Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Now this is a sad case as this Carina is not rusting…
yet…
You can clearly see some foliage growing out of the car where ever the plants can make their way to a more sunny spot, so why not just take the hole in the transmission tunnel as the quickest way out? Continue reading
We all love timelapse videos, especially if you can see something built from the ground up!
In this timelapse video an New Zealand Carina GT Turbo TA63 gets its engine bay stripped and its four cylinder 3T-GTE turbo replaced by a supercharged V8 1UZ-FE! Continue reading
What is even more impressive than the Motorfix 1UZ (with ITBs) powered UZE70 Corolla? A supercharged 1UZ Celica XX GA61 (aka the Celica Supra mk.2) with its supercharger sticking out of the bonnet in Mad Max style!
Spotted by 28865737ADEK HistoriX Japan 2011
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 GTR logo
I think this describes the state of the body pretty much.
But this makes everything right I guess:
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
Some time ago I wrote about the Toyota Comfort GT-Z being an ideal family car. Also Mike Garrett wrote about the Toyota Comfort GT-Z on Speedhunters last week. Well, it can be yours because there are two for sale on Goo-Net!
Toyota Comfort GT-Z on Goo-net
For only 12500 euros this baby is yours! May sound like much, but this GT-Z only drove customers (if it has seen customers at all!) 43000 kilometers, so that’s practically nothing! And it is one of 59! Absolutely unique! :)
However… Unique? What about this then?
Toyota Comfort GT-Z on Goo-net
Another GT-Z for sale??
And it is cheaper than the other one: only 11800 euros for a car that only drove 46000 kilometers! Sounds like a bargain! :)
Both cars have the same color (navy), still have the stock bodykit and RS Wantanabes and imagine: both can be obtained for the same amount of money as you would normally spend on a Toyota Corolla AE86 in the same state with the same mileage! Think about it: this car has serious potential (3SGTE anybody?) and there is nothing like it anywhere in the world! Except Japan of course…
You can find the cars here:
Toyota Comfort GT-Z #1
Toyota Comfort GT-Z #2
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