The Febreze Twins‘ estranged global triplet, the Toyota GT-86, will serve as a canvas for tributes at this year’s Goodwood Festival of Speed. A sextet of the cars will be done up in classic liveries from Toyota’s storied motorsport past, including a couple of cars that pay specific attention to American racing efforts.
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In 1968, Scooter Patrick and Dave Jordan piloted 2000GTs for Carroll Shelby, as part of Toyota’s effort to show off their moonshot sports car. Jordan’s machine was white with a red hood, while Patrick’s car featured the white/blue color scheme reproduced here. The pair took 20 podiums during the season, including four wins. Three of those victories saw both men occupying the first and second positions.
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A decade and a half later, another stateside racing legend, Dan Gurney, was tapped to campaign a Celica in IMSA’s GTU class. While Gurney’s AAR/TRD team never won a championship in GTU between ’83 and ’85, the later GTO and GTP cars carried the now-classic red/orange/yellow color scheme forward, forging the modern underpinnings of Toyota’s performance reputation in America in the process.
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The other four cars pay tribute to a 2000GT that set records at the Yatabe High Speed Testing Course in 1966, Ove Andersson’s ’72 Celica 1600 GT rally car, and the Castrol-sponsored 1994 Group A WRC Celica GT-Four. The final car—honoring the Esso Ultron Tiger Supra from the All-Japan Grand Touring Car Championship—might well be familiar to devotees of the Gran Turismo franchise. Mostly, it just makes us want to sing Dio’s “Holy Diver” every time we see it. Ride the ty-GAH! You can see his stripes but you know he’s clean! Oh don’t you see what I mean? If what you meant, Ron, are cars with rad paint jobs, then yes, we totally see it.
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