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Displaying the ‘short’ German registration ‘K-AM 50’, Ian Duncan drovethis car to 3rd overall behind team-mates Markku Alen and winner JuhaKankkunen, with Yasuhiro Iwase coming home 4th to make it a famousToyota 1, 2, 3, 4 finish. Duncan is a six-time Kenyan rally champion andwas employed by both Subaru and Toyota to contest the Safari rally asthe local specialist. He won the event overall in 1994 and in 2013 wonthe East African Safari Classic Rally ahead of former World ChampionStig Blomqvist.TTE records show that after the 1993 event, this car was purchasedby another Kenyan rally hero, Jonathan Toroitich (son of former KenyanPresident Daniel arap Moi). Though not confirmed, it seems likely thatthis is the car used by Toroitich on the Safari Rally in 1994, 1996 and1997 (there was no event in 1995) his best result being a 5th overallin 1997. Multiple Uganda rally champion Moses Lumala was alsocompeting in an ST185 Celica in African rally events but in 2001 hecrashed his car beyond repair. An Africa News Service article states thatin June 2001 he purchased an ST185 from Jonathan Toroitich to replaceit, thus explaining this car’s assumed relocation to Uganda.Purchased from Uganda through Omar Mayanja together with otherrally cars and taken to Italy in 2006, it received a professional restorationat rally-car specialists Devos Motorsport in Aalbeke, Belgium, while theengine was professionally rebuilt at great expense by Rallye-Engine.com (Gerd Dicks) in Weeze, Germany during 2010. After completionthe Celica was driven by Armin Schwartz in the 2011 Bettega Memorialdemonstration. Imported into the UK in 2012, it has been regularlyrun but not used in anger. It should be noted that during the course ofits competition life, the bodyshell was substituted for an earlier (1992specification) item with a works number of ‘TC530’.Finished in the livery it sported when driven by Ian Duncan in the 1993Safari Rally, the car presents well and is ‘on the button’. It is an idealentry for a variety of retrospective rally events such as those organisedby Slowly Sideways and Rally Legend, and is ideally suited to therally stage at the Goodwood ‘Festival of Speed’. Representing a rareopportunity to acquire an ex-works rally car with in-period competitionhistory at the highest level, the Celica is offered with its original (number‘3’) Safari Rally fuel funnel, Toyota Certificate of Origin, sundry invoicesand a quantity of original photographic transparencies of the car anddrivers from the 1993 event. A comprehensive Safari specificationspares package is available by separate negotiation.£80,000 - 120,000€99,000 - 150,0003Motor Cars | 313