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FEATURE: TOYOTA CELICA GT-FOUR Biasion. WRC event winners, including Michele Mouton, Armin Schwarz, Gilles Panizzi and Kenneth Eriksson, also took the wheel in the event. Whilst the car only contested one round of the WRC, it was the most famous of them all, Monte Carlo. The fact it also won the German Championship and was later driven by nine former World Rally Champions simply adds to its value in the years ahead. “I have the TTE car body record to prove the provenance,” Stuart says. “It’s the real deal.” The car is still in the Marlboro colours, although Stuart thinks that eventually he’ll convert it back to the famous Castrol colours that the cars become synonymous with, and in which it spent most of its life as a works car. Since the car arrived in Australia it’s only done a couple of track days, but recently Stuart had it over in the Neal Bates Motorsport workshop for a thorough going over, before Neal, Stuart, and his brother Angus, took the car to Goulburn’s Wakefield Park race circuit to put it through its paces. “Compared to your daily drive, it’s incredibly expensive to run,” Stuart stresses, “… around $40 a lap I worked out, but it is worth every cent. “Considering it’s been over 20 years since Neal drove one of these cars he jumped straight back in and was right on the pace from the first lap.” In the future the car will be kept solely on tarmac, but there are plans to enter it in some tarmac hillclimb events, as well as at some track days. “Neal and Darryl (Bush) were both keen to point out they’re a lot of fun for sure, but keep in mind the wear and tear the more you do. “It’s a full-on works car and parts are limited, but we’ve struck up a good relationship with Erik Wevers in Holland, who owns the entire spare parts stock from TTE, and only serves those who own the genuine cars.” Between running the family business, driving the Celica and competing in his recently-finished Mercedes Benz 450SLC, it doesn’t look like Stuart will have much time for rally photography any time soon. Not that he’s too concerned. “ I like to tell people I spent more than 25 years taking hundreds of thousands of pics and travelling the world at someone else’s expense, but I’m over it. I probably couldn’t care if I never pick up a camera again. “The time pressure is enormous, everyone wants everything instantly or faster, and I’m just not interested - the world doesn’t need to move that quickly, regardless of what people think, so I’ve decided to slow things down a little – well, not too much when it comes to the cars!” With a purpose-built rally workshop nearing completion, any spare time is likely to be spent tinkering on rally cars, or scouring the world looking for the next “must have” historical piece. Freddy Loix jumps the Celica GT-Four in the European Rally Championship. 34 | RALLYSPORT MAGAZINE - NOVEMBER <strong>2016</strong>
Owning the ex-factory Toyota is a dream come true for Stuart Bowes. “I’ve got a real surprise I’m working on and hopeful it will come to fruition. I’ve been chasing this car for some years and I’ve had a tip off I might be close to securing it. “For sure it will be the only one in this part of the world, and one of only a couple left in existence,” Stuart says. We could think of few better ways to spend our time. Car History: Built Aug 1996 Nov 1996 Freddy Loix Condroz Rally – ERC (Marlboro) 1 st Jan 1997 Isolde Holderied Monte Carlo – WRC (Castrol) 8 th Feb 1997 Renaud Verreydt Spa Rally – ERC (Marlboro) 1 st Mar 1997 Mattias Kahle Sumava Rally – ERC & ADAC (Castrol) Ret April 1997 Mattias Kahle Pneumant Rally – ADAC (Castrol) 1 st May 1997 Mattias Kahle Havelland Rally – ADAC (Castrol) 1 st June 1997 Mattias Kahle Deutschland Rally – ERC & ADAC (Castrol) 1 st Aug 1997 Mattias Kahle Hunsruck Rally – ERC & ADAC (Castrol) 1 st Oct 1997 Mattias Kahle 3 Staate Rally – ERC & ADAC (Castrol) 3 rd (Kahle Won German Rally Championship) Dec 1997 Various Race of Champions – Canary Islands (Carlos Sainz won the event, beating Colin McRae) Stuart’s road car set up to tow the new rally car ..... perhaps. NOVEMBER <strong>2016</strong> - RALLYSPORT MAGAZINE | 35
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