Category: carina sightings (Page 15 of 37)

Carina Sightings: Russian Carina hardtop coupe TA42

April 6, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

In the same thread as yesterdays Carina coupe there was a link to someones 1981 JDM Carina hardtop coupe TA42.

Russian Toyota Carina TA42
Even though the Carina is missing some (small) pieces of trim it still appears to be in quite decent state!

Especially the interior still looks great:

Russian Toyota Carina TA42
Here you can clearly see the difference between a coupe and a hardtop coupe: it doesn’t feature a B-pillar and therefore it is a hardtop. Unfortunately the hardtops never made it to the A60 series. :(

I love the weird thin tail-lights of the coupes:

Russian Toyota Carina TA42

And here is another thing that never made it outside Japan:

Russian Toyota Carina TA42 with fuel injected 3T-U
A fuel injected 1800cc 3T-EU engine that makes 105hp. An additional 20hp compared to the carburetted 3T we got in Europe and it certainly has a better (and cleaner) breath as well and comparable to the 2 liter 18R engines that could be found in the European Celica XTs.

IMO a very nice Carina and I would swap my Carina for this one any day!

Found at [Carina TA42 @ drom.ru]

Carina Sightings: Belgian pre-production Carina GL

March 30, 2011 / banpei / 1 Comment

I was going through the collection of Carina brochure pictures and one small detail stroke me on this brochure:

Belgian Carina GL
The Carina in the bottom picture is a Belgian Carina TA60 GL. Now that isn’t that weird, but the brochure is Japanese and dated as S56-9 (September 1981). The Carina A60 lineup was released in September 1981 so the Carina on the brochure must have been a pre-production model.

This was done by Toyota before, just like the Levin and Trueno AE86 European tour in 1983 but we’re talking about a left hand drive Carina here.

Also in this picture you can see the front of the car is actually featuring quad headlights:

Belgian Carina GL
Now it gets even more confusing and more and more questions arise!
Why did they feature a LHD pre-production car in Belgium in a JDM brochure? And why does it have quad headlights while all European models did only have the normal headlights? And where is that car now?

Carina Sightings: Bishimoto 3T-GTE Carina TA14

March 23, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

I found this video of a Bisimoto tuned 3T-GTE engined Carina TA14 on a set of SSR Longchamp xr4s.

That sound is like music to my ears!

Carina Sightings: Roman’s SA60 Carina

March 16, 2011 / banpei / 4 Comments

I’ve been (slowly) watching Roman fixing up his AA60 Carina coupe. Every few months he posted another update or image on AEU86.org showing what progress he made, either a F series live axle, an engine bay spray or acquisition of a 3SGE. Two weeks ago his Carina came back from the paintshop and all he has to do now is to put that puzzle back together. :D

This is how the project looked half way in 2008:

Romans SA60 Carina coupe project

And this is how it looks now in light greige metallic:

Romans SA60 Carina coupe project
As you can see, most of the interior is already back in. Bumpers, fuelcap, fenders, headlights… A long list of (small) parts to be fitted.
BTW: those tail lights are his “spare” tail lights. Two (almost) new tail lights will be fitted when it is done!

Romans SA60 Carina coupe project
As you can see I’m very excited about his project finally coming together! Can’t wait to see the pictures of his car when its done!

Pictures taken from [

Carina Sightings: Red Carina GT-T TA63

March 9, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

A perfectly red Carina GT-T TA63 is always a beautiful sight:

Red Carina GT-T TA63
The Heroes Racing rims and hood vents are a nice touch to the whole package!

And it looks great grouped together with a pair of Celicas as well:

Red Carina GT-T TA63 and two Celicas
Both pictures have been taken at the Celica-day earlier this year.

Found at [Beginners Celica @ Minkara]

Carina Sightings: Norwegian millionaire Carinas

March 2, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

I found this hilarious Norwegian Lotto advertisement where someone mocks his dad with his good old Carina TA12:

When I would hit the lottery jackpot I’d certainly buy four Carinas as well! :D