Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Earlier this week I spotted a set of original Toyota Carina wind deflectors for sale in an auction:
They are interesting for me as these deflectors change the airflow around the windows and if you open your windows only an inch the air will be sucked from your car instead of having a big turbulence creating a racket of noise.
The deflectors weren’t entirely new and one of the rear deflectors even had a part missing: Continue reading
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
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