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For sale: My JDMish Toyota Carina 1.6 DX TA60

May 25, 2013 / banpei / 27 Comments

I made a tough decision last Monday: my Carina is for sale!

The reason why? Well I got an offer for a (project) car that I can’t refuse. ;)
My goal is to sell the whole as one lot, but if some buyer decides not to buy all the parts/JDM stuff I’ll put that here for sale seperately. So what does the whole package include?

Toyota Carina 1.6 DX TA60 Automatic
Built: 1982 (July)
Color: white (cream)
Mileage: 91874 km
Interior: black/cream white

The Carina has always had its checkups at a Toyota dealer and looks great for its age, but naturally there are some small points of attention: white stains on the windshield (outside viewing range so no MOT problem), rust on C-pilar near the left rear door, small parking dent on the right rear door but there is no scratch in the paint (some unknown person bumped into mine on a parkinglot and left without leaving a note).

The car has APK (Dutch MOT) till 7th of July 2013, exhaust has been replaced three years ago, waterpump last year and the car had its 90000 km checkup at the Toyota dealer October last year.
During the 90000 km checkup rust was revealed in the rear inner fenders and early 2013 this has been professionally fixed (by 2mmm sheetmetal) and the floorpan is now solid and rust free.
APK will naturally be prolonged by 2 years.

Specifications:

15 inch Celica Supra mk2 rims with Falken ZIEX 912 195/60R15 tires (5mm profile)
Toyota Corolla AE86 steering wheel (GT Twincam 16)
2 three point seatbelts and 1 hip seatbelt in the rear (kidsfriendly!)
JDM Toyota Soarer MZ10 centercaps
JDM tail lights (originals are easily restored)
JDM License plate holder
JDM Carina mudflaps at the read (got a Carina logo)
Koni shocks (yellow) ar the front (replaced 4 years ago)
Original Toyota cassette radio with automagic antenna
Yellow Marchal foglights

Extra parts (not mounted on the car):

Original TA60 steel rims with centercaps
Original tail lights
Koni shocks (red) to be mounted on the rear axle
New disk rotors
JDM AA63 Gauge cluster (including tacho, oil pressure, etc)
JDM quad headlights (needs work)
Various new old stock panels: front fenders left and right, rear quarter panel right, bootlid and front valance
New old stock read bumper
New old stock EUDM grill
Diamond shaped JDM grill of an AA60 ST
Rebuilt JDM quad headlight grille and surrounding
Shabby JDM quad headlight grille and surrounding
FOHA spoilerset from the early 80s (front air dam and bootlid spoiler)
Rebuilt TA40 gearbox (T50, 5 speed)
Celica TA40 propshaft
Celica TA40 flywheel
Celica TA40 dual carb (2TB)
A lot of small parts like extra sidelights and such

Asking price: 3950 euro
Price with or without parts is negotiable.

*update*
Apparently the contact form was broken for a while. Just fixed it…

JAF2013: The AEU86 spot and more AE86s!

May 23, 2013 / banpei / 4 Comments

Yesterday I already shared this photo:

And the reason for reposting it now is that I actually forgot to take photos of two important hachis: Oldskull’s and Mark’s three door hatchback Levins! This one does include Oldskull’s AE86 but not Mark’s.

Anyway, ChiKin was by far the youngest of the group but managed to attract most attention with his white panda zenki Sprinter Trueno GT Apex: Continue reading

JAF 2013: The first impression

May 22, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

Unlike last year I wasn’t a visitor at the Japanse Autosport Festival in Assen as my Carina was present on the paddock between the various sportscars. This year AEU86 decided to ask for a club spot on the paddock and we were granted a large spot in the mid-center of the paddock! Awesome!
We managed to get a total of six Hachis and two Carinas. A small impression of our spot:

Cars from left to right: Corolla GT (4AGE+ITB), Corolla GT (3S-GE BEAMS), Corolla GT (3S-GE BEAMS), JDM Sprinter Trueno GT Apex (4AGE), Corolla GT (4AGE)
Another panda red Corolla GT AE86 was parked behind the Carinas (behind the banner) and apart from ours another four Hachis were present atthe Toyota Noord club so altogether ten hachis were present outnumbering various other cars like the Mitsubishi Lancer Turbos and such. Not bad at all!

I did not have a lot of time to walk around and shoot pictures of all the cars, but at least I got a decent share of the most impressive cars. One that immediately drew my attention was this pink Impreza: Continue reading

Toyota Sprinter Trueno Black Limited AE86 gauge cluster Auctions Yahoo

Auctions Yahoo: Black Limited AE86 gauge cluster

May 16, 2013 / banpei / 3 Comments

Disclaimer: I’m not selling this! I posted this because it MAY interest someone as it is a super rare object. Don’t ask me any questions regarding the object as I do not own it!

If anyone has 40000 yen spare (roughly about 300 euro) you can buy an original Black Limited gauge cluster for your AE86:

Four hundred Black Limited cars were made and one of the distinguishing items on the car was an orange gauge cluster. So if you are building your own Black Limited copy you can make it a bit more genuine by buying this cluster. A whole lot better than making your own using an orange marker on your original cluster… ;)

On a sidenote: I missed this one in the AE86 Trivia about the various gauge clusters, so I’ll add this one later on.

You can find the auction here:
Black Limited AE86 gauge cluster for sale at Auctions Yahoo.
If you need any help buying and importing this cluster to your country, you can use companies like Hayatonka to get them for you. Be aware that the total price can be a bit more than the 300 euros price of the auction. :P

WW Kick-off 2013: Nissan Cima Grand Touring

April 15, 2013 / banpei / 3 Comments

It is a shame Nissan’s competitor of the Toyota Celsior (Lexus LS series) never made it to anywhere else than Japan and the US. Of course this Nissan Cima Y33 escaped Japan and fled to Europe, but it will always be an alien around here…

I’m happy it was a Cima that escaped and not an Infinity Q45 as the Cima is much better looking than its USDM twin-sister. If you squint your eyes you can even see it as a bigger Toyota Chaser JZX100 that was from the exact same era.

Of course the Chaser never met the luxury of the Cima, let alone the Grand Touring package: Continue reading

Wangan Warriors 2013 season kick-off Honda Civic Shuttle

WW Kick-off 2013: Shuttle love!

April 14, 2013 / banpei / 0 Comments

Walking together with the group we slowly approached this white Shuttle. I already had seen it but still the chanting of “shuttle-shuttle-shuttle” surprised me. Yes I had joined a group of Honda enthusiasts. ;)

The shuttle itself was basically bone-stock, apart from (oversized) rims.

I also took a picture up front: Continue reading

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