I posted about this Fairlady 280ZX before in the Family Album Treasures, but this time I found a picture of him and his Carina GT-R buddy sitting on the bonnets of their cars:
Carina and 280ZX
Buddy pictures always should end up in the family albums. ;)
Tag: Carina GT-R (Page 7 of 11)
I guess this is one of these bargains you always hope for: a blue Carina GT-R AA63 for only 30000 yen! That is only 370 US dollars! And (at time of posting) the auction only has 11 hours to go before it ends!My bad: it still has 12 days to go before it ends!
Carina GT-R AA63 by Garage Hana
This blue GT-R is currently for sale at Auctions Yahoo with an opening bid of 30000 yen! Why? Because it is covering the recycling costs! It is of course questionable if the seller actually will sell it for that price, but he specifically states “Only the highest bid is fine because it is inclusive of charge for recycling.“.
The Carina is a 1983 model, only covered 150k kilometers and was painted Alfa Romeo 147 midnight blue a few years ago. The deep dish white SSR mesh rims really complement the whole car.
Carina GT-R AA63 by Garage Hana
Apart from having a clean 4A-GE it also got (a non functioning) aircon and powersteering under the hood and powerwindows and central locking in its doors.
Not only does it have all those luxury options: it is also features a lightened AE101 flywheel, lowered with AE92 shocks and springs at the front and GAB shocks and cut springs at the rear. It also has a FRP bonnet and trunklid to save weight!
Carina GT-R AA63 by Garage Hana
IMO a real bargain for that price!
If you are still not convinced, here is a gallery of the Carina!
You can find the auction here: Midnight blue Carina AA63.
From the same place where I found the rustoseums earlier this week a red Carina AA63 GT-R tucked away in some shed:
Tucked away GT-R
It has late type taillights and panda rear bumper, so it is definitely a kouki model.
Found here
I found a couple of meeting pictures of the so called Showa Meeting Vol 1 (2010) which, obviously, is a meeting focussed on all automotive cars from the Showa era. Since the emperor died in 1989 the range of cars is obviously very wide, including a couple of early 80s Carinas!
Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 at Showa Meeting Vol 1
This white AA63 Carina GT-R has a mismatched front grille. The grille was taken from a late type car and the Road Runner II badge was taken from a lower spec Carina. Apart from that it looks awesome sitting that low on those wats!
This Carina GT-R looked a bit less awesome:
Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 at Showa Meeting Vol 1
But nevertheless I would certainly love to have it parked with those Longchamps in front of my house! ;)
This was the group shot of the Showa Meeting crew, and guess what they chose as background vehicles?
Showa Meeting Vol 1 Crew in front of Carinas
A bunch of Carinas! \o/
Too bad I couldn’t find a picture of the yellow Carina… It looks bad ass with all its camber and rollcage! And it is the only vehicle in the lineup that is lower than that lowered Bug! :D
I’m not very fond of Volk racing rims nor led headlights on (modern) nostalgics, however I do think they suit this white Carina GT-R well:
White Carina GT-R E-AA63 with led headlights
The Carina is a five speed manual with an AE92 4AGE engine swap, controlled by a Freedom ECU. Too bad the owner did not post up more pictures, info and specs of this Carina, so it is unknown which 4AGE (smallport of bigport) it is… :(
My heart jumped last wednesday when Alexi Smith from Nori Yaro posted this white toyota Carina GT-R AA63 drifting on a wet Suzuka:
White Carina AA63 by Nori Yaro
Did he know wednesdays is always my Carina Sighting day? Did he do that on purpose? Can’t he post up a wallpaper version of that picture? :P
Anyway, head over to Nori Yaro for more pictures of this white beauty:
white Carina GT-R AA63 at Nori Yaro