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Carina Sightings: Another AA63 drift missle

May 18, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

Two weeks ago I posted up a relatively cheap Carina AA63 drift missile only to discover another on Auctions Yahoo two weeks later!

Another Carina AA63 drift missile
Its current price is 50000 yen (615 US dollars) but reserve hasn’t been met yet. At least this Carina is still in one piece so it could get a little bit more pricier than this.

The engine is quite impressive: a 4AGE 16 valve with independent throttle bodies!

Another Carina AA63 drift missile
To make it all work smooth a set of Toda cams, aftermarket piggyback ECU and a lightened flywheel have been installed.

Other modifications are a set of SSR Longchamp XR4s, camber plates and front tower bar and on the inside a set of Recaros to make you feel a bit more comfortable in those loooong corners:

Another Carina AA63 drift missile
This missile seems to be in a bit better shape than the other one, but this one has had less extensive modifications.

In case you want to bid on it, you still have five days left and can find the action here: Carina AA63 at Auctions Yahoo.
If you like something different: the seller also has a few shakotan and bosozoku style rides for sale!

Carina Sightings: Formula Meshed Carina AA63 GT-R

May 11, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

This is exactly what I would like my Carina to look like: a lowered AA63 with deep dish SSR Formula Mesh rims and a big front air dam!

Carina AA63 GT-R on SSR Formula Mesh
The rims alone would set me back another 1500 euros, so I think it will be dreaming/drooling on this picture for the upcoming years… ;)

On the rear the kouki tail lights and a double exhaust tip:

Carina AA63 GT-R on SSR Formula Mesh

And most interesting is this GT-R badge:

Carina AA63 GT-R on SSR Formula Mesh
A red R, just as it is done on the Nissan GT-R logos. Might be an option to paint my own GT-TR badge as well. But what color should I choose for the T then?

Found at [Godsigma_2050]

Carina Sightings: AA63 drift missile

May 4, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

I found a Carina GT-R bargain on auctions yahoo: it has many modifications, RS Watanabe and Hayashi Street rims and only costs 70000 yen!

Carina AA63 drift missile
From this side it looks quite okay…

But from this angle:

Carina AA63 drift missile
It looks like sh*t!
The tail lights already have been swapped for late type tail lights and even if you are handy with a hammer and chisel you can’t make much of it anymore…

On the positive side: many modifications have been made to this car, including some nice goodies under the hood:

Carina AA63 drift missile
A tower brace, carburetors, 4-1 performance header, trunk battery, MSD ignition, high lift cams and a balanced crankshaft. Apart from that it has camberplates, a roll cage, FC Calipers, bucket seats and many more modifications!

I’d personally say the car is definitely worth it for spares if you can manage to pay the shipping costs. ;)
You can find the auction here: Carina drift missile on Auctions Yahoo

Carina Sightings: big spoilered and scooped Carina GT-R

April 27, 2011 / banpei / 1 Comment

Even though this Carina GT-R has the biggest spoiler I’ve seen so far (apart from the GT spoilers) and a ridiculous scoop on its bonnet it is still looking great. Must be the periodically correct wheels that match up with the spoiler and scoop.

Carina AA63 with big spoiler and hood scoop
Unfortunately the picture is too blurry to make out what these rims actually are. They look a bit like SSR Mk III rims but at the same time they could very well be SSR Star Formula or Work Excel rims…

Found at [masa_GT-B]

Carina Sightings: Russian Carina hardtop coupe TA42

April 6, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

In the same thread as yesterdays Carina coupe there was a link to someones 1981 JDM Carina hardtop coupe TA42.

Russian Toyota Carina TA42
Even though the Carina is missing some (small) pieces of trim it still appears to be in quite decent state!

Especially the interior still looks great:

Russian Toyota Carina TA42
Here you can clearly see the difference between a coupe and a hardtop coupe: it doesn’t feature a B-pillar and therefore it is a hardtop. Unfortunately the hardtops never made it to the A60 series. :(

I love the weird thin tail-lights of the coupes:

Russian Toyota Carina TA42

And here is another thing that never made it outside Japan:

Russian Toyota Carina TA42 with fuel injected 3T-U
A fuel injected 1800cc 3T-EU engine that makes 105hp. An additional 20hp compared to the carburetted 3T we got in Europe and it certainly has a better (and cleaner) breath as well and comparable to the 2 liter 18R engines that could be found in the European Celica XTs.

IMO a very nice Carina and I would swap my Carina for this one any day!

Found at [Carina TA42 @ drom.ru]

Carina Sightings: Belgian pre-production Carina GL

March 30, 2011 / banpei / 1 Comment

I was going through the collection of Carina brochure pictures and one small detail stroke me on this brochure:

Belgian Carina GL
The Carina in the bottom picture is a Belgian Carina TA60 GL. Now that isn’t that weird, but the brochure is Japanese and dated as S56-9 (September 1981). The Carina A60 lineup was released in September 1981 so the Carina on the brochure must have been a pre-production model.

This was done by Toyota before, just like the Levin and Trueno AE86 European tour in 1983 but we’re talking about a left hand drive Carina here.

Also in this picture you can see the front of the car is actually featuring quad headlights:

Belgian Carina GL
Now it gets even more confusing and more and more questions arise!
Why did they feature a LHD pre-production car in Belgium in a JDM brochure? And why does it have quad headlights while all European models did only have the normal headlights? And where is that car now?