Description:

Raced every year since new. Always a race car. 5 races on completed restoration. All Log books from 1976. Extensive documentation. Very competiitve, legal anywhere, Historic B Sedan. Eleven invitations to the SCCA National Championships. Originally built by Marv Thompson. Considered the fastest BS in the country during his ownership. This car set a lap record at Hallet the year before I bought it in 2003. I have talked with Marv and restored the car using a new tub to make it as it was when he built it. The new tub was dipped and put on a rotiserrire to detail everything. Everything from the original car was restored and reused.It has Hurst Airheart front calipers but the rear has been upgraded to discs. That upgrade was legal at the time but Marv ran the finned Datsun drum brakes. Some are included in the sale.


History

Marv Thompson, SCCA National Chanpion in DSR, wanted to field a car in the most competitive class in SCCA and chose the Toyota Corolla as his best chance to be competitive. He bought the original car from Wheels Toyota in Lansing Michigan and proceeded to race prepare it immediately. He had help from Dave Headley and Dick Hull. The car was developed during 1972 and in 1973, Marv won enough to be invited to the SCCA Run Offs. During his ownership, the car was argurably the fastest BS in the nation, regularly beating the Bob Sharp Datsuns. Marv sold the car when GM, the company he worked for, persuaded him to prepare a Sunbird. Marv says it was his worst decision ever to sell the Corolla. The next seven owners raced the car and were invited to the SCCA National Championships eight more times. I purchased the car after it's last trip to the Run Offs in 2003 and started an extensive restoration. I would work on the car for months then race prep and run it every year. During the last two years I have had conflicts that have made competing in the car more difficult. I hope the new owner will continue the legacy this car has.Performance Data

• B Sedan
  
• 1730 lbs
  

Engine

• Toyota
  
• 2T-C
  
• 1610 cc
  
• 200 +
  
• 133 ft.lbs.
  
• WTwo Weber 48 DCOE's
  
• Aluminum
  
• Steel
  
• Billet steel
  
• 2T-C
  
• Crower
  
• Ross
  
• Engle F52-C
  
• Stainless Steel
  
• Isky Double springs / Ti retainers
  
• Tilton 5.5
  
• Tilton OTIII
  
• Quartermaster Ultralight Billet Steel
  
• Stainless steel Tri Y
  
• 3 races
  

Fuel System

• 
  
• ATL
  
• 7 years
  
• 12 Gal
  
• Two Bendix Low Pressure
  
• 110 octane racing fuel
  

Electrical System

• Crane Hi 6 CD
  
• none
  
• Odyssey PC 680
  

Transmission

• Toyota
  
• T-50
  
• 5
  
• TRD Quick Shift
  
• None
  
• 3 races
  
• Ultra Close ratio
  

Rear End

• Datsun
  
• 510 Station Wagon
  
• 4.38
  
• OS Giken
  
• 2 races
  

Body

• Steel unibody with fiberglass hood, front fenders and rear flares
  
• White/orange
  
• Excellent
  

Chassis

• Unibody
  
• Toyota
  
• Steel
  
• Excellent
  
• MacPherson Strut
  
• Leaf spring with panhard bar and torque rods
  
• Koni Double Adjustable 4 races old
  
• Hurst Airheart front calipers
  
• Recirculating ball freshly rebuilt
  
• American Racing 13 x 8
  
• Hoosier
  

Interior

• Gray
  
• 5 lb Halon
  
• 5 point with HANS compatible seat
  
• Stewart Warner
  
• Detachable
  
• excellent
  

Spares

• 3 Ultra close ratio transmissions
  
• Parts for five race engines
  
• Hood, front fender and rear flare molds
  
• Grille, tailight and trim pieces
  
• 2 1/2 sets spare American Racing wheel and one set aluminum wheels 13x8
  
• Mikuni Taper Bore carburators with tuning parts
  
• Two sets Weber 45 DCOE one spare set Weber 48 DCOE
  
• Much more