This 1994 Toyota Celica GT-Four ST185 (chassis TC 357-575) is a Group A WRC car campaigned by Toyota Team Europe. It’s said to have been piloted by several notable drivers including Juha Kankkunen, who in addition to winning 1993’s driver’s title, also played a hand in a manufacturer’s championship the same year. Didier Auriol would go on to repeat both feats for 1994, though unfortunately he’s not said to have driven this particular car. Find it here on Rally 24 somewhere in the UK for 150k euros (~$202,965 today).

There are no static shots of the car, but it’s said to have been completely revised–English doesn’t seem to be the seller’s first language, and we take this to mean it’s been restored. Though obviously a late 80’s, early 90’s design with its swooping, organic curves and flip-up lights, we’ve always thought this generation to be among the best looking transverse engined Celicas. We hope it still wears the iconic green, red, and white Castrol livery and hasn’t been returned to a blank white canvas as is frequently done with rally car restos.

After a bit of digging using the car’s registration number K-AM 5380 we were able to find this link detailing a 2nd place finish at the 1994 Rothmans New Zealand Rally with driving credited to Kankkunen and Grist. The following year TTE began campaigning the four-eyed fixed light sixth generation car, and was infamously involved in one of the most public cheating scandals in modern motorsport history. Using an ingenious sliding restrictor plate TTE was able to completely bypass the intended speed-limiting effects of the device, for which the team was banned for the remainder of the ’95 and ’96 season.

These WRC cars ran similar drivetrains to their homologation counterparts, albeit in a higher state of tune. A two liter, twin cam, 3S-GTE turbo four made roughly 300 HP in Group A spec, accompanied by 340 ft-lbs. of torque. With six short, tightly-spaced gears and AWD traction acceleration should be brutal, though this limits top end to 130 MPH or so. A spare parts pack is part of the sale, and is said to include tarmac and gravel setups as well as documented history.

Sandwiched as it is between two double championship winning seasons and some of the most “creative” engineering ever seen in the sport, this car occupies a very interesting place in WRC history. We wonder if it’s still street-registerable.