Hi Celica Guys - any info on this car I just bought?

[gda]

Hi all - hoping somebody out there can tell me something about this celica I just bought. It's a 1984 celica "GT Sport". The only thing about it that i can differentiate between this and a normal every day 1984 celica is that it has different wheels, and the badging to the inside, front sides and rear of the car. This would be pretty rare I guess. Any idea as the the value?

[Hiro]

Hi all - hoping somebody out there can tell me something about this celica I just bought. It's a 1984 celica "GT Sport". The only thing about it that i can differentiate between this and a normal every day 1984 celica is that it has different wheels, and the badging to the inside, front sides and rear of the car. This would be pretty rare I guess. Any idea as the the value?

You've basically hit the nail on the head there - all the information out on the net points to these as being either an AMI (the Australian Toyota distributor/manufacturer at the time) or a dealer special badge-job, to try and liven up sales or run-out a late model (Holden is notorious for this, just look at the number of different "Limited Edition" spec'd-up Commodores there are, which do nothing but just devalue the stock-standard models sold before and after them).

My personal opinion is the rarity in this case isn't going to add much (if any) value to the car, at the end of the day it's still an auto SA63 (close to the least desirable Celica of all time) with gaudy 80s badges/paint/wheels.