Remembering Japanese cars from the past
After last weeks puppy saving Carina with Sonny Chiba we have two other Carina videos featuring him:
The Sporty Special looks like a great car to me! Could it have been a special version of the Carina GT coupe TA45 or was it just the ordinary LX or XT?
How about Sonny Chiba driving the Swiss Alps then?
Lovely sight to see the Carina coupe driving through the mountains! Even the Swiss Rescue give their thumbs up!
Two years ago I posted the puppy saving Carina commercial and unfortunately it disappeared due to copyright violations… (why?!)
Lucky enough Youtube CM poster mycub posted it once again:
And once again Sonny Chiba saves the day!
I haven’t seen many red Carinas so far… Of course I’ve seen the infamous Carina Firevan, but not a factory red Carina…
About three weeks ago Kyteler sent me an email about a red Carina for sale at the Toyspeed.org.nz forums:
Red 1985 Carina GTR AA63
Unfortunately I could not get in touch with the seller since the forums need approval of your account and I still haven’t been approved so far… :(
Lucky enough Roman posted the same Carina at AEU86.
The Carina itself looks good if you consider its age and mileage:
Red 1985 Carina GTR AA63
The car is already 24 years old and an average of 11k kilometers per year. The car travelled 270000 kilometers so far!
Red 1985 Carina GTR AA63
According to the seller the hood (and fender) have been repainted prior to his ownership. Most probably with a roller or a brush…
The engine may look good from the outside:
Red 1985 Carina GTR AA63
But from the inside it is not that great anymore: blue smoke is seen when cold started or put under stress. In other words: either rebuild the engine or put in a new one. I’d go for the new one: rebuilding a 270k engine doesn’t make much sense. ;)
Red 1985 Carina GTR AA63
The interior still looks amazing after 270k!
If you consider all the extras (14×6 Work Equip 01 wheels, torsen LSD, 4 new Monroe Shocks and a spare boot lid) the car is not that expensive for an asking price of $2000! (2800 NZ dollars)
Yesterday I spotted this amazing all original Toyota Carina GT-TR sedan on Goo-net:
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
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
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
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
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
I finally found some video footage of the Carina AA63 I spotted each year at the MSC Inland Sea round!!
The car is not doing bad at all but he still lacks something. He misses the apex with a meter and doesn’t really keep his angle right, so it is just that his lines are a bit too wide I guess…
From its appearance it really looks like an 80s grachan zokusha! It has got an oil cooler sticking under its front bumper, it has the wild painted colors and a big banner on the front screen!
This is the car competing in round 12 in 2006:
Toyota Carina AA63 at MSC Inland Sea
Apparently the guy is local: I’ve never seen him competing outside the Inland Sea rounds. And the nice thing is he competes in that round every year!
This is the car competing in round 8 in 2007:
Toyota Carina AA63 at MSC Inland Sea
He always enters the Expert SD class but never manages to qualify for the best 12…
This is the car competing in round 4 in 2008:
Toyota Carina AA63 at MSC Inland Sea
Unfortunately there is still no complete photo page of round 11 of 2009, so we will have to wait for the 2009 photo a bit longer I guess…
Google Streetview has been updated in the Netherlands yesterday. Of course I checked some familiar spots first including my house.
For some reason the images of my house are mixed up with the images of a street right next to it. Fortunately enough there are images of my Carina on Streetview:
My Toyota Carina TA60 on Google Streetview
Unfortunately this is the only “good” picture I could capture since the other images were from the street next to mine…
I also found some of the Down on the Street entries as well, so I’ll post them next Sunday.
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