Signing autographs circa 1985. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO
Signing autographs circa 1985. CONTRIBUTED PHOTO

I knew I couldn’t beat them in the skills department (remember I only started karting the year before), so my MP Turbo Team and I had to make sure we had the best car available for the event. We modified our rally-prepared 1985 Toyota AE86 for slaloms and had to find the right suspension, engine tuning and driving skill to make everything jell together. The Ramirezes were sharing Billy Johnston’s heavily modified 1974 Toyota Starlet and it was a rally winning machine plus much lighter than the 86 we had.

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