Every generation of Carinas had its GT model, including the A40 generation. The A40 generation had four flavors of GT models: the 4 door sedan and 3 door hardtop, powered by the 1588cc 2T-G and the 1968cc 18R-G engines.

This 1980 four door Carina is the kouki GT 2000 sedan, meaning it is a RA45:

Toyota Carina GT RA45
The quad headlights on the GT model really look like a predecessor of the A60 headlights.

And the taillights also look very different from the normal A40:
More on this RA45 on the next page...

Rovin sent me a message that he is selling a JDM digital cluster for the Carina A60 on Ebay:

Digital Cluster for the Carina
Just like the other top of the line early 80s cars by Toyota, the Carina got a digital cluster as well. It all started with the 1981 Toyota Soarer, then it passed on to the 1982 Toyota Celica XX, the 1982 Toyota Carina, 1982 Toyota Crown S110 and later on in the 1983 Toyota Corolla Levin and Toyota Sprinter Trueno AE86. Note that all cars (except the AE86) were released with a digital dash before the worlld was introduced with the digital dashboard from Knight Rider! ;)

Anyway, Rovin is selling this rare (optional) digital dashboard for the Carina A60, and it even includes the necessary connectors:
Second picture after the jump!

To say in yesterdays rustoseum spirits we will continue today with a rusty Carina SG left in a field:

Rusty Carina SG
I found it here and the translated text mentions something about a famous catchphrase "Carina foot guy". I searched on it and found here that it was the catchphrase of the first generation Carina GT.
Anyone more familiar with that phrase?

I found a couple of meeting pictures of the so called Showa Meeting Vol 1 (2010) which, obviously, is a meeting focussed on all automotive cars from the Showa era. Since the emperor died in 1989 the range of cars is obviously very wide, including a couple of early 80s Carinas!

Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 at Showa Meeting Vol 1
This white AA63 Carina GT-R has a mismatched front grille. The grille was taken from a late type car and the Road Runner II badge was taken from a lower spec Carina. Apart from that it looks awesome sitting that low on those wats!

This Carina GT-R looked a bit less awesome:
More Carina GT-Rs at the next page!

I spotted this great looking picture on PhilsCarBlog and recognized the car as Yokosuka's deep blue AA63 I posted before:

Yokosuka's Carina AA63
So I decided to have another look at his blog and found that he made quite a few updates in the past 10 months!

First of all he shot this beautiful sakura picture:
Pictures of Sakura, hairdressers and 3 door Carina coupes on the next page!