Remembering Japanese cars from the past
I found this just-after-clipping-point drift image of the Carina AA63 at the Inland Sea round of the MSC and it blew my mind away:
Carina AA63 at MSC
The blog I found it on gave it the title Masterpiece. I think he hit the hammer on the head with that title! ;)
Found at [Hatiroku]
I already posted about the Corona/Carina/Carina trio competing in the MSC tandem drift almost a year ago. A few weeks back Killian O’Brien posted this promo video of the 2007 MSC DVD on the Banpei.net page featuring them as well:
If you watch closely you can see them drift by a couple of times! :)
On the 22nd of August the MotorFIX team did a short practice run on YZ Circuit East Course. The practice is meant for the triple drift competition in the upcoming MSC challenge:
As you can see: the Corolla AE70 wagon is better than ever!
I finally found some video footage of the Carina AA63 I spotted each year at the MSC Inland Sea round!!
The car is not doing bad at all but he still lacks something. He misses the apex with a meter and doesn’t really keep his angle right, so it is just that his lines are a bit too wide I guess…
From its appearance it really looks like an 80s grachan zokusha! It has got an oil cooler sticking under its front bumper, it has the wild painted colors and a big banner on the front screen!
This is the car competing in round 12 in 2006:
Toyota Carina AA63 at MSC Inland Sea
Apparently the guy is local: I’ve never seen him competing outside the Inland Sea rounds. And the nice thing is he competes in that round every year!
This is the car competing in round 8 in 2007:
Toyota Carina AA63 at MSC Inland Sea
He always enters the Expert SD class but never manages to qualify for the best 12…
This is the car competing in round 4 in 2008:
Toyota Carina AA63 at MSC Inland Sea
Unfortunately there is still no complete photo page of round 11 of 2009, so we will have to wait for the 2009 photo a bit longer I guess…
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