To be honest, I wish I took more photos of the car in this form before we tore it apart. I guess when you are in the moment you don’t really think of these things. As the car was slowly being torn apart, a little voice from the future came back to remind me that the 86 was never going to look like this again. As fucked as it looked, the car was already cemented into peoples minds like this and long after its restoration, this version will be the car people remember. It was still running and driving, just missing the dash and seats and cage and well everything from the interior. I quickly placed everything inside and brought it out for its final photo shoot.
Did we just find the rustiest AE86 ever? Barry finds this poor Corolla at the side of a shed and we chop off its chassis leg to use in the Trueno.
I was lucky enough to shoot this beauty while it was still in one piece. To this day, this is still the most badass E series wagon I have ever encountered. The dark metallic black paint, smoked out rear windows combined with chunky black steelies give this car a very Mad Max-esque look.
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Barry chases the last major rust holes in the AE86 and Reuben gets his C33 Laurel back up and running.