1975 Toyota Corolla Hardtop SR5 [TE37]

1975 Toyota Corolla [TE37] in The Naked Director, TV Series, 2019-2025 IMDB Ep. 1.06

Class: Cars, Coupé — Model origin: JP — Made for: USA

1975 Toyota Corolla Hardtop SR5 [TE37]

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night cub US

2019-11-17 10:21

Looks like a [TE37] rather than a [TE27]

Q-Ball JP

2019-11-17 15:47

Another angle showing a bit more of the front end.
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I'm quite sure this footage is from September, 1982 - Indiana auto workers took swings with sledgehammers for $1 per swing.
This is the photo of the real event:

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dsl SX

2019-11-17 16:44

2 different cars - film captures have vinyl roof/pillars and extra lights in grille. Archive pic doesn't, and looks basic spec.

Gag Halfrunt UK

2019-11-17 16:53

So were there two different protests where two different Corolla coupés were smashed up?

Q-Ball JP

2019-11-18 01:56

Apparently so. I had just assumed that the archive photo was of the same smashing protest but taken later after the damage was done and the crowd had disbursed.

night cub US

2019-11-18 02:25

Gag Halfrunt wrote So were there two different protests where two different Corolla coupés were smashed up?

Yes, they were common during auto plant strikes in the late 70s-early 80s, the auto unions blamed Japanese auto manufacturers of flooding the market with cheap full efficient cars during the oil crises, eroding the Big 3 market share. The Big 3 wanted concessions from the unions. The end result was voluntary quotas by the Japanese auto makers, which lead to most of them to open plants in the US.

-- Last edit: 2019-11-18 02:25:50

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