An extreme game fan, who happens to put every fanboy to shame, over at the AtariAge forums has done something every Sega fanboy has had wet dreams about since the Sega Saturn. He's turned his old Celica into the original SEGA Rally cover vehicle that was made famous on boxart for the Saturn.
The forum user aptly named "DaytonaUSA" took his plain white '95 Toyota Celica and, with the use of extra parts and professionally made decals, he turned his ride into the sexy '95 Toyota Celica ST205 GT-Four from SEGA Rally.
While this Toyota certainly looks the part, the car isn't modded enough to really be the rally car from the era. But the great thing is that DaytonaUSA didn't make this car to be a rally car, he did it for the love of SEGA Rally and for his love of the Saturn; the guy's forum status is "Sega Saturn for life", need I say more?
But there is some (slightly) sad news at the end of this. The car has already been sold.
It appears that very shortly after making the modifications to his Celica, DaytonaUSA went on to sell the car. However, it does mean that if anyone in the New York area sees a '95 Celica with large 'SEGA' and 'Castrol' decals over it, then that is the car.
Unfortunately I can't find the original thread on AtariAge that contains the original pictures posted. Of course I didn't spend a lot of time searching. I was too busy drooling.
Another bonus is that this car is pre-Crazy-Toyota. So no worries about sticking accelerators.
[Source Atari Age]
[Tips: SEGAone]
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