Topic: Daddy, where do 22Rs come from?

[te51levin]

I thought some of you might get a kick of out seeing this.  It's a '63 Toyopet Crown Custom packing a 3R - being an R series it's an ancestor to all the 20R and 22R variants floating around this place.  There are lots of nice pictures of the engine, all freshly rebuilt and still disassembled.  Kinda fun to see where it all came from (if you're as big a nerd as I am).

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140173726314&ru=http://motors.search.ebay.com:80/140173726314_W0QQfromZR40QQfviZ1

[Duffil]

That is pretty cool. the earliest R I was aware of was the 5R, and it's industrial.  I can't imagine how long and how much $$$ it cost the guy to get those parts.
This one reminds me of half of an SBC:

[oddball]

Cool stuff and yes I am a nerd http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyota_R_engine#R

[unclejpl4x4]

thats so cool

[brainlessfool]

the frist eng. I ever helped out with was my older sis's 3RC in her 69 toy corona.

put a BIG cam in it and a weber carb on it. dan I miss that old car. was a four door.

used to call it the econ-O-rod. 

[tryn2Crawl]

Thats the true gas saver-hybrid.....Love the cut floorboard.When you run out of gas, walk it.HEHEHE. It's the flinstone mobile guys!hehe

[46&2]

That thing is rad. Thanks for the link I had never heard of the Toyopet before