I found this Toyota Carina AA63 sedan caught on celluloid doing an early morning touge practice on Minkara:

Carina AA63 morning practice at a touge
I love the smell of rubber in the morning!
Just a damn beautiful sight!

Here is another one from the same corner/angle:
After the jump more pictures and info...

Last friday Michael from Retro Classics posted some pictures of the New Zealand Nationals 2010, including a Carina AA63 coupe going head to head with a Corolla AE70 hardtop:

Toyota Carina AA63 coupe and Corolla AE70 hardtop
The coupe features a set of SSR Longchamps at front and some less wide rims at the rear (probably the extra set of tires). It looks very good with the Longchamps, so a mental note to myself: buy a set whenever you can get them! ;)

Dunno what's up with the hood, but it looks loose on the picture above and fastened on the picture below:

Toyota Carina AA63 coupe
Somehow the Carina single headlights look much better on a coupe than on a sedan!

You can find more pictures of the Carina, Corolla and many other great classics (like a 810910 Bluebird hardtop!) on Retro Classics blog or at their Flickr page.

It was already a long time ago that I came across this very very very very good preserved Carina TA63 Coupe shot by the Flickr user pigs.of.darkness:

Very good looking Carina Coupe TA63

It looks like it just rolled out of the factory a few days ago and the owner slapped on a set of SSR Longchamp XR4 at the rear and a set of 2 piece Watanabe RS F817 rims at the front! Then thought a lip would finish off its 80s looks!

Rear of the Carina Coupe TA63

At the rear you can spot a very very tiny dent next to the trunklid, so that actually gives away that the car is not brand new anymore.

Paint is still beautiful on this Carina TA63 Coupe
Just look at how beautiful the paint still is: it reflects the van next to it perfectly!

Carina TA63 Coupe Twin cam Turbo
3T-GTE powered Carina Twin cam turbo. What else could you wish for... Anyone wants to buy a kidney??

[ source: pigs.of.darkness' photostream ]