rev up your engines, today I'm gonna talk about the indestructibility of the old
Camrys in this case it's a 93 Camry with a four-cylinder engine and an automatic
transmission now it may look a little beat-up as we walk around it and when we
look inside it looks like goats have been chewing on the armrest in the
middle and yeah the paint's faded it's got a different door on the gas cap here
on the tail light it even size crack and someone smashed into the trunk the
electrical window doesn't work anymore and you can see the hood on the driver's
side even though it's closed that's a big gap from being hip where the other
side it's still relatively normal but it still runs like a clock got 318 thousand
miles on it but the air-conditioning still blows cold as ice and even though
it's only got a four-cylinder engine and an automatic transmission look at this
it still takes off like a rocket ship got plenty of acceleration
and sure it balances quite a bit one you hit bumps well hey the shocks and
struts are all worn out on it but it still goes down the highway
now this was a luxury model has the pneumatic struts to hold the hood up
instead of having that little rod on it and amazingly enough they still working
hold the hood up no you see my customers modified it he's got these giant wires
cuz he put a fancy stereo system on it but the old toy alternator is still good
enough to run all that power back in 93 when they were making these things they
over engineered them so they lasted and the 2200 cc
four-cylinder engine they could run for ever this 93 has got the original
engine the original transmission the original air conditioner they built
those things to last sure maybe they didn't paint them they couldn't most day
he saw the hood but hey it's still running and it's not rusty it's just
corroding and check this out look at the headlamps 1993 they made them better in
those days know when he's first came out I had customers at bottom and they said
we road tested one and thought oh it's got a v6 or v8 engine it they open
the hood and see it's only a four-cylinder engine that is one
well-designed four-cylinder engine now they didn't sell many of these in the
United States with the 5-speed standard transmission spot years ago I had a
customer special order one and that thing could burn rubber in all five
gears it was an extremely fast car but it made him mad because back in a day if
you got the standard 5-speed transmission you couldn't get it with
power windows so he had to buy it with hand crank windows and he was mad cuz he
wanted power windows but back then they didn't make them now they were well
thought out car to a cavernous trunk that goes on and on and back seats in a
Japanese car back then they had a lot of room you didn't feel like you were
squeezed into a sardine pan now sure this car seemed better cosmetic days but
it still runs like a clock heck I got my youngest son one of these ages ago use
he ran it into walls even flattened all the tires one time but the thing just
kept going it had a lot of dings and ripples in him and I got a lot parts
from junkyards like hoods and things when he kept breaking them know where we
go order the car you can see they still got some of these plastic pieces you can
take them and throw them away but the main thing about these are the big solid
metal right here so even if you went over a speed bump rather than hitting
the bottom of the engine it would just scrape this part of the frame which is a
great design on these cars it certainly saved it when my son was driving his a
bottom of that thing man it was all scraped but it hadn't touched the engine
or transmission and a big advantage even if you own one today as tell many of the
parts are interchangeable give me an aftermarket door handles
really it's just two different ones so I applies the gradient even back then I
think I bring one the other day took me like five minutes on the internet till I
found one three blocks down the street at an autozone and it cost me less than
a hundred bucks the whole brand-new radio they're still cheap to drive and
repair and being that old ditch your tiny sinks is dirt cheap because after
all they're just a four-cylinder engine I drove one from here to Big Bend with
speed limits 85 and I went 90 once I got outside San Antonio the
speed limit went up to 85 the whole way no problem we're all cruising down there
and back other than having indigestion for meeting at a really bad Mexican
restaurant near the border he's all Camrys were pretty much indestructible
monsters with just a tiny bit of maintenance and if you want to get the
ultimate rat car hey this old camry could be the car for you
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