Now this is a real treasure: a Toyota Starlet KP61 Silhouette racecar for only a mere 3999 euro!

Starlet KP61 Racer V8
As you can see the bugeye Starlet got a lot of plastic surgery: widened (group 5?) fenders, a huge front air dam, an insanely big wing on the hatch and a dogbone Escort grille.

On the side profile you can still make out the cars original silhouette:
More pictures and auction link on the next page!

I found this picture on Karl Alexander's facebook wall and it put a smile on my face. The Tortoise and the hare, the Starlet and the Trueno:

Tortoise (KP61) and the hare (AE86)

I found this very good amateur video of the 1984 Fuji Gran Championship where a bunch of Sunny B110s, Sunny B310s, Starlet KP61s and first generations Honda Civics battled the TSA class 250km race. The competition is fierce and you can enjoy an 8 minutes spectacle of bumps, spins and drifts:

BTW: at 3:37 an unidentified car is going through the corner on 3 wheels. Anyone got an idea what car it is?

Back in the 70s when image-rights were more expensive than a drawing made by an artist the magazines still featured very beautiful renderings of the latest models, just like this 1978 Starlet KP61 drawn for motor-fan magazine:

Motor-fan Magazine Starlet bugeye
Personally I do believe a well drawn rendering is in most cases way better than a photoshoot that just didn't work out...
Of course it can not compare to pictures taken by a skillful master! ;)

This 7K powered Toyota Starlet KP61 in this short video just blew my mind:

Amazing angle, amazing sound and amazing style! (ﾟ∀ﾟ)
Edit: new version by user