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Originally Posted by William Dale Jr
I assume it would be partly because the 1600cc Corolla was going to be obsolete at the end of the year. Why go down a path proven to be a dead-end instead of developing a 2L Toyota for the new regulations, I don't know. Money, probably.
As an aside, the Dowsett, Dolley, and Lilliard Corollas were all sold to Australia at the end of the year. In fact, Bob Holden's existing AE86 Liftback Corollas were painted to match the Dolley and Lilliard cars!
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There's some more explanation in the following number of Autosport. The car was to be run by Rayscar set up by Ray Selley, Les Lilliard and Tony Matthews. For that purpose the team had bought one of the '88 MIL Toyota Supra Turbos and planned to upgrade it with the latest parts from Japan. The team said to be negotiating with a Japanese financial institution for sporsorship.
Interesting info that the entire bunch of British AE82s were to end in Australia later in the year. It has already been suggested that the Dowsett's car made it via Macau, but will look out for Lilliard and Dolley being in Macau too.
Jesper