Remembering Japanese cars from the past
I wonder if this couple did pose next to that Carina GT-T TA63 like Sonny Chiba and Kayoko Kishimoto on purpose?
In case you are wondering what I am talking about: Sonny Chiba and Kayoko Kishimoto were doing the Carina A60 commercials together.
Here are a couple of the commercials featuring both of them: Continue reading
I was amazed by the looks of Bafo’s Carina TA60:
It has been lowered a bit and features what looks like Hayashi Street Target Mag wheels.
You can see more in the video: Continue reading
Don’t you just love it when people get inspired by the Carina A60? This drawing was made by someone getting inspired by the Tomica Limited Vintage Carina sedan:
When I looked through the Carina 1500 brochure I noticed this page:
The resemblance is striking. ;)
Earlier this week I bumped into this dark-grey panda (at least, that’s what it looks for a colorblind person) Carina AA63 sedan:
I did spot a Carina GT-TR TA63 coupe in this color scheme before but never a Carina sedan, so I guess it must be quite unique. ;)
Found at Minkara
Two weeks ago I finally started to do something about the enormous pileup of JDM parts in the shed, so I mounted the JDM tail lights, Carina mudguards and Soarer centercaps!
Then I took off to properly wash the car and do a small photoshoot in the neighborhood:
Even though all lightbulbs inside the tail lights survived travelling half the world on a ship there was one problem with these new tail lights: they lack both the illumination and fog lights. That means that they don’t light up when I turn on the lights of the Carina.
Lucky enough I can directly mount in the insides of the EU tail lights which I still haven’t done so far. For the photoshoot I faked the illumination by putting my camera bag on the brake pedal. ;) Continue reading
We all love timelapse videos, especially if you can see something built from the ground up!
In this timelapse video an New Zealand Carina GT Turbo TA63 gets its engine bay stripped and its four cylinder 3T-GTE turbo replaced by a supercharged V8 1UZ-FE! Continue reading
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