SPEED HERO Blog — KE70

The E7 loves continue with a lapse in my memory. How could one forget the wicked Griffith built E7 Corolla convertible! What most people don't know is that almost all convertibles made start their lives out as hardtops. Toyota and most other manufacturers do not built the convertibles in house but rather send them to 'coach' builders. The hardtop car shows up at companies such as American Sunroof Corperation, Griffith, etc, and they just hack the roof off, add some chassis braces and start bolting and gluing shit together. It's standard practice! Want to see more old Japanese coach built...

So you love your E7 Corolla do ya? Let's go through some basics with them! So what the hell does E7 mean anyway? Well, many of you awesome fanboys out there understand that the AE86 is a RWD corolla sold by Toyota, also known as Sprinter Trueno or Levin. I'm sure most of you know that those letters and numbers are the code for the frame of the car and actually have a specific meaning! A: Stands for the series of engine the car came with. In...

Capital city Drift happened last Friday and as James gets the Speed Hero coverage post organized I must share my fun. After some changes in staffing in multiple and odd ways, I decided to, whether it was welcomed I'm unsure, take a big part of the organization of the event. Life is a bit funny, the track we rent, Western Speedway, often has a slew of crushable cars sitting in their lot for different demo days. One of these was a near new looking '80 Corolla sedan with Quad headlights. ...

A group of KE70 lovers, Team MotorFix is RAD AS FUCK. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifwZ4ORnLho]