Tag: carina sedan (Page 10 of 14)

Carina Sightings: Ironmask’s worst enemy

November 24, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

The person who shot the pictures of this Carina AA63 GT-R is actually a Skyline DR30 fan. He went out to take a look at, as he calls it, the Iron Mask’s worst enemy:

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R
It does make sense in some way… Sure the Carina GT-R does looks (about as) intimidating, was produced in the same era, has roughly the same dimensions but it never came with power output near what the FJ20ET produced (the Carina TA63 GT-TR came nearer).

I must say that the metal surrounding on the headlights look very nice on the Carina!

The Hayashi Streets sure look great on this Carina:

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R
And am I seeing this right? Someone made the R in GT-R red? :D

Found at [Godsigma]

Carina Sightings: fast hard shine

October 6, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

My heart jumped a bit when I saw this CA18DET powered Carina sedan on Youtube:

I don’t understand much from the Malay language but looking at all that shine under the bonnet it surely must be an impressive Carina! :)
Judging from the two tone paint on the bumper it could be based upon a GT-R or a GT-TR.

Any Malaysian visitors know more about this Carina? :?db

Carina Sightings: RA45 Carina GT sedan

September 1, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

Every generation of Carinas had its GT model, including the A40 generation. The A40 generation had four flavors of GT models: the 4 door sedan and 3 door hardtop, powered by the 1588cc 2T-G and the 1968cc 18R-G engines.

This 1980 four door Carina is the kouki GT 2000 sedan, meaning it is a RA45:

Toyota Carina GT RA45
The quad headlights on the GT model really look like a predecessor of the A60 headlights.

And the taillights also look very different from the normal A40:

Toyota Carina GT RA45
They are darker and the reverse lights are now placed inside the moulding.

It also got lowered a bit:

Toyota Carina GT RA45
These old school Work Equipe reverse really fit the Kyusha Kai style!

Seeing how beautiful the kouki A40 actually can be I would trade my TA60 for one anytime! ;)

Carina Sightings: Bad ass Carina GT-Rs!

August 11, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

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

Carina Sightings: Yokosuka’s deep blue Carina AA63 (part 2)

August 4, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I spotted this great looking picture on PhilsCarBlog and recognized the car as Yokosuka’s deep blue AA63 I posted before:
Yokosuka's Carina AA63
Yokosuka’s Carina AA63
So I decided to have another look at his blog and found that he made quite a few updates in the past 10 months!

First of all he shot this beautiful sakura picture:

Yokosukas Carina AA63 under Cherry Blossom (sakura)

And what about getting a trim?

Yokosukas Carina AA63 haircut
Well, he got the haircut, not the Carina. ;)

Or help your fellow Carina owner with an oil change:

Carina AA63 sedan and coupe
The coupe is owned by a friend of him and they regularly do maintenance together on the Carinas!

Carina Sightings: Lebanese Carina TA60

July 14, 2010 / banpei / 3 Comments

I found this drifting Lebanese Carina sedan some time ago on Youtube:

Judging from the looks the drift is initiated by applying the handbrake. It reminds me of how my Carina with open diff currently drifts: getting it sideways by using speed and momentum and praying you can keep it sideways more than half of the corner…

And compared to an AE86 it really looks like you are drifting in slow-motion:

This one is done nicely though:

Anyway, it is nice to find a Carina located somewhere else than Japan, Australia or Europe. I didn’t even know they had them in the middle east! :)