Remembering Japanese cars from the past
I found these two videos on Youtube. In the first two Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 sedans are chasing a Nissan Silvia S15:
While in the second (third of the video set ;) they get chased by a different Nissan Silvia S15 and a Nissan 180sx:
I have no idea what NCML is, but I suspect that NCML is an abbreviation for one of the circuits in Japan and this event was held on 15th of september 2008. Anyone knows what NCML is??
Some time ago I already blogged about a Carina GT-R in Peru. I probably now found the sales adverts for it:
http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.pe/MPE-4685754-vendo-gtr1985-_JM
http://articulo.mercadolibre.com.pe/MPE-4685639-vendo-toyota-carina-gtr-_JM
This is how the car looked:
It states that the Carina GT-R was located in Lima and that it only drove 9000 and 10000 kilometers. Looking at the engine, diff, interior and the state of the car I doubt that the last fact could be true. Should rather be 190000 and 200000 kilometers. ;)
As you can see the diff housing is leaking:
And the engine is quite used and dirty:
And the steering wheel looks shabby, so it is quite used
According to the translation of this advertisement it is supposed to be owned by the 80 year old grandpa of the seller. Yeah right… ;)
Anyway, they asked 3999 (I assume Peru Nuevos Soles) for it which is roughly 1000 euros. Not bad! I would have bought it for that price!!
Look at what I found on Photobucket:
A white Toyota Carina DX TA60 which looks like new!!
I wonder what the colorcode would be… Maybe it has the same code as mine and features also an automatic… Maybe I can swap the car during the night and nobody notices!! ;)
This week another counting sighting:
Can you count all the Carina sedans in this picture?? ;)
At first I thought of counting the vans, but actually that would be too easy. Coupes would be a bit harder, but they are less in numbers, so that’s why I decided upon the sedans. :P
I counted 13 here… :)
How much did you count?
I found this recent video of a dragrace on 24th of august 2008 with a final between a Volkswagen Polo (called Gol here) and a Toyota Carina AA63 in Peru.
17 seconds Final Round August 24 2008 CADEPOR
Spoiler: unfortunately the Carina AA63 does not win this race (0.6 seconds) but I think it is very nice to see that the AA63 actually made it to other countries than Japan!
As you can see in the picture below it is a LHD car, so it is not imported from Japan:
The side of the car has the “Twincam 16” writings on it, it has 15 inch Celica Supra rims and the rear lights look kouki to me. In other words: this a genuine left hand drive AA63 outside Japan. :)
This week another short sighting:
Can you count all the Carinas in this picture?? ;)
I came to a total of 34 here, but I did not count the ones behind the group of people in the front row…
The extra difficulty is that this picture also contains Celica A60s (Supra MK2 is called Celica XX in Japan) and it is sometimes hard to distinguish a Carina Coupe rear from a Celica Liftback in the second or fourth rows.
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