Remembering Japanese cars from the past
Came across this nice advertisement of the RS Wantanabe on Youtube:
It features a Nissan (Datsun) Bluebird 910 coupe driving a rally and the wheels are the famous 8 spoke RS (Racing Service) Wantanabe rims, which we all know from Initial D. ;)
Nice to see those rims being advertised back in the 80s!
Found these 15 inch Carina GT-R rims (also featured on the Celica Supra and Soarer) on auctions.yahoo.co.jp which look exactly like mine:
Immaculate Carina GT-R rims on auctions.yahoo.co.jp
Details of the Carina GT-R rims on auctions.yahoo.co.jp
Clean Carina GT-R rims on auctions.yahoo.co.jp
These rims are 15 inch, ET +20 so they are actually exactly the same as mine! I took the gamble that the 15 inch Celica Supra rims would be the same size/offset as the Carina and apparently I guessed right!
They cost about 37000 yen (300 euros) so I think the price of these rims are spot on!
On a Celica Supra forum I found a topic about a Japanese Celica XX Meeting. For those who don’t know the Celica XX: outside Japan it got sold as the Celica Supra MK2, also known as the MA6x and the GA6x. So it shares the same platform as the Celica and Carina A6.
I this topic I found a picture of one Celica XX wearing Toyota Soarer MK1 rims:
Normally I would have called them “Celica Supra rims”, just like I did with my rims on the Carina. Technically they aren’t Celica Supra rims since they featured on the Celica, Carina and Soarer as well.
Anyway, as you can see the Soarer rims have the Soarer logo (a griffin) on the centercaps instead of the Toyota logo on the normal rims. Of course I love to have these centercaps on my rims as well! Anyone got a set of those centercaps lying around?? ;)
The Celica Supra rims are almost on the car! I dropped them off at the address where the tires were delivered and I could pick them up three hours later (at 20:30) with tires and fully balanced. :)
I didn’t have the time yet to put them on the car or even shoot some pictures of the rims, but that will be very soon! Then we’re going to see how much the car resembles the Carina GT-R
Edit: now with picture!
I ordered the tires through Delticom (autobandenmarkt.nl) for the Celica Supra rims yesterday. Falken ZIEX ZE-912 became my choice since I had some good experience with the Falken ZIEX ZE-512 under my Trueno.
This is how they look:
The ZE-912 are asymmetric tires which should be a slight improvement above the ZE-512.
Please note that these tires are bought for grip since my Carina is not really a powerhouse, so what use would it be to buy something else than grip tires? ;)
Yesterday I finally brought the Celica Supra rims to Hil Coatings to get them sandblasted and powdercoated.
They are going to be silver-grey, just like the OEM rims of the Carina AA63 GT-R had:
I can pick them up next thursday!! :)
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