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Baby-blue Toyota Carina GT-R AA63 kaido racer – Carina Sightings

February 7, 2024 / banpei / 0 Comments

I love to browse stuff for sale on Yahoo Auctions on a weekly basis and every now and then I find interesting stuff, like for instance the TRD Sports Accessories brochure. This week I encountered this baby-blue Toyota Carina GT-R kaido racer that is for sale for a mere 1.6M yen! (10K euros, 11K dollars)

Baby blue Toyota Carina GT-R kaido racer

Weak spot for Kaido Racers

I have a weak spot for kaido racers (also known as zokusha), especially if they are done well. This one is done very well, looking at the amount of work that went into this. First of all, you will notice the Levin AE86 front bumper has been widened and made its way to the front of this Carina. It’s not clear why they didn’t use an AE92 bumper as that would fit without any issues. Then the lip underneath the bumper makes it look more like a zokusha.

Carina Sightings: Toyota Carina GT meeting in 1994

Carina Sightings: 1994 Toyota Carina GT meeting

January 3, 2015 / banpei / 0 Comments

What would a Toyota Carina GT meeting look like in 1994? Well these photos were taken in 1994 at a Carina meeting somewhere in the Saitama Prefecture:

All Carinas are GT models and all except one (RA45 18R-G) are 2T-G powered. How bizarre is that? I would say that’s pretty epic as the 2T-G versions of the third generation are now close to extinct!

The big lineup really looks great: Continue reading

Auto Holiday: Let’s have a ball!

December 20, 2011 / banpei / 1 Comment

The cover of the March 1983 issue of Auto Holiday magazine looks like a great deal of fun!

The magazine for car and leasure for youngs in the early 80s is clearly promising their readers to have a ball. ;)

Especially if you look at the kaido racer contents on the inside: Continue reading

JCS2011: Super rare Carina hardtop coupe TA17!

July 5, 2011 / banpei / 3 Comments

This posting had a high Sonny Chiba feeling: this restored Carina hardtop coupe TA17 is exactly the same model as Sonny Chiba used in the famous commercial!

Toyota Carina hardtop coupe TA17 @ JCS2011
The owner and his buddies came all the way from Finland to the Goodwood Festival of Speed and inbetween they stopped by at the JCS2011!

Just look at how beautiful those tail lights are sunken deeply into the bodywork!

Toyota Carina hardtop coupe TA17 @ JCS2011
Also imagine what potential watertrap that could be!

Toyota Carina hardtop coupe TA17 @ JCS2011
The Carina TA17 hardtop coupe has been imported from Japan and it, as the owner described it, is his dreamcar and he simply had to. He does own another 10 Toyotas from which 3 are Carina TA14s.

Last but not least: this is how great fender mirrors are:

Toyota Carina hardtop coupe TA17 @ JCS2011
A very high coolness factor but a limited angle of view…

Familiy Album Treasures: Mad camber on a Carina TA17

February 8, 2011 / banpei / 2 Comments

I liked the Carina hardtop coupe TA17 in last treasure so much that I found another one:

Hayashi Streets with mad camber
Clearly a picture taken from someones 70s photo album: a nice Carina TA17 hardtop coupe sitting on a set of 13 inch Hayashi Streets with baloon tires and even the front wheels have some camber. (would be demon camber in those days!)

Found at [Evo golfers @ Minkara]

Family Album Treasures: Kyusha style in the 90s!

January 29, 2011 / banpei / 0 Comments

Not only the Carina TA17 is entirely in kyusha style, its owner as well:

Kyusha style Carina TA17 in the 90s
Don’t be fooled by the 8 in the date: that most probably stands for the 8th year of the Heisei period.

Found at [Pikawo]