'94 Carina E GLi

[tooSavvy]

I *think you'll find it's just a single belt wheel... DOHC powered by Cogs ✔️

Well bortedd 🎉

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[danthecapriman]

 Very nice! Not seen one of these in some time.

Back when I worked in the garage we had a regular customer with an L reg one, also in white. It was always a solid car but it was always dirty. One day it came in for service & MOT (which it breezed) so I cracked into the service. Afterwords I looked at it and thought ‘you know what, this thing deserves better’ so I took it out of the workshop and gave it a wash and valeted the inside!!

The owner couldn’t believe it when he came to collect it! He said he bought it just as a run around and wasn’t overly bothered about it so just left it but he couldn’t believe how well it came up after a good clean up. 
A few days later I had a letter waiting for me as I came into work. From the owner, just saying how nice it was to drop off his car for a normal job only to come pick it up and find someone had gone the extra mile and done so much they didn’t have to do. I’ve still got that letter somewhere!

Anyway, look after yours. It’s quite possibly the only car you’d need in a lifetime if you can stop it rusting.

[Snipes]

2 hours ago, tooSavvy said:

I *think you'll find it's just a single belt wheel... DOHC powered by Cogs ✔️

Well bortedd 🎉

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So I see

[wesacosa]

Spotted in the wild 

 

[Snipes]

"Paul Radisheesh"

[Snipes]

Haynes book of dark magic has arrived, so I'm running out of excuses to avoid working on this old heap.

Put the disc lock on maybe twice and I'm already fully sick of it. Such a faff it's like a humiliation ritual. 

[mat777]

4 minutes ago, Snipes said:

Put the disc lock on maybe twice and I'm already fully sick of it. Such a faff it's like a humiliation ritual. 

I feel the same about my Clutch Claw but you can guarantee the one time you don't bother is the one time it gets lifted.....

 

If it cheers you up, here's a special "period style" photo I took today

[wesacosa]

2 minutes ago, mat777 said:

I feel the same about my Clutch Claw but you can guarantee the one time you don't bother is the one time it gets lifted.....

 

If it cheers you up, here's a special "period style" photo I took today

According to the Stories from Super Touring podcast I was listening too recently Murry Walker ripped that famous line off from someone else

[tooSavvy]

I am, of course, biased...

ToMM©

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[Snipes]

Ready for another day at Brands. 

[wesacosa]

1 hour ago, Snipes said:

Ready for another day at Brands. 

it's even hotter than yesterday 😬

[Snipes]

3 hours ago, wesacosa said:

it's even hotter than yesterday 😬

Yes. I've had to keep covered up as I'm plenty sun burnt already. 

[Snipes]

The Carina and my Dacia have finally met. Apparently they're not talking to one another, but at least they're not fighting. 

[grogee]

48 minutes ago, Snipes said:

The Carina and my Dacia have finally met. Apparently they're not talking to one another, but at least they're not fighting. 

Ha, this reminds me of when we introduced a kitten into our house which already had two brother cats... 

[BorniteIdentity]

On 21/06/2025 at 18:45, Snipes said:

I use to LARP as a Carina E licker on line for fun but this guy is something else. There's a whole yard of time expired Carinas, Camrys, Corollas and Avensis.

I tried to buy that gold one earlier in the year but was told it was sold. Buyer must have backed out.

How did you find the guy? Affable? 

[High Jetter]

5 hours ago, Snipes said:

The Carina and my Dacia have finally met. Apparently they're not talking to one another, but at least they're not fighting. 

They're not animals, hate to disappoint 😄

[Snipes]

On 29/06/2025 at 21:56, BorniteIdentity said:

I tried to buy that gold one earlier in the year but was told it was sold. Buyer must have backed out.

How did you find the guy? Affable? 

Yeah he was friendly a chap.

Meantime, I'm compiling something of a "to-do" list;

• Service (Filters, oil, plugs, maybe leads)
• Cambelt, including aux belts, water pump and coolant change
• Address advisories for knackered CV boot and engine oil leak
• Tyres
• Eventually, "paint" and undersealing.

In that order in case I screw something up (somewhat likely) and it's getting spendy. Just the tyres are £75+vat each for middling Falkens, and it may have to be four as I'm fairly sure one of the "good" fronts has a slow puncture. I'll be buying tools too, such as a jack and stands.

[Noel Tidybeard]

once upon a time all the pool cars were out

i was required to go to one of our other sites

they got me the factory managers carina e

it had a 6 disc cd player, player, player, player

 

oh yes and 172 hrs pwrs 😁

we got to west brom quite quickly & Alan was very quiet😈

[Spottedlaurel]

7 hours ago, Snipes said:

Just the tyres are £75+vat each for middling Falkens, and it may have to be four as I'm fairly sure one of the "good" fronts has a slow puncture.

I had a set of Falkens fitted to my estate. They're good but look oddly skinny on the wheels.

Ideally I wanted to go for Uniroyals, but they were on longer delivery.

[wesacosa]

some info from FB on the BTCC Carina at STP3 at the weekend 

 

[Snipes]

I wonderd about the hubs as I was pretty sure the BTCC had switched to center locks after '92.

[mat777]

5 hours ago, Snipes said:

I wonderd about the hubs as I was pretty sure the BTCC had switched to center locks after '92.

Everyone else had switched long before that, centre locks were the norm from the mid 80s but weirdly the 91/92 Rouse Toyotas stayed with 4 stud. Andy was (is) a clever chap so must have had his reasons 

[wesacosa]

some more pictures of the car post roll, post repair (show car in 95 colour scheme) and pre restoration