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Carina sightings: Corona CT141 taxi at JCCA NYM 2010

February 10, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

Not entirely a Carina this week, but it is as near as it can be:

Toyota Corona CT141 taxi
The Corona T140 series featured the last of the Corona lineup used as a taxi! The Corona T140 taxi was basically a Corona in the middle with a Carina A60 front and rear end.

After the T14 series taxi was finally phased out in 1991 Toyota replaced it with the Crown S130 taxi lineup, which became a separate model from the S150 model (Toyota Comfort) onwards.

It is beautiful to see someone saved one of these ubiquitous taxis and remained it as close to stock as possible! The only thing missing in this picture is the taxi sign on the roof! :)

Found at Life doodling.

Need car guidance? Nissan Skyline GT R31

February 9, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Need car guidance on your Nissan Skyline R31?

This lovely lady can surely help you out with her Caribbean background music! ;)

Random: Fujiwara Tofu Corolla AE81 special

February 8, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

No, that is not a typo! It is indeed an Fujiwara Tofu Toyota Corolla AE81:

Fujiwara Tofu Corolla AE81 special
If Bunta Fujiwara would have driven an AE81 instead of the famous AE86, this is how he would have dressed up his little rolla. ;)
(it even has proper sideskirts!)

Found on Dennis’s mango blog when browsing the archives.

DOTS: Toyota MR2 times two!

February 7, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

Somewhere during early October I spotted this immaculate white MR2:

White Toyota MR2 mk1
This 1987 MR2 is a USDM import and entered the Netherlands somewhere in 1993. Somehow it surely must have been garaged a lot during its life: my Trueno was imported to the Netherlands during the same era but did not survive the Dutch weather well and the MR2 is renowned to be rust proofed just as bad as the AE86…

White Toyota MR2 mk1
I only saw this MR2 once, so I don’t have many pictures of it. As you can see the MR2 is parked in front of building which is under construction. Well the building is still under construction, so maybe the owner will return when everything has been finished. ;)

Red Toyota MR2 mk1
The same day I spotted this faded red MR2 somewhere in a private yard. It is about 150 meters away from the white MR2 and doesn’t have its MOT renewed since 2000… The yard used to be owned by a secondhand car dealer, so maybe this MR2 is a leftover? I’m still thinking about visiting the owner of the place and do some inquiries about the car. :)

Commerical time: tiny dust cloud tells everything

February 6, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

This Nissan cinema advertisement from 1980 should have no comments at all: the tiny dust cloud tells you everything!

Hilarious: American muscle is stronger than Japanese tin

February 5, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Yesterday I already posted a car chase by the Abunai Deka and today I have another one! This time they swapped their regular Nissan Leopard Y31 for a second generation Pontiac Firebird Trans Am!

Now this is a perfectly good example why American cars are superior to the Japanese: you can empty your gun on a Trans Am and it will still be going as strong as when it left the Pontiac factory in the mid 70s! Now compare that to their regular Leopard: would they have survived at such an attack at all?

After four and a half minute of wrecking 20 to 30 perfectly good late 70s and early 80s Salary Men type saloons it comes to an end when the Trans Am finally escapes the junkyard. It must have been a wise choice of the director to pick the junkyard as the background of this scene: after wrecking 30 cars you can just leave them there! Saves a lot of trouble in logistics! Brilliant!

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