Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Ben R managed to find me a picture of the red Carina TA63 at the JCCA New Year Meeting 2012:
I love the 63 licenseplate!
It also enabled me to track down the owner: it is the Carina GT Turbo I posted before. Apart from driving around in the Carina TA63 he is also singing a lot in his videos. You can find “his blog here
Photo originally from Flickr and hattip to Ben R!
I *still* haven’t found a photo of this red Carina TA63 at the JCCA NYM 2012 in the background of this picture:
But that doesn’t matter: there was enough other material for me!
For instance this amazing shakotan Carina RA45:
I think it pops up every year at the JCCA NYM. ;)
Also this Corona T140 taxi is a NYM regular: Continue reading
Can you still make improvements to the Tomica Limited 1/64 scale Carina GT-R? Yes you can:
It is a modded version of the diecast: some tightly fitting mesh wheels and a huge front airdam have been added. Never thought someone would come up with that!
In the overview video of the Old Car New Year 2012 Awaji Island meeting (near Kobe) I found a pair of Carinas in the background: Continue reading
Just spotted a couple of videos of this Carina AA60 at the Manjung Drift event in Malaysia
And I love the big Carina banner! Where can I get one? Continue reading
As far as I understood hukkapätkä means “a piece of waste” in the Finnish language. Perhaps Isokorpi Customs was thinking about that when they created this monstrous Carina, but I have to disagree on that!
They probably used a Carina TA60 as the base of this monster and put something more powerful in it.
Judging from the gigantic intercooler it is probably something turbo-ed: Continue reading
I found a video of this beautiful Carina TA42 coupe from Sevastopol (Ukraine) on Youtube some time ago:
According to the title it is 3T-EU powered.
Another (blurry) night video of it: Continue reading
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