Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2008 23:51:16 +1300
Reply-To: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
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From: Andrew Grebneff <andrew.grebneff@STONEBOW.OTAGO.AC.NZ>
Subject: Re: Announcement: the BZ Shelf (NVC) Friday
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>Sprinter Carib BZs don't have shelves,
being wagons.</blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite>But they could, couldn't they? It's your
larger furniture pieces, like chesterfields, armoires, or four-poster
beds, which wagons don't accommodate without considerable
difficulty.</blockquote>
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<div>It's Friday here... ao my posting was tongue-in-cheek. Toyota
used the Sprinter name long before Mercedes. They are Corollas with
external panel differences (1988-91 sedans were marketed in the US as
Geo Storms & Geo something-else; the previous generation was sold
there as Chevy Nova).</div>
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<div>The Carib was the 4WD Corolla wagon sold from 1983to about 00,
the 80s AE8x generation marketed in the US for some crazy reason as a
"Tercel", the 2nd generation AE94/95as Corolla 4WD and 3rd
(AE106) & 4th (AE111/112) not at all. Some had no differences to
normal Corollas, others had different or partly different appearance
(lights, hood, doorskins/side profile; fenders & doors would
bolt-onto other variants, but profiles would not match and window
frames might not be the same shape). The last version was 4WD (AE111)
or FWD (AE112), or was it the other way round? In addition the
AE100-series 4WD Corolla wagon remained in production alongside the
AE111/112, and like it was generally what the Europeans would call a
"sport wagon" but it didn't suffer from a short deck like
other "sport wagons". The BZ label was used on both the
AE10x Corolla and 11x Carib 4WD wagons.</div>
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<div>You could put shelves in a Carib, but not a bed. The rear deck is
shorter than in other Corolla wagons except in the E111/112, which was
identical to the Corolla wagon.</div>
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<div>Now, I DID carry a single bed in my 89 Corolla wagon once, and
have slept in it several times...</div>
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<div>Andrew Grebneff<br>
Dunedin<br>
New Zealand<br>
Fossil preparator</div>
<div><i>Seashell, Macintosh, VW/Toyota van nut</i></div>
<div><i>‚ Opinions stated are mine, not those of Otago
University</i></div>
<div>"There is water at the bottom of the ocean" -
Talking Heads</div>
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