hey, that car is what started me 4 wheelin. I have taken that thing through some pretty rough terrain. I have taken it halfway up yahkee boy basin in Ouray Colorado which is rated either 2-3, I think it was a 3. The only thing that prevented me from getting to the top was a rocky creek bed. The Tercel didn't have enough clearance. It is pretty funny to see the look on guys driving jeeps. Good thing it was a Toyota otherwise a vehicle 20 yrs. old w/ 230,000 miles would have never made it.
Hell yeah man. I still have my honda accord but I used to beat the piss outta that thing. Surprisingly the first gear and the little 2.2L engine were amazingly torquey...plus i found the most aggressive toyo tires for cars, these nasty mud/snow tires that look like mini BFG muds, and that helped out. i had a friend in high school that had a tercel, though it was probably a early 90. He lived in an area that got about 3 feet of snow in the winter and the roads werent plowed. He had the same tires I did and got them studded. used to leave his house at like 4:30AM because he had to mob through like 8 miles of snowy gravel roads before the high way to school. anyway, moral of the story is tercels are wheelers.
