Category: carina sightings (Page 18 of 37)

Carina Sightings: Ironmask’s worst enemy

November 24, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

The person who shot the pictures of this Carina AA63 GT-R is actually a Skyline DR30 fan. He went out to take a look at, as he calls it, the Iron Mask’s worst enemy:

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R
It does make sense in some way… Sure the Carina GT-R does looks (about as) intimidating, was produced in the same era, has roughly the same dimensions but it never came with power output near what the FJ20ET produced (the Carina TA63 GT-TR came nearer).

I must say that the metal surrounding on the headlights look very nice on the Carina!

The Hayashi Streets sure look great on this Carina:

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R
And am I seeing this right? Someone made the R in GT-R red? :D

Found at [Godsigma]

Carina Sightings: do you prefer Summer or Winter style?

November 17, 2010 / banpei / 6 Comments

The black Carina van is still being updated regularly. The owner just put it in winter mode (and to pass MOT), so how about a nice comparison between summer and winter styles?

Carina Van Summer Style
Versus

Carina Van Winter Style
Even though I think the steelies would complement the rat look I personally perfer the vintage wheels.
So which one do you prefer?

Carina Sightings: 30000 yen Carina GT-R bargain!

November 11, 2010 / banpei / 1 Comment

I guess this is one of these bargains you always hope for: a blue Carina GT-R AA63 for only 30000 yen! That is only 370 US dollars! ~~And (at time of posting) the auction only has 11 hours to go before it ends!~~My bad: it still has 12 days to go before it ends!

Carina GT-R AA63 by Garage Hana
This blue GT-R is currently for sale at Auctions Yahoo with an opening bid of 30000 yen! Why? Because it is covering the recycling costs! It is of course questionable if the seller actually will sell it for that price, but he specifically states “Only the highest bid is fine because it is inclusive of charge for recycling.“.

The Carina is a 1983 model, only covered 150k kilometers and was painted Alfa Romeo 147 midnight blue a few years ago. The deep dish white SSR mesh rims really complement the whole car.

Carina GT-R AA63 by Garage Hana
Apart from having a clean 4A-GE it also got (a non functioning) aircon and powersteering under the hood and powerwindows and central locking in its doors.

Not only does it have all those luxury options: it is also features a lightened AE101 flywheel, lowered with AE92 shocks and springs at the front and GAB shocks and cut springs at the rear. It also has a FRP bonnet and trunklid to save weight!

Carina GT-R AA63 by Garage Hana
IMO a real bargain for that price!

If you are still not convinced, here is a gallery of the Carina!

You can find the auction here: Midnight blue Carina AA63.

Carina Sightings: Ukrainian Carina GT

November 3, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

Two weeks ago Andrew sent me a picture of his Carina GT and asked me if I was interested in more pictures and info regarding it. Of course I am! ;)

Ukrainian Carina GT AA60
His Carina GT is a 3A-U powered GT model and was delivered originally to Krivoy Rog city in the Ukraine in 1982! I didn’t even know it was possible to buy anything else than Russian cars like the VAZ range. The 3A-U powered GT model is a bit puzzling, however the car has a GT cluster (with an oil pressure meter in the middle) and it was an export model so the designations could be different from the JDM badges.

When the first owner passed away the car remained in storage and was not abused untill his children were old enough to make some small damage at the front of the car:

Ukrainian Carina GT AA60
The car was sold and eventually Andrew bought it in 2007.

The car is in immaculate condition and almost looks as if it was new:

Ukrainian Carina GT AA60
However there is one modification made by Andrew: he moved the fender mirrors to the doors to improve visibility. I can imagine that: the fender mirrors are not well known for the area they cover to the rear. On the other hand: they are rare fender mirrors!

Here is another detail of when the car was imported:

Ukrainian Carina GT AA60
Apparently the Hyogo Toyota dealer made a deal with the USSR to import a batch of Toyotas. Nice to see this car survived that long! :)

Carina Sightings: Tucked away Carina GT-R

October 27, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

From the same place where I found the rustoseums earlier this week a red Carina AA63 GT-R tucked away in some shed:

Tucked away GT-R
It has late type taillights and panda rear bumper, so it is definitely a kouki model.

Found here

Carina Sightings: Finnish Carina with quad headlights

October 13, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

When I first saw this Carina TA60 sedan I thought the quad headlights were either originals (without the citylights) or taken from a Celica:

Carina TA60 with Audi quad headlights
But I was wrong: they are from an Audi Quattro!

If you look close enough you can see the original sidemarkers are missing their citylights:

Carina TA60 with Audi quad headlights
Now that’s creative! :)

Carina TA60 with Audi quad headlights
I’m curious how this project will turn out in the end!
You can find the porject here.

BTW: this color is the exact same color as my dad’s Carina wagon used to be!