Toyota Camry Fans! You Can Own the Car That Started It All

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There's a rarely seen first-gen Toyota Corona for sale on the auction site Bring a Trailer. The aqua 1966 sedan comes complete with 13-inch wheels and a two-speed automatic transmission.

The Corona model was the predecessor to the Camry.

The no-reserve auction ends on Wednesday, January 19, with bidding as of Saturday at $3000 but sure to go up.

"From Small Things (Big Things One Day Come)," Bruce Springsteen once sang. The Boss probably wasn't referencing the first-gen Toyota Corona, but he could have been. This humble sedan—Toyota's second try at selling a passenger car in the U.S. market after the disaster of the Toyopet—is the model to which today's Toyota Camry can draw its lineage. And while the long-serving, bestselling Camry is a big deal, the Corona from which it sprung is indeed pretty small. It's also pretty obscure, which makes this highly original 1966 example, for sale right now on Bring a Trailer (our fellow Hearst Autos website) all the more significant.

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