Toyota AE86 Sprinter, supercharged 4A-GZE, called 24 Sep 2026.
Published before the hammer on 24 Sep 2026 and graded against what the car actually made. The thesis below is the one that went up, unedited.
A 1985 Toyota Sprinter AE86 running on Collecting Cars out of Rosebery, New South Wales — white over a blue interior, 283,543 kilometres the seller believes genuine, AUSTRALIAN-DELIVERED, VIN AE860137619, now carrying a supercharged 4A-GZE in place of the 4A-GE, a T50 gearbox with a short shift, 3/7 gears in the differential, full Haltech engine management, BC coilovers, a Fujitsubo exhaust and an Exedy clutch. One key, and the listing states no other documents are included.
$63,000 at 177,376km in December 2021 and $46,371 at 178,942km in November 2023, 1,566 kilometres apart, both red over black JDM imports with TRD parts. This entry is built on a single vehicle changing hands twice, and every figure below inherits that.
$46,371 in November 2023 indexes to about $53,000 in current money on the Japanese performance series, which bottomed in 2023 and has risen fourteen per cent since. Carried out to this car's 283,543 kilometres on the record's own curve, a standard Sprinter lands near $47,800. Everything after that is what has been done to this one.
Minus 13 for the odometer. Minus 12 for the engine swap, minus 6 for standalone management, minus 4 for the coilovers, minus 10 for no documents of any kind on a forty-one-year-old car, and plus 6 because this is an Australian-delivered AE86 rather than the JDM import the record describes, which removes the compliance question entirely and is rarer here than an import. Composed, minus 34.1 per cent, and $31,637.
On cheap Japanese platforms where the standard car is not itself collectable, this market pays for a build: the S14 record's dearest of six was the most heavily built, and the SR20 record's dearest of two was the modified one rather than the documented one.
It carries plus 12 for original panels with no rust repair and plus 6 for GT Apex options, which is a record that pays for originality, and a 4A-GZE in place of the 4A-GE is the opposite of original.
A whisker under the model and with no judgement on top. Predicted hammer $24,500 to $40,000, midpoint $31,500.
A room that prices a running, sorted, engineered supercharged AE86 as a finished project rather than as a departure from standard, in a market where good ones have not been cheap for a decade.
283,543 kilometres, one key, and not one piece of paper.
The call is a prediction of one hammer. The record behind it is the Australian evidence for the model as a whole, and it carries its own grade for how much of that evidence exists.
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