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Carina Sightings: Karl Skewes Carina AA60 Coupe

June 17, 2009 / / 1 Comment

I found some old videos of Karl Skewes (Garage Dori) drifting a Carina Coupe AA60 in the D1NZ. I presume the car either once started out as an AA60 or a TA60 and got converted to a smallport 4AGE. The car itself has a solid axle (upgraded with hilux diff) so that part was not upgraded to IRS.

As you can see the Carina has great cornering abilities:

And it is powerful enough to manji on the straight:

And in this video it looks like his Carina is an easy car to drift:

Now if only my Carina would do that this easy! :o

I also found some nice pics on the Garage Dori website:
Karl Skewes's Toyota Carina AA60 with Hosinos at the rear!
Karl Skewes’s Toyota Carina AA60 with Hosinos at the rear!
Looks like a very tough car to me with those matte black Work Equips at the front and the Hoshinos at the rear!

Karl Skewes drifting with his Toyota Carina AA60
Karl Skewes drifting with his Toyota Carina AA60

From what I understood was that back then Karl’s number one car was an orange AE70 (he used that in D1NZ 2005 round 3) but for some reason he used the AA60 for the fourth round. He still managed to get 8th with the Carina during that fourth round! :)

Carina Sightings: Carina TA62 Coupe in Czech republic

June 3, 2009 / / 0 Comments

Today 86ers.org posted about the Czech duo Franz & Tonda. Franz & Tonda have a nice garage full of old JDM tin, like a Corolla TE71, a (almost deteriorated) AE86, a 280ZX, a Toyota MR2, a widebody Mitsubishi Starion and a TA62 Carina Coupe! :)

Carina Coupe TA62 owned by Franz & Tonda
Carina Coupe TA62 owned by Franz & Tonda

It turns out to be a familiar Carina for me: Franz already visited AEU86 in the past!

Carina Coupe TA62 owned by Franz & Tonda
Carina Coupe TA62 owned by Franz & Tonda

From the pictures the Carina still looks very nice, but if I understood Franz correctly the bottom is very very rusted and the interior is not too wel either. I really hope Franz and Tonda have time to restore the TA62 and stop its deterioration!

Carina Coupe TA62 owned by Franz & Tonda
Carina Coupe TA62 owned by Franz & Tonda

As you can see from the stance of the rear wheels the TA62 has the same live axle as the TA60 (and the AE86) and does not feature the IRS as found on the TA63 or AA63 (Japanese GT models). Nevertheless it would look pretty wild with some deep dish Hayashi Streets on it! :)

Single carb 3T engine
Single carb 3T engine

From the pictures of the engine I can see it has a single carburetor so it is featuring the 1.8 3T. Basically the same engine as the 2T in my Carina, but then with 0.2 liter more displacement than mine. Also a 3TC has a dual carb setup, so that difference is easy to spot. ;)

If you are curious to the other cars of their collection, you can find them here:
86ers visit to Franz and Tonda

Carina Sightings: The Assembly – Never Never

May 20, 2009 / / 0 Comments

From time to time I still look at the Internet Movie Car Database to see if there are listed new entries for the Toyota Carina. This is not a new entry, but I finally found the original video clip. ;)

The music video of Never Never by The Assembly was shot in 1983 and was a one hit wonder: Vince Clarke (ex Yazoo) formed a new band and teamed up with Fergal Sharkey (Undertones). The band only created one single album with only one single hitsong. This song also featured on Grand Theft Auto – Vice City Stories on one of the radio stations.

The clip features a windmill, some trailerpark background and Fergal Sharkey walking around. On the IMCDB I found two screenshots of Toyota different Carinas:
White Toyota Carina TA60 van
White Toyota Carina TA60 van

The first screenshot is at 1:19, but I’m unable to find the second screenshot. The child in the foreground is clearly the same as the one in the music video but I could not find this shot after watching it three times in a row… I even downloaded the flashmovie and watched the clip 6 or 7 times over and over again. I also watched the movie skipping forward and backwards around transitions.

Black Toyota Carina TA60 front
Black Toyota Carina TA60 front

Then I searched the internet for other versions of this song, but all of them have the same length and I had to give up. So after watching this music video for a total 10 times now I can’t stand that damn song anymore! :X

Anyone else volunteer to search for that frame? :D

Carina Sightings: my Carina within 5 years?

May 13, 2009 / / 0 Comments

I was wondering if this white Toyota Carina TA60 I found on autoscout24 is actually my very own Carina within 5 years…

On this picture the car looks quite okay:
This Carina TA60 could be the brother of mine
This Carina TA60 could be the brother of mine

But when looking more into the details it gets less beautiful:
Rust on the right front fender
Rust on the right front fender

And even worse:
Trunk decal is almost rusting off!
Trunk decal is almost rusting off!

And this view looks very very familiar:
Nice clean dashboard and a 5 speed gearbox
Nice clean dashboard and the car has a 5 speed gearbox

And even the interior is exactly the same as mine (but then a bit more worn):
Stained seats and dirty carpets
Stained seats and dirty carpets

So it is a white Carina TA60 with white/black interior and the only difference between this one and my own are the 5 speed gearbox and the rusty spots… So the big question is: am I seeing the future here? ;)

Carina sightings: the famous Carina firevan part 3

May 6, 2009 / / 2 Comments

By chance I stumbled upon a picture of the famous Carina firevan and by chance I looked if the source of the picture also had more pictures of the car.
SA60 Carina firevan on a expressway
SA60 Carina firevan on a expressway

Lucky enough the source did: it also featured a short video of the firevan starting its Beams 3SGE engine, so you can now listen to that orchestra of 4 trumpets!

The owner is playing some nice music! :D

SA60 Carina firevan at car meeting
SA60 Carina firevan at car meeting
This picture is shot at the same meeting as the first picture of my first posting about the firevan. The pattern of the water is the same and probably the rain stopped after a while and things dried up after that. ;)

SA60 Carina firevan in the rain
SA60 Carina firevan in the rain
I have no idea why this picture was taken… Maybe these three pictures and video belong to a bigger set of pictures taken at a car meeting?

You can find the other two postings about the firevan here:
Carina firevan Part 1
Carina firevan Part 2

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