Tag: Carina sightings (Page 20 of 39)

Carina Sightings: drifting in the nineties

December 22, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

A Carina AA63 drifting on Ebisu Circuit West Course followed by two zenki Levin AE86s, I couldn’t have thought of a better lineup myself!

Carina drifting in the nineties
The picture was taken in the mid nineties when drifting was taking a huge ramp-up and Initial D just skyrocketed in sales. The AE86 was suddenly a very popular car and the Carina was a very undervalued car. Lucky enough someone got the sanity to buy this AA63 and drift the hell out of it!

Small detail: the last AE86 was powered by a 7A-GZE. Pretty radical mod back in those days! ;)

Found at [California Expedition]

Carina week: Carinas (and a Corona) at MSC

December 21, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I already posted about the Corona/Carina/Carina trio competing in the MSC tandem drift almost a year ago. A few weeks back Killian O’Brien posted this promo video of the 2007 MSC DVD on the Banpei.net page featuring them as well:

If you watch closely you can see them drift by a couple of times! :)

Carina Sightings: White Carina JZA63

December 16, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

I posted this Carina JZA63 half a year ago but still it intrigues me: it is such a monster and just imagine its potential!

Toyota Carina JZA63

Found at [USDM???JDM???]

Carina Sightings: Shakotan Carina RA45

December 8, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

I already posted this video in the Bosozoku Style Meeting Monday. The video contains a groundscrapingly low Carina RA45 on deep dished steelies at an Odaiba meeting earlier this month. The Carina clearly has some challenge with the conquering the pavement:

And that sound: lovely!

Carina Sightings: Impulse AA63 Carina coupe

December 1, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

From the front this Carina coupe is almost the spitting image of last weeks tekamens rival but you can see after the windhield it is clearly a coupe and not a sedan:

Carina AA63 coupe by Impulse
This Carina was tuned by Impulse (also known for their excellent AE86s) and the bigport 4AGE engine was swapped for a later type 20 valve blacktop. Also the deep dish gold mesh rims suit the coupe well.

As you can see they rerouted the waterlines, heatwrapped spaghetti exhaust headers and direct spark ignition:

Carina AA63 coupe by Impulse
Nice job! :)

Found at [Impulse]

Carina Sightings: Ironmask’s worst enemy

November 24, 2010 / banpei / 2 Comments

The person who shot the pictures of this Carina AA63 GT-R is actually a Skyline DR30 fan. He went out to take a look at, as he calls it, the Iron Mask’s worst enemy:

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R
It does make sense in some way… Sure the Carina GT-R does looks (about as) intimidating, was produced in the same era, has roughly the same dimensions but it never came with power output near what the FJ20ET produced (the Carina TA63 GT-TR came nearer).

I must say that the metal surrounding on the headlights look very nice on the Carina!

The Hayashi Streets sure look great on this Carina:

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R

Iron Mask enemy: Carina AA63 GT-R
And am I seeing this right? Someone made the R in GT-R red? :D

Found at [Godsigma]