A few weeks ago Turbiini78 sent me a video of him drifting at the Botniaring on the 12th of june.

Even though the Carina now is running on 225/50 R17 it still likes to throw up big clouds and happily goes sideways! :)

Had great fun yesterday at the Japan Classic Sunday 2010! Saw many friends, familiar faces and familiar cars! Even spotted two DOTS and spoke to one of them! :)

It was very hot today and after shooting pictures+talking I figured I needed a rest. Did miss quite a few cars that way, well shit can happen. Still sorting out all the pictures I shot and I will definitely upload pictures somewhere this week... For now you will have to do with my autojumble find:

JCS 2010 autojumble: Carina TA60 indicator lights
Yep, two original TA60 indicator lights! Too bad one of them has a small crack in them, but it isn't that bad... Apart from that I've probably sourced a trunklid and some side panels! You can never have enough parts I guess! :P

I found this drifting Lebanese Carina sedan some time ago on Youtube:

Judging from the looks the drift is initiated by applying the handbrake. It reminds me of how my Carina with open diff currently drifts: getting it sideways by using speed and momentum and praying you can keep it sideways more than half of the corner...

And compared to an AE86 it really looks like you are drifting in slow-motion:
Two more videos after the jump!

Today I own my TA60 Carina for exactly three years! I bought it on the seventh of the seventh of the seventh (07-07-2007), so in other words: lucky seven! This is what the car looked like when I bought it:

When I bought the Carina TA60
You can even see my old AE86 parked in front of it!

I bought the car after my girlfriend (in the meanwhile she became my wife) became pregnant of our son. When test fitting the child seats in the AE86 it was clear that the only way to fit the child seat was to put it in the front seat. Since everyone trying to sit in the back of the AE86 was complaining about every speedbump I took, cramps and more of that I realized it would be impossible to keep the AE86. So I tried to find a four door Cressida, Corona or Carina and found this Carina in a good deal. Basically the TA60 Carina can be considered a four door AE86 with a puny engine: it has (almost) the same axle, the same gearbox, the same steering rack, same front struts and the only difference is the absence of a 4AGE and a LSD!
Read on for the whole story and more pictures!

Emil and Thomas are from Norway and took their Carina TA60 sedans out on the Gardemoen ice track. Too bad Emil and Thomas used a copyrighted song for this video, but nevertheless it really looks like they are having fun in the snow (and ice):

It may not be suitable for the faint hearted, the ending is very bad for one of the Carinas... :(