PART 2: The untold stories of the Toyota Celica ST185 in WRC with Nicky Grist & Don Woolfield at TTE

Welcome back - as promised, here's Part 2!
Join Nicky with his good friend & original Toyota Team Europe mechanic Don Woolfield for an in depth tour of Nicky's iconic Toyota Celica ST185.
A very special car for Nicky to own, especially having won his first ever World Rally Championship event in one with Juha Kankkunen in Rally Argentina 1993.
Nicky & Don delve into the depths of the design features on this iconic car whilst uncovering some untold stories along the way 👀
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[@poshtony3754]

Nicky, you need to get the KAM plate on it 😁

[@bcm70]

Funny story - I recently bought a GR Yaris Rallye here in Australia. I previously owned a ST185 GT4 (non Rallye) and a ST205 Group A Rallye and thought I'd get a personal plate on the car that linked back to the TTE days. Did a bit of searching and found photos of the old Celicas and tried to get a plate with the same combo of letters and numbers. None of them were available here in Western Australia! I presume because TTE had to register their cars to use them on the road sections and so the plates were still held in their name. I ended up with a number plate that was used on one of the WRC Corollas by Auriol which never came to Australia instead. Only old rally nerds like me would have any idea why I have a number plate starting with KAM on my Yaris.

[@r8malooman]

Don has helped me with advice to make sure my ST205 road car runs properly. always helpful, even from the other side of the world

[@andresgarcia7757]

Amazing content! What a beautiful car!

[@donfinch862]

That was great, and Don's done a superb job. Thanks Nicky

[@henriquegalvao6945]

I do think the rules Group A demanded were cool. Like the door card thing and etc, because it was what kept the car looking like the road one. Imagine buying a car and slapping decals and the same wheels make it look almost exactly like the GrpA.

[@franciscovera4721]

This is priceless. Thank you Nicky. Cheers from Chile.

[@markscenic8331]

Beautiful restoration. The interior is fabulous.

[@fs-a-post-all4897]

Love to see this sort of video I wasn't following these cars performing when they were in use(I wasn't born yet). But it's these sort of cars that help give people direction in their life. in recent times I've acquired a T18 celica it's the base model ST/STi I'm very glad with it since the celica was never sold in my country.

[@blakegriplingph]

I know you talked about this before, but I'd like to hear your in-depth recollections about the Colin McRae and DiRT series and how you got involved with it. From what I gather the North American release of CMR2.0 replaced your voice with an American-sounding guy doing the pacenotes and narration and was a touch slower due to the game being initially developed with PAL consoles in mind.

[@ap31988]

Amazing content Mr. Grist 🇵🇹👍🙌👏

[@nigelevans1831]

Fabulous story, Nick :)

[@181racing]

Great to see how the car I have seen rallying back then how it worked 👍

[@axelknutt5065]

Does yours have the ‘special’ turbo restrictor bypass?

[@mpainter22]

That was the later car

[@MohdjesriOthman-oi1id]

Didier Auriol has car like this in his private collection

[@MohdjesriOthman-oi1id]

is this car same spec with carlos sainz edition model