Thanks to the rest of you blokes for your input.

Re lowering the back, my old eyes tell me the back is lower than the front at the moment, so basically I want even it up, or a little lower at the front than back, who knows. I actually just got back from 5 days away and the old Corona handled the trip with ease. I bought a set of wider alloy wheels and tyres for the princely sum of $200-00 before I left and that helped it go around corners better, but, I still want to lower the front a little to see what happens, apart from making it look better.

On another note, on the trip we did 2,485 k's and used 165 litres of petrol, i.e. 15 k's per litre, 6.5 litres per 100 k or thereabouts. I'm pretty happy with that. This Corona wagon has done 430,000 k's and just keeps rolling along, hopefully for another 430,000. Cheers.