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Carina Sightings: AA63 drift missile


I found a Carina GT-R bargain on auctions yahoo: it has many modifications, RS Watanabe and Hayashi Street rims and only costs 70000 yen!
Carina AA63 drift missile
Carina AA63 drift missile

From this side it looks quite okay…

But from this angle:
Carina AA63 drift missile
Carina AA63 drift missile

It looks like sh*t!
The tail lights already have been swapped for late type tail lights and even if you are handy with a hammer and chisel you can’t make much of it anymore…

On the positive side: many modifications have been made to this car, including some nice goodies under the hood:
Carina AA63 drift missile
Carina AA63 drift missile

A tower brace, carburetors, 4-1 performance header, trunk battery, MSD ignition, high lift cams and a balanced crankshaft. Apart from that it has camberplates, a roll cage, FC Calipers, bucket seats and many more modifications!

I’d personally say the car is definitely worth it for spares if you can manage to pay the shipping costs. 😉
You can find the auction here: Carina drift missile on Auctions Yahoo

Video: old school drifting in Funabashi (Chiba)

TwinTurboRS posted his 100th video and it is a very very very long street drift video (47 minutes!) from a long long long time ago on Youtube in the Funabashi near the pear area (Chiba prefecture) featuring many AE86s, RX7 FCs, Skyline R30s and even a Carina TA63 @8:45:

Unfortunately embedding is disabled, so you will have to click on the picture to watch the video!

Even in the intro you can even see a 8 spoke RS Watanabe in a pile of discarded wheels! Madness! Enjoy 47 minutes of madness!

Found at [TwinTurboRS]

Carina Sightings: Kyusha Kai Carina GT-TR

I found this kyusha kai styled Carina GT-TR on a spring meeting of a few other Carinas on Carview. I think this is definitely the coolest Carina I saw so far:
Kyusha Kai Carina GT-TR TA63
Kyusha Kai Carina GT-TR TA63

Lowered, black fender extenders, gunmetal grey RS Watanabe rims, rollcage, bride seat, etc. etc…

Now that Carina alone would have been a great post by itself, but then I spotted this picture of a Carina A60 sticker:
I want this Carina sticker!
I want this Carina A60 sticker!

The coolest thing ever!! Now let’s see if I can lay my hands upon one! 🙂

Carina sightings: Carina GT-TR with twin cam turbo interior

Yesterday I spotted this amazing all original Toyota Carina GT-TR sedan on Goo-net:
Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63

The only modifications done to this Carina was adding set of 14 inch Watanabe rims and repairing the front airdam!

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63

The car only traveled 82000 kilometers so far (that is 357 less than mine!) which is peanuts for a car like this!

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63

It still has the original Twin Cam Turbo interior (GT-TR only) and the interior still looks spotless! Also note that this is one of the few GT-TRs which has no rollcage installed!

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63

Engine surely looks like it did 82K, but no more and no less. 😉
Also note that there are no camberplates or strutbars installed. Car certainly has not been used as a circuit or drift car!

Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63
Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63

In other words: this is a very nice uncut gem! You possibly can’t find a GT-TR in a better state than this!

If you are willing to spend 580.000 yen ($6600) on this beauty with full history it is certainly worth every penny (uh, yen?)!
You can find the car here:
Toyota Carina sedan GT-TR TA63 on goo-net

Japanese rustoseums (part two)

Time for some more Japanese rustoseums:
Rusty Toyota Carina TA63 GT-TR
Rusty Toyota Carina TA63 GT-TR

This rusty beaten up Carina GT-TR was found here.

Rusty Toyota Corolla Levin AE85
Rusty Toyota Corolla Levin AE85

I posted this rusty Corolla Levin AE85 before on hachiroku.com.au. It is painted in the infamous colorcode 879 and it has got a nice pair of fender mirrors! 😉

Rusty Toyota Starlet KP61
Rusty Toyota Starlet KP61

This KP61 Starlet interested me: it is sitting in a junkyard and yet it has a set of Watanabe rims! Who would throw out a pair of wats?
Also funny to see the foliage coming out of the grille! First thought is always that the foliage must have been picked up during a ride, but in reality it is just growing from under the car!

It wasn’t planned to make this a Toyota only rustoseum posting, but next time I’ll make it up by posting only non-Toyota rustoseums!

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