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Carina Sightings: Impulse AA63 Carina coupe


From the front this Carina coupe is almost the spitting image of last weeks tekamens rival but you can see after the windhield it is clearly a coupe and not a sedan:
Carina AA63 coupe by Impulse
Carina AA63 coupe by Impulse

This Carina was tuned by Impulse (also known for their excellent AE86s) and the bigport 4AGE engine was swapped for a later type 20 valve blacktop. Also the deep dish gold mesh rims suit the coupe well.

As you can see they rerouted the waterlines, heatwrapped spaghetti exhaust headers and direct spark ignition:
Carina AA63 coupe by Impulse
Carina AA63 coupe by Impulse

Nice job! :)

Found at [Impulse]

DOTS: doing it wrong with a Sunny N14!


This Nissan Sunny N14 was parked right next to my house and immediately caught my attention. Made a small U-turn (I was on my bike) and took a few pictures. Can you guess what is wrong with this Nissan Sunny?
DOTS: Nissan Sunny N14
DOTS: Nissan Sunny N14

Take good notice of the position of the steering wheel (yes, LHD).

And then compare it with this close-up picture:
DOTS: Nissan Sunny N14
DOTS: Nissan Sunny N14

You probably already guessed it: there is a Recaro seat in that Sunny and it is on the passenger side!
WTF?! You are doing it wrong! The driver should sit in the Recaro and the passenger on the normal seat! :D

BTW: both pictures were shot with my Helios 44-2 lens on f2.8, hence the big amount of bokeh.

DOTS: 1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse GSi

Found this 1998 Mitsubishi Eclipse mk2 parked a few blocks away a few weeks ago:
Down on the Street: Mitsubishi Eclipse mk2
Down on the Street: Mitsubishi Eclipse mk2

This Eclipse is a late type Eclipse and, as you can see, a bit tuned up. The wheels are Nissan GT-R Nismo lookalikes Work Emotions and just a tiny bit too small for the car but that doesn’t ruint the looks at all…

And at the rear it features a very small spoiler (edit: OEM spoiler) as well:
Down on the Street: Mitsubishi Eclipse mk2
Down on the Street: Mitsubishi Eclipse mk2

I must say that, apart from the wheels, the whole style looks well balanced.

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