Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Apart from automotive blogs I regularly read some great photoblogs like Art pants (Will Roege and Lindbergh) and Encounters as well. Also Beeoneoneoh is a great cross-over between the two.
Being greatly inspired by the latter this week and already having plans to put my artsy-fartsy pictures somewhere for months I enroled on Flickr.
Pictures like these will turn up there:
Not particularly pictures I’d normally post here. ;)
I came across these great drawings by reallyloud on Flickr:
Scrapped green Datsun Sunny 120Y
Most of his drawings are done during the 90s and made available through his flickr sets. This Celica is done really fantastic:
Rusted Toyota Celica TA22
Also most of his other drawings consist of piles of cars and it is some how a bit of a game to recognize them all!
And this drawing of a Datsun 100a really reminds me of the red Cherry my stepdad used to own in the early 80s:
Deteriorated Datsun Cherry 100a
You can find the whole set here:
Scrapyard drawings on Flickr
It mostly contains Japanese tin, but you can see some British metal (rust?) in there as well.
I found this awful Carina Coupe on Flickr. The owner (Long Gone Silver) put some really awful 16 inch bling rims under the coupe, some vinyl flame decal, double antennas, taxi blocks stripe and the most hideous chin and boot spoiler!
Awful Carina Coupe with the most hideous chin spoiler
Awful Carina Coupe with the most hideous boot spoiler and double antenna
Funny thing is that I didn’t know some of the TA60 Coupes actually were delivered with independent rear suspension (IRS):
Carina Coupe with independent rear suspension
And, if I’m correct, there is a Carina station van in the background. ;)
It is sad to see such a waste… But then again, this car is in itself already a parody of itself. ;)
Another Carina Sighting from Flickr:
Unknown wrecked Carina sedan
Since the majority of the Carina sedans were all 2T engined I presume this is also a TA60 sedan. Since it’s got no headrests in the rear bench it is the same grade as mine: DX. Unfortunately there is no licenseplate so we can’t even guess where the car is from… A lot of guesswork here…
Anyway, the car has been wrecked: it got a good bump on the front and left fender and the right rear got a small dent as well. The interior looks like the car has been driven by the Swamp Thing himself. It probably wasn’t saved after these three pictures…
Would it have been in an accident or did a wannabe drifter loose control of the car when loosing traction (open diff!) on a muddy road?
I found this Carina GL TA60 on Flickr and I suspect it is from Austria. I really like the coloring by the photographer and I think it is called Fuji Colorshift (it is in an album called like that).
Apparently the GL had a better trim than the DX: it features a backseat with raised headrests instead of the flat backseat my DX has…
Perhaps I should look for a GL backseat in Austria then! :)
I found this trashed Carina in Japan on Flickr.
It features Advans and an OEM boot spoiler and a black stripe on the boot, so probably this is a Zenki GT model, only question is if it is a TA61 or RA63 GT model.
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