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Carina Sightings: Joe Manji event in New Zealand

I read a blog posting last night at 86fighters about the Joe Manji event in New Zealand. Part II followed up later on and both parts feature Carinas. 🙂

First Carina is probably an AA63TA63 with the 4AGE 3T-GTE engine. Its front bumper got replaced for an AE92 front bumper:
Carina TA63 sedan at Joe Manji event
Carina TA63 sedan at Joe Manji event

The second Carina is a well known TA63 Carina with a 1UZ engine swap and a great history:
Carina sedan with 1UZ engine at Joe Manji event
Carina sedan with 1UZ engine at Joe Manji event

Carina sedan with 1UZ engine at Joe Manji event
Carina sedan with 1UZ engine at Joe Manji event

Carina sedan with 1UZ engine at Joe Manji event
Carina sedan with 1UZ engine at Joe Manji event

The owner (Glenn) did a great job on that Carina! As you can see the 1UZ engine is a great engine to put in a Carina! Unfortunately they are very very hard to get in Europe. 🙁

Update: A video got posted on Youtube:

That Carina is now a very sick car! And that 1UZ sounds brutal!
Great! Now I really want a 1UZ in mine! 🙁

If you seek more pictures of the Joe Manji Event:
Joe Manji Event Part I @86fighters
Joe Manji Event Part II @86fighters
Joe Manji Event Part I @beeoneoneoh
Joe Manji Event Part II @beeoneoneoh

2 Comments

  1. Keisuke86

    Top Carina is 3T-GTE powered.
    More pics of the carina on my site,
    Joe Manji pt.3

  2. banpei

    Thanks! 🙂
    I was already doubting about that, but the TA63 is becoming quite rare nowadays… The 3T-GTE is used for swaps and there were more AA63 than TA63 made by Toyota. I’ve corrected it in the posting.

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