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Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 #3 B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Winner Safari Rally 1990 Kyosho 1:18

Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 #3 B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Winner Safari Rally 1990 Kyosho 1:18 08961A Diecast
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Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 reproduces car #3, driven by Björn Waldegård and Fred Gallagher to victory on the 1990 Safari Rally, East Africa's brutal test of car and driver endurance. Opening doors and hood expose a mapped engine bay and cabin built for a Toyota Team Europe entry rather than a road-going trim. A mid-tier diecast anchor for a World Rally Championship shelf built around the sport's toughest event.
Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 #3 B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Winner Safari Rally 1990 Kyosho 1:18
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Specifications
Brand
Toyota
Manufacturer
Kyosho
Scale
1:18
Material
Diecast
Model Condition
New Model
SKU
08961A
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About the Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 #3 B. Waldegard / F. Gallagher Winner Safari Rally 1990 Kyosho 1:18

TL;DR: Kyosho's 1:18 diecast Toyota Celica GT-Four ST165 recreates car #3, driven by Björn Waldegård and Fred Gallagher to victory on the 1990 Safari Rally, one of the World Rally Championship's most punishing events. Opening doors and hood suit a mid-tier diecast built for Toyota Team Europe collecting.

Safari Rally broke cars that passed every other test on the calendar. Dust, heat, and thousands of kilometers of rough African road turned it into a reliability contest as much as a speed contest, and this Celica GT-Four carries the livery of a driver who mastered it.

Kyosho's Safari-Liveried Celica GT-Four in 1:18

Body Detail Built for a Punishing Rally

Kyosho equips this Celica GT-Four with the raised suspension, brush guard, and roof-mounted auxiliary lamp array that Safari-spec entries carried to survive Kenya's rough, rock-strewn tracks and long unlit stages. The white body carries Toyota Team Europe's period livery in flat tampo print, with sponsor decals and the #3 door numbers registering cleanly against the panel lines rather than sitting raised or prone to peeling. Wide rally wheels fill correctly flared arches, and the underbody skid plate detail nods to the extra protection these cars needed against rocks and ruts that a European-spec rally car would rarely encounter. Doors and hood open on metal hinges, revealing a simplified engine bay and a cabin fitted with the bucket seats and roll cage outline typical of a factory rally build.

Diecast Construction at a Mid-Tier Price

This Celica sits in the same mid-tier diecast bracket as Kyosho's other early-1990s WRC subjects, built with enough opening-feature detail to reward close inspection while staying well short of sealed-resin pricing. That balance suits a Safari Rally subject particularly well, since the appeal here comes from the event's brutal reputation and Waldegård's specialist record rather than pure exotic pedigree. A collector chasing several Safari-liveried cars across different manufacturers and years benefits from mid-tier accessibility more than from committing to one premium resin piece, and the opening doors let the cabin and roll cage detail show on a shelf rather than staying hidden behind a sealed body.

Björn Waldegård and Toyota's Safari Program

A Rally Unlike Any Other on the Calendar

Safari Rally ran across Kenya on point-to-point routes that stretched for thousands of kilometers, much of it unpaved and reshaped by weather between reconnaissance and the actual stages. Heat, dust that clogged air filters and cooling systems, and the risk of livestock or wildlife on the route made simple survival to the finish a genuine achievement, and manufacturers built dedicated Safari specifications with raised ground clearance and reinforced components specifically for this one event. Toyota Team Europe took the rally seriously as a manufacturer-championship priority, and the Celica GT-Four ST165's combination of turbocharged power and four-wheel drive suited the rough going well once properly prepared for East African conditions rather than European asphalt or gravel stages.

A Champion's Late-Career Specialty

Björn Waldegård had already claimed the World Rally Championship's first-ever drivers' title back in 1979, and by the time this 1990 Safari entry ran, he had built a specific reputation as one of the event's most capable drivers, a specialist skill separate from outright pace on European tarmac and gravel. For a collector tracing WRC history through its toughest single round rather than a full championship season, this Celica GT-Four anchors that theme directly, pairing well with other Safari-liveried models from the same era. At roughly 21 centimeters long, the model's raised stance and brush guard give it a visibly different silhouette next to tarmac-spec liveries on the same shelf.

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