2007 Toyota MR2 Martini World Racer - NMNA

https://newjersey.craigslist.org/cto/d/2007-toyota-mr2-martini-world/6515256706.html

if your looking for something different to take to the track, here it is. probably the most unusual thing ive seen on craigslist ever.

Edit: Fixed wrong link

That looks like a lot of fun!

So wait, it's not street legal?  It is a race car?  Thanks for clearing that up, I had it confused with a minivan. 

I'm looking for something to use as a drift car and DD. Would this drive home to Chicago?

If you owned that, I would think you would have intimate knowledge of it.  Could just be a typo but the listing says 1.8L 4age which is clearly a 1.6L.    Or, the seller is not the owner.  Or, he bought the car on the speculation that it is highly valuable.   

The pictures with the green trees and the Pro enclosed trailer are likely from when he bought the car and it was delivered to him. 

I would buy that and make it street legal then I would dd the berkley out of it. 

In reply to Carbon :

I would take it to every Cars and Coffee and laugh at the old men with their Porsche's.

John Welsh said:

If you owned that, I would think you would have intimate knowledge of it.  Could just be a typo but the listing says 1.8L 4age which is clearly a 1.6L.    Or, the seller is not the owner.  Or, he bought the car on the speculation that it is highly valuable.   

The pictures with the green trees and the Pro enclosed trailer are likely from when he bought the car and it was delivered to him. 

It COULD be a 1.8L via the 7AGE crank to stroke it out... but then it would be a 7AGE. I also would like to know if he's using the OEM silvertop/blacktop ITBs.

It's mega-interesting, I gotta say.

I saw it on Craigslist then googled the car to learn about it.

I wonder if this is the same seller.

http://racecars-sales.com/Toyota-Martini-World-Racer-lot253425306987

It's a VERY similar car. This ad is offering it for twenty thousand, a bit less than the CL ad which is asking thirty-five thousand.

I mean, maybe there could be two people in north New Jersey selling very similar cars. After all, the CL seller describes the car as model year 2007, and the racecars-sales listing describes the car as 2006 model year. 

The racecars-sales listing had an ebay link. The ebay listing --which points to a re-listing of the car-- starts the bidding at $20k and gives the location Montclair, the same town given by the CL ad.

The ebay listing provides this link to a video of the engine running. It's a forty-six second video. Voomba-voomba-voomba. At about ten seconds in, the video creator thoughtfully adds some music. 

So I went to the relisting as provided. https://www.ebay.com/itm/253440380816?ViewItem=&vxp=mtr&item=253440380816

It said, so sorry, this was relisted.

Okay, so the first two listings had bidding end Feb 20 and Feb 27, respectively. Then the third listing ended bidding on March 6.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/253456232580?ViewItem=&vxp=mtr&item=253456232580

DRUMroll please. "Bidding has ended on this item. The seller has relisted this item or one like this." The listing ended at March 12 or something like that.

But hey, on that listing the bidding started at $18k.

Another relisting.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/253488439126?ViewItem=&vxp=mtr&item=253488439126

"This listing has ended." End of the trail. For now. And the price is listed as thirty-five thousand dollars.

WELL.

Well.

Well.

ps, fwiw the other ebay items by the same seller included an MGB for fifteen thousand, some tires, a vintage Mustang for $35k, a surveillance camera and some x-box accessories.

I really like that little race car.

This thing has been posted on CL for ages...curious to get the story about it. 

E30MeisterBrau said:

This thing has been posted on CL for ages...curious to get the story about it. 

You and me both.

It's back on ebay again, btw. Asking price is $25k.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Martini-Toyota-World-Racer-Turn-Key-race-Watkins-Glen-Race-History/292531235003?hash=item441c3868bb:g:bCIAAOSwOW9Z4OQ9

What class would it be legal in the SCCA?

In reply to chada75 :

Probably ASR which is a catch all but I guess technically it may fit into P2? You'd get whooped but you'd have fun. Alternatively you can race them in vintage, a friend runs one in HSR.