Posing in front of your beloved Carina ST A40 with a huge glass bottle (presumably sake) made someone decide to draw whiskers on the owners face to mimic a cat: Or maybe it is a Japanese habit to make someone unrecognizable on the web. 😉 Anyway this picture is certainly something to keep in your…
I really love this song from 1992 by the Belgian comedian Hugo Matthysen where he sings about his 1981 Toyota Carina: And 1981 makes it most probably one of the last Carina TA40s that were delivered. The song is in Flemish, so it is hardly understandable for the non-Dutch/Flemish speakers but at least I tried…
Toyotas were sold throughout the world, so naturally the Carina was sold globally as well. This Argentinian Carina TA40 proves that: The Carina itself is a 2T powered late type Carina (1981) with the Japanese tail lights. In Europe we got different ones with four lights instead of the three in this model. You can…
Yesterday this orange Carina deluxe wagon became for sale on Marktplaats and I wrote to the owner asking if I could put it on the blog since it is such an amazing treasure find! Carina deluxe TA40 wagon The owner is the second owner of the car since 2006 and bought it back then with…
Another jewel at the Japan Classic Sunday was Eric’s shakotan stickerbombed TA40: Erics stickerbombed TA40 at JCS2011 I’ve seen a couple of stickerbombed cars, but never one that has them all over the side of the car! However on the other side it is almost empty: Erics stickerbombed TA40 at JCS2011 But wait, maybe there…
This week not a drifting Carina, not a JDM model, nor an A60 series Carina but rather an older model: a TA40 Carina. Why? Well, just because I kind of liked it: Toyota Carina TA40 DL This bumperless chicken fenced Carina looked kind of awesome to me. It reminded me of the old school tuning…