Hail, To The Ke50

[Rolla__Boy]

Here are pics of my old KE50, please excuse the blurry pics, it's all I have. I was like so many others when I first saw the car, I remember it being advertised as a KE50, and I thought to myself, I bet it's a KE55 and these people are idiots.

 

So I rang them, and said what is it, and they said it's a KE50, and it's a 2 door liftback, I thought, these people are obviously morons.

 

So I rock up there and find out I am the moron, and here before me was the weirdest ugliest thing I had ever laid eyes on.

 

Then I put my wheels on it and lowered it a touch (4 inches) I fell in love with all that is KE50!!

[Rolla__Boy]

I have seen a fair stack in the last few years.

[wyldephyre]

I quite dig that 70's styling.

[Felix]

i've seen quite a few over the years. i agree, they are extremely fugly. what were toyota thinking? they should have been bitch slapped severely.

 

about the only thing they are good for is a disc conversion for a ke1x, ke2x...or a tacho dash conversion for a ke3x or ke55. lol.

[Rolla__Boy]

They have the same discs as KE3x.

 

I don't think they are ugly.

 

And they are bloody handy, seats fold down and shit. I managed to fit a straight bar, towing bar, in mine from one corner in the front to the back right corner haha.

[Clown]

thats so damn ugly that i think its acutally hot!. WEIRD!

[Clown]

Looking at the pictures again, i think i've seen one of those in the flesh before.

[mikeys toy[RL]]

we have them in the states, they're fairly common....a te51; the ONLY "5" series to make it here

[Super Jamie]

there's a overrated grandpa-spec one that has been parked out the front of ballina bowls club most days of the week for as long as i can remember, certainly before i got into corollas

 

i don't mind them, they're different, bit more unique than a 4 door sedan. i'd like to see one with a normal ke30 front end on it

 

beats me why johnny rochester went to the trouble of importing levin front sheet metal from america for his fake "te37", he could have just bought a ke50 for a few hundred bucks

 

ken & nikki have one of these at the moment, i'm not sure what they're doing with it, but ken reckons someone has already put a T series diff in it?

[Nitephyre]

see jamie, thats why in the other post i thought it was an imported Levin or something.. i've never seen one here before.. i think they look alright... would look sweet in black, lowered with some small dish *nods*

[Ke50]

i like my car. while most of you think its ugly, i still like it. it kinda grows on you.

i like its uniqueness too. but thats just me.

i don't know if ill ever sell it.

[Rolla__Boy]

I'll never get rid of mine.......

 

Oh hang on, too late :D

[-Miller-]

they definetly have a unique shape. don't think I would buy 1 though but yes, it would grow on you

[dysolve]

ugly enough to be different.. ugly enough to turn heads

 

i so want one, i was one of these in sydney and i thought some idiot had smashed his AE86 and bolted a ke35 front to it lol

 

now who is the idiot

[Rolla__Boy]

I didn't think the front looked anything like a KE30