. This is the part that saddens me, last year the coot decided to take her to the local wreckers for scrap!! luckily it was saved but i'm assuming when the cambelt was changed around this time the crank bolt wasn't torqued correctly and eventually slackened off enough and did the damage. The car was passed on to Nathan who then must've realized his v12 Cressida was more important, then on to me. The thing that really grabbed me was that it was basically bone stock, I have further found out from the scrap yard that ford springs were put in the rear to lower it a bit but other than that she's unmolested. Specs: Engine - 5M-GE 2.8L (worlds first engine of its kind with hydraulic tappets) Transmission - A43DE 4 speed with lock-up torque converter Rear end - Independant semi trailing, f series? 4.1:1 Sweet bits: Classic Digital dash, Leather interior (seen better days), Cruise control, illuminating drivers door key and ignition barrel, power mirrors & windows, central locking, vehicle speed sensitive power assisted steering, remote radio & a/c controls, trick gold Cressida wheels which am pointed out to have been painted, dam nice job at that. So enough blabbering, got the car trailered home last saturday knowing it had spun the crank timing pulley key then stripped it all down, found the crank seems (fingers crossed) ok but the pulley is quite damaged. Managed to hunt down a brand new pulley from murica and will be here tomorrow. In the mean time I spent the weekend cleaning the old girl up, nothing too major, most of the electrics weren't working but have found the one door was completely missing its regulator! in place was a handy piece of kiwi ingenuity...a block of wood nonetheless kept at it, diagnosed most of it, windows switches needs replacing, radio fuse was blown which stopped the wing mirrors from working...go figure. bits of rust here and there but all fixable, have sent through a mad order through to a guy for a bunch of stuff so hopefully can get all those nek wek. Basically im doing a slight resto, bringing her back to its original grandad/ma self in all of its sheepwool seat cover, cassette tape radio, bobble headed dog glory. Dont get me wrong I love seeing them slammed on a nice set of Japanese 14's, but I'm wanting something a bit more practical with comfort and style in mind. Thoughts here