Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Found this amazing photograph of a Carina TA67-V (or KA67-V) last week on AUTOnGRAPHIC:
The photo was taken at the Mooneyes event in Motegi.
Reminds me of the gold colored Carina van my dad used to own in the mid 80s…
Photo taken, owned and copyrighted by AUTOnGRAPHIC
It is very uncommon to see a video of a Carina drifting around on Suzuka circuit. It even less common to see a KA67V Carina van drifting around on that very same circuit!
Given the engine revs I presume the 5K engine is still lying under that bonnet: Continue reading
It is a very rare occasion to see Carina KA67 van headlights for sale at Auctions Yahoo, or even including a matching Corona YT140 taxi grille.
These headlights are the normal type headlights, so no HID replacement like the last one.
Is there any difference between the YT140 grille and the KA67 grille? Continue reading
James sent me a photo of his hot rodded Carina KA67 van. Very very good looking!
Hot rodded Carina KA67 van
The rims have been sold and he is currently waiting for his SSR wheelnuts to arrive and mount a set of…. SSR rims?
Last week I spotted an Abunai Deka episode featuring not only one Toyota Carina van, but actually three of those Carina vans! Enjoy the vans:
As you can see detective Takayama chases a silver Carina van, overtakes a white Carina van at 1:19 and finally stops the wrong silver Carina van in the end. Well, the leaf sprung Carina van was no match for the Suzuki motorcycle anyway… As far as I could tell at least two of the three vans were DX models, so either a TA67, KA67 or CA67.
Back in 1986 when the Abunai Deka series were shot (broadcasting was from 5th of October 1986 till 27th of September 1987) the Carina van was still sold, only to be discontinued in April 1988.
I was doubting if I should post this video in the Car Chase regular or the Carina Sightings. It (obviously) became the latter…
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