Tag: Carina sightings (Page 33 of 39)

Carina Sightings: The Assembly – Never Never

May 20, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

From time to time I still look at the Internet Movie Car Database to see if there are listed new entries for the Toyota Carina. This is not a new entry, but I finally found the original video clip. ;)

The music video of Never Never by The Assembly was shot in 1983 and was a one hit wonder: Vince Clarke (ex Yazoo) formed a new band and teamed up with Fergal Sharkey (Undertones). The band only created one single album with only one single hitsong. This song also featured on Grand Theft Auto – Vice City Stories on one of the radio stations.

The clip features a windmill, some trailerpark background and Fergal Sharkey walking around. On the IMCDB I found two screenshots of Toyota different Carinas:

White Toyota Carina TA60 van

The first screenshot is at 1:19, but I’m unable to find the second screenshot. The child in the foreground is clearly the same as the one in the music video but I could not find this shot after watching it three times in a row… I even downloaded the flashmovie and watched the clip 6 or 7 times over and over again. I also watched the movie skipping forward and backwards around transitions.

Black Toyota Carina TA60 front

Then I searched the internet for other versions of this song, but all of them have the same length and I had to give up. So after watching this music video for a total 10 times now I can’t stand that damn song anymore! :X

Anyone else volunteer to search for that frame? :D

Carina Sightings: my Carina within 5 years?

May 13, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

I was wondering if this white Toyota Carina TA60 I found on autoscout24 is actually my very own Carina within 5 years…

On this picture the car looks quite okay:

This Carina TA60 could be the brother of mine

But when looking more into the details it gets less beautiful:

Rust on the right front fender

And even worse:

Trunk decal is almost rusting off!

And this view looks very very familiar:
Nice clean dashboard and a 5 speed gearbox
Nice clean dashboard and the car has a 5 speed gearbox

And even the interior is exactly the same as mine (but then a bit more worn):

Stained seats and dirty carpets

So it is a white Carina TA60 with white/black interior and the only difference between this one and my own are the 5 speed gearbox and the rusty spots… So the big question is: am I seeing the future here? ;)

Carina sightings: the famous Carina firevan part 3

May 6, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

By chance I stumbled upon a picture of the famous Carina firevan and by chance I looked if the source of the picture also had more pictures of the car.

SA60 Carina firevan on a expressway

Lucky enough the source did: it also featured a short video of the firevan starting its Beams 3SGE engine, so you can now listen to that orchestra of 4 trumpets!

The owner is playing some nice music! :D

SA60 Carina firevan at car meeting
This picture is shot at the same meeting as the first picture of my first posting about the firevan. The pattern of the water is the same and probably the rain stopped after a while and things dried up after that. ;)

SA60 Carina firevan in the rain
I have no idea why this picture was taken… Maybe these three pictures and video belong to a bigger set of pictures taken at a car meeting?

You can find the other two postings about the firevan here:
Carina firevan Part 1
Carina firevan Part 2

Carina Sightings: CT141 Corona taxi

May 6, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%88%E3%83%A8%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B3%E3%83%AD%E3%83%8A

Carina Sightings: Carina AA63 Sedan on Suzuka

April 15, 2009 / banpei / 0 Comments

Yesterday I found this video of an AA63 sedan racing on Suzuka circuit (west course). The engine is probably almost bone stock with a few small modifications like an open airfilter.

He does a quite good run but then runs into some slower (probably pit out) Hakosuka Skylines and then gets passed by a very quick 280ZX. Quite fun to see him trying to chase the 280ZX for some time but then he gets engine trouble.

You can hear around 4:12 some metal sound in the engine note and the driver probably broke something in the engine. Also in the comments it states that the engine broke, but it doesn’t say exactly what broke. He then tails the Ken-meri and another Hakosuka Skyline and when he enters the pit lane he immediately leaves the track.

Carina Sightings: Carina AA63 4AGZE Supercharged Sedan

April 8, 2009 / banpei / 7 Comments

Some time ago I came across a gallery on photos.yahoo.co.jp with this very nice supercharged Carina GTR sedan:

Carina AA63 4AGZE Supercharged Sedan
Unfortunately there is not much info within this gallery, so we can only do guesswork here!

At least the car got a really nice old school Toyota decal on the bonnet! I still can’t understand why Toyota swapped this logo for the current one: it looks much better than the old one! (Of course I do know why… ;) )

Nice lip! I still need to mount mine, so I hope mine will look just as great as this one! ;)

Great stance on this Carina AA63
The stance of this Carina is just perfect: lowered just enough with just enough camber on the front! (rear goes automatically with lowering)

The car is pretty beaten up so I recon it is being used/abused often:

Used/abused front of the Carina

And it is also very rusted:
Rusted trunk under the Carina GTR logo
Rusted trunk under the GTR logo
I think this describes the state of the body pretty much.

But this makes everything right I guess:
4AGZE in the enginebay of a Carina AA63
4AGZE in the enginebay
The 4AGZE supercharger swap should be quite streightforward, just like on the AE86: supercharger flow is rerouted to the front and pushes the air through the front mounted intercooler.

There is no cage installed so it wasn’t used as a track or drift car, so this car should have seen a lot of action on the roads instead. Could be a touge drifter or maybe a drag racer?

Eventough this Carina is probably rusted through badly I would swap it for mine anytime! ;)

If you want to view all pictures, you can find the gallery here:
Gallery of the supercharged Carina GTR AA63