Monday, October 12, 2009

Charmant Coupe?!

Found this on facebook.. I just added the owner as my friend so details about this Charmant will have to wait until i can talk to him. Anyway, of course there never was a factory-standard coupe Charmant. The owner moved the B-pillars back a few inches, lengthen the front doors and maybe shorten the rear doors so that he can weld them to the body. Add a bigport 4A-GE, convert to dual barrel carbs, slap on some rally rims and tires, throw few gallons of red paint and you got yourself an uber-cool Charmant!
Nice headlamps, huh? If i am not mistaken, the owner uses this as a speed-rally car so if you're wondering whether Charmants are any good on rough driving, now you know!

***update Oct 13th 2009***
Wahyu, a friend of mine in Daihatsu Charmant club sent me these pics of the same car. These were taken back in 2007. You can see it still has the original 4A-C *plus* 17-inch rims! Wahyu also has similar looking headlamps on his Charmant. A bit of story regarding these headlamps as shared by Wahyu, they're taken from a local Toyota van called Kijang Super, the exact same chassis as my previous pickup truck (but i replaced the headlights with newer version). It takes some minor welding and cutting to make the brackets but as you can see, these headlamps surely give fresher looks.

2 comments:

  1. Nice! It feels a bit like looking at a 2 door KE70 with the looks of a Charmant. ;)
    (I know... The Charmant is based on the 4 door KE70)
    Are the headlights from a KP61 Starlet?

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  2. Hi Banpei! Thanks for visiting! well, KP61s are very rare here.. There's only like two or three in Indonesia so i am betting they're not from it. Maybe they're from a local Toyota van that has similar looking headlights.

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