Carina Sightings: Hukkapätkä in Motopark!
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Remember the piece of waste by Isokorpi Customs? It is no longer a piece of waste: Isokorpi Customs managed to shoehorn a 1JZ-GTE in the enginebay:…
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Carina Sightings: Finnish Carina snowed in
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Even though in most parts of Europe the winter comes to an end and spring is in the air the Finnish are still struggling with snow and frost. While you can only enter this Carina CA60 from the rear entrance and it is completely snowed in it starts instantly. (video on the next page)…
Carina Sightings: Hukkapätkä!
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As far as I understood hukkapätkä means “a piece of waste” in the Finnish language. Perhaps Isokorpi Customs was thinking about that when they created this monstrous Carina, but I have to disagree on that! They probably used a Carina TA60 as the base of this monster and put something more powerful in it. Judging…
Carina Sightings: Carina 4A-GE turbo drifting @ Botniaring
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I was blown away when I watched this clip: this Finnish Carina TA60 with 4A-GE turbo swap has so much power left to spare during its long corner drifts! It is almost child’s play to put it sideways!
Carina Sightings: Finnish Carina with quad headlights
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When I first saw this Carina TA60 sedan I thought the quad headlights were either originals (without the citylights) or taken from a Celica: Carina TA60 with Audi quad headlights But I was wrong: they are from an Audi Quattro! If you look close enough you can see the original sidemarkers are missing their citylights:…