Tag: carina van (Page 3 of 4)

Carina Sightings: Carina Vans in Abunai Deka chase

June 2, 2010 / banpei / 0 Comments

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…

Carina Sightings: Carina van TA67 rustoseum

April 14, 2010 / banpei / 3 Comments

In one of my rustoseum searches I came across a very sorry looking Carina TA67 van left behind in the middle of nowhere:

Toyota Carina TA67 rustoseum
All windows are gone, roof looks like it could serve as a pool and the inside looks like a farmer used it as a shed. :D

Toyota Carina TA67 rustoseum
You can see big dents on the side and the side mouldings are missing everywhere except on the rear door.

There are two things I would actually have wanted from this Carina: the round headlights (I can at least start a collection then!) and the wind deflectors.

Carina sightings: the famous Carina firevan part 3

May 6, 2009 / banpei / 2 Comments

By chance I stumbled upon a picture of the famous Carina firevan and by chance I looked if the source of the picture also had more pictures of the car.

SA60 Carina firevan on a expressway

Lucky enough the source did: it also featured a short video of the firevan starting its Beams 3SGE engine, so you can now listen to that orchestra of 4 trumpets!

The owner is playing some nice music! :D

SA60 Carina firevan at car meeting
This picture is shot at the same meeting as the first picture of my first posting about the firevan. The pattern of the water is the same and probably the rain stopped after a while and things dried up after that. ;)

SA60 Carina firevan in the rain
I have no idea why this picture was taken… Maybe these three pictures and video belong to a bigger set of pictures taken at a car meeting?

You can find the other two postings about the firevan here:
Carina firevan Part 1
Carina firevan Part 2

Carina Sightings: Danish Carina tractor

November 12, 2008 / banpei / 0 Comments

Okay okay… I know… I’m slacking here, but today I’m ill and feel like I really need to go to bed EARLY. Something that did not happen in the past few days. :(

Anyway, here it is: the Danish Carina van tractor

I was probably already beyond saving anyway, but still… I would at least tried to save it! :(

Carina Sightings: Count the carina sedans at the Japan A60 2008 meeting

October 16, 2008 / banpei / 1 Comment

This week another counting sighting:

Can you count all the Carina sedans in this picture?? ;)

At first I thought of counting the vans, but actually that would be too easy. Coupes would be a bit harder, but they are less in numbers, so that’s why I decided upon the sedans. :P

I counted 13 here… :)

How much did you count?

Carina sightings: the famous Carina firevan part 2

September 13, 2008 / banpei / 0 Comments

Just found the profile of the owner of the third Carina Van (the black one) in this picture:
Carina Firevan next to other Carina vans
So more about that black Carina Van in a later Carina sighting. ;)
I also found out all three Carinas are indeed all vans! I noticed the front bumpers having their indicator lights inside the bumper! That was only delivered to the Carina Van, so all of them must be vans! I corrected this in the other topic as well.

About the Firevan: I found in the profile of that third owner some photos and additional descriptions of the Firevan!! :)

3SG & 6-speed mission
Butterfly throttle until you rub
It is good spell of engine

Don’t mind the spelling of this Google translation, but I think the message is clear: 3SGE with ITB and 6 speed transmission.

And ever wondered how stretched those tires are? Or actually how far you can stretch tires?

That’s how it looks if you put a 155 wide tire on a 9J rim! That’s real Shakotan! ;)

Anyone got more pictures of the Firevan for Part 3? :P