{"id":157,"date":"2008-05-28T22:00:28","date_gmt":"2008-05-29T03:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=157"},"modified":"2015-04-04T23:32:54","modified_gmt":"2015-04-05T03:32:54","slug":"motoring-j-style-2008-showcases-unique-swaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=157","title":{"rendered":"Motoring J Style 2008 Showcases Unique Swaps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Motoring J Style was held at Vallejo, CA this year. In the show was a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/motoring-j-style-vallejo-ca-2008\/\">4.3L 3UZ-FE V8 swapped Toyota Corona<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/motoring-j-style-vallejo-ca-2008\/\">F20C powered Celica<\/a>, and a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/photos\/motoring-j-style-vallejo-ca-2008\/\">Datsun 510 wagon powered by a 7M-GTE<\/a>. I don&#8217;t know anything about the Corona besides what one can see in the image but it seems to be a full tubular frame chassis with a lexan windshield. If others know more about the Corona and Celica please leave a comment.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Autoblog<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Motoring J Style was held at Vallejo, CA this year. In the show was a 4.3L 3UZ-FE V8 swapped Toyota Corona, a F20C powered Celica, and a Datsun 510 wagon powered by a 7M-GTE. I don&#8217;t know anything about the Corona besides what one can see in the image but it seems to be a&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=157\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Motoring J Style 2008 Showcases Unique Swaps<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":145502,"url":"https:\/\/engineswapdepot.com\/?p=145502","url_meta":{"origin":157,"position":0},"title":"Toyota Celica with a Turbo 2.0L Inline-Six","author":"swaptastic","date":"February 23, 2026","format":false,"excerpt":"built this Toyota Celica TA23 at their company in Go\u0142dap, Poland. 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