There’s all the time lots of cool automobiles on the market on Convey a Trailer. This stands head and shoulders above them. It is a 1990 AAR-Toyota Eagle HF89, and if none of these phrases imply something to you, know that it is a mega-fast sports activities prototype racer from considered one of America’s nice racing groups, restored to complete perfection.
Toyota started a partnership with Dan Gurney’s All American Racers within the late Nineteen Eighties, first to marketing campaign the Celica within the IMSA GTO class, then to run prototypes within the GTP subject. AAR initially ran two automobiles in GTP, the Toyota 88C, whose chassis got here from Dome in Japan, and the HF89, a automobile of its personal design. This makes use of considered one of Toyota’s all-time nice engines, the 503E, a 2.1-liter turbocharged four-cylinder that simply and reliably made 800 horsepower.
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That is chassis quantity #4, which AAR raced within the 1990 and 1991 IMSA GT championship, primarily with Juan Manuel Fangio II on the wheel. Fangio drove the automobile in victory at Heartland Park, Sears Level, Del Mar, and San Antonio in 1990, and at Watkins Glen in 1991. AAR changed the HF89 with the Eagle MkIII, a automobile so dominant, it successfully killed GTP racing till IMSA introduced the title again a few years in the past.
So, the HF89 is overshadowed by the MkIII, nevertheless it’s a rattling nice race automobile in its personal proper, serving to AAR and Toyota take third within the 1990 IMSA GT championship. It is also a mega-high-downforce prototype from some of the legendary groups in racing, and sporting a nuclear bomb of an engine.
Canepa in Santa Cruz, California restored this automobile within the mid 2010s, evidently to the tune of $800,000. And it presents immaculately, as you’d anticipate. It is race-ready too, and it is made appearances on the Rolex Monterey Reunion. So you possibly can marketing campaign it in historic racing, and anticipate to run close to the entrance.
Or on the very least scare the bejesus out of your self in an old-school prototype able to new-school pace.
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