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16 Oct 2005, 13:52 (Ref:1435116)
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Look What I Found in My Local Toyota Dealership
We have had new Toyota Dealership open here in Wakefield and they have this on display.
 It's a Toyota 90CV, I had a quick look through the window and located the chassis platle, and it says that it is chassis number 6. Now according to the information sheet it says it raced at Le Mans, but i'm sure about that. The drivers names which appear on the door are Geoff Lees and John Watson. I have had a look on a couple of websites and can't find any race history for the car. I have a feeling that the car was a show car, but I could be wrong. Last edited by rdjones; 16 Oct 2005 at 13:59. Reason: adding extra information |
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16 Oct 2005, 14:12 (Ref:1435134)
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Nice car!
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16 Oct 2005, 14:23 (Ref:1435151)
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I had a quick look, I also think I didn´t raced in Le Mans. But Team Sard had a spare car in 1990, #38T, I have no number of this, so it´s possible this could be the spare car. Sard run with a similar white / red livery.
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16 Oct 2005, 14:34 (Ref:1435163)
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16 Oct 2005, 14:49 (Ref:1435174)
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Hmm i can't decide if its worth coming down the road from Leeds to see it..
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16 Oct 2005, 16:24 (Ref:1435220)
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Lees and Watson (with Dunfries) did share a chassis #06 at Le Mans, but it was in 89 and the car was an 89CV.
It was in Taka Q colours, not the blue and white scheme seen on Rob's picture. Too my untrained eye there was not alot of differance visually between the 89CV & 90CV, so could it be any 89CV with later bodywork? |
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16 Oct 2005, 19:44 (Ref:1435428)
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not nearly as impressive i know, but i was home in dundee a couple of weeks ago and the mazda dealership there has the bodywork from the 1991 winning car on display high up on a wall.
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16 Oct 2005, 19:52 (Ref:1435439)
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The rear wing is an 89 version, the nose is from a 90 car
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16 Oct 2005, 20:34 (Ref:1435478)
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Looks like a test car to me, never saw those colours raced.
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16 Oct 2005, 20:46 (Ref:1435494)
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I have just watched the 1990 LM on video and I can't see car in those colours either. My only thought is that it was used in the All Japan Sports Prototype Championship.
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17 Oct 2005, 04:19 (Ref:1435656)
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17 Oct 2005, 05:48 (Ref:1435690)
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No - it's Toyota corporate colours, and it is a hybrid structurally. |
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17 Oct 2005, 11:28 (Ref:1435883)
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What kind of finance package were they offering?
Great car though, sure beats the potted plants of the dealerships around here. |
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17 Oct 2005, 11:46 (Ref:1435896)
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Thanks for the information so far, I do have some more photo's of the car which I will be post, when I get home.
I would be nice to find out the full history of the car, from the information which people have posted here and other forum's it some sort of hybrid of the 89-CV and the 90-CV. Now looking at some pictures of the 90-CV it looks as if they used several different configeration's of rear wings through out the year. 1990 was a bit of bad year for Toyota, before Le Mans they lost 2 chassis's in crashes and then another was damaged beyond repair there in the crash with Gianfranco Brancatelli Nissan. |
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17 Oct 2005, 13:09 (Ref:1435971)
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it could be this one .
http://www.teamdan.com/archive/wsc/1990/90nurb.html DNF 37 Geoff Lees (GB) Hitoshi Ogawa (J) Toyota 90C-V 89CV/10 Toyota Team Tom's 96 Out of fuel 7. 1:24,998 also . very nice site http://wsrp.wz.cz/chassis/chassis_toyota.html |
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17 Oct 2005, 18:59 (Ref:1436276)
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I had already seen those two sites. I have also just uploaded some more photo's:- http://www.rdj-pics.co.uk/Photos/Oth...p-C/index.html
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17 Oct 2005, 20:13 (Ref:1436369)
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the car has slight damge and its taped up.
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i wonder why they didn't put one of their f1 cars on display.
no really, they are in f1...honest. |
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24 Oct 2005, 21:35 (Ref:1442580)
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I noticed this evening when pass the dealership on my way home from work that the car has now gone, where too I do not know.
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25 Oct 2005, 09:32 (Ref:1442866)
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Perhaps since the chassis number is 10 (from Dani's link) and the plate says 6 it may be a hybrid of 89 #6 and 90 #4?
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