TOYOTA 2000 GT - very rare and expensive

fabulous! One of my favs.
Saw the one in the Bond flick (cant recall which) a few years back.

 

Golly that's a SEXY car!!! I want one

Jedi

 

GReat looking car, but I don't like the knock-offs on it. Looks better with the standard wheel / hub combo.

 

IIRC that car was specially made for the movie - are there any more convertible 2000 GTs out there?

 

"You only live twice" (1967)...

Gabriel

 

As far as I know the only "convertibles" (2) were made specifically for the Bond movie... and apparently they were roadters rather than convertibles since they didn't have functional tops.

Gabriel

 

As much as I like it (saw two white ones in So Cal), it is derivative styling. I see Ferrari all over it.

 

GREAT looking car

 

There is also one Targa top 2000GT out there somewhere.

Used to see them all the time when I lived in Maine. There is/was a shop in Biddeford/Saco that specialized in 2000GT service/restoration...

 

Are you referring to the Daytona? The Daytona was penned several years after the 2000gt was introduced so I suppose it's fair to say the Daytona was a derivative of the 2000gt. The 2000gt probably bears a strong resemblance to the E type but the chassis is well known to be derived from the Lotus Elan.

 

I think it looks like a cross between an E-type and a 275 GTB. and that's not criticism

great cars, and one of the few truly collectible Japanese cars, at least for now.

 

My grandparents lived in Upland, California and an older couple at the end of the street had a 2000 GT that sat in the driveway for years. From 1985 on I tried to buy that car with no luck. Every summer when I went to see my grandparents I walked to the top of the street and talked to the man who owned it. I offered him every dime I had made over the year in snowy Chicago shoveling and do odd jobs. He was always polite and said it had SCCA history and planned to get it running again "one of these days." By the time I was out of school in the mid 1990's and could offer him something approaching the cars worth, the car and the couple were gone. I've always wondered who got it.

 

Maine Line Exotics???

 

Yup. I think they're gone now... I moved out of Maine years ago though.

 

I read it somewhere that they've owned/restored 49 of the 62 that were sold in the U.S.

 

One showed up at C&C the other day. Love 'em. I grew up in Upland. Never saw the one you are referring to. Too bad. My neighbor had a Tucker. Couldn't get him to sell either.

 

I saw a white one at a small car show in Redondo Beach California about 10 years ago. Few people knew what it was but I recognized it right away. The owner loved the car and we talked about getting the difficulty of getting parts for it. At the time, he was having problems getting the disc brakes repaired.

He was just your average car nut. I thought he was very lucky to have such a rare machine.

 

13th and Laurel corner house with the circular drive. I never saw it move in all those years.
I remember there was also a guy off 13th between Euclid and Mountain (can't remember which street) who had half a dozen 356's and a guy who lived on Mt. Baldy with an Auburn.
I grew up around some fairly rare and interesting cars in Chicago but California was always a whole different universe.

 

... So this car is Lexus LFA heritage ?


I used to think they were all white

 

Vintage Toyota 2000 GT racers. Pete Brock later used the similar red/ blue combo cars when he did his BRE Datsun Team with the 510's.....
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nice cars, when i lived in japan I saw a couple and had a chance to sit in one, made for people much shorter than I! Sort of like many Italian cars!

 

I don't think it'll make a suitable candidate for the top spot on the heritage ladder, seen that Toyota didn't develop the car, they took the project over from Nissan/Datsun IIRC, the engine is based on a 2-litre Datsun engine too.
Great car with great performance for its' day, but the price wasn't competitive.

I'd love to have one!

 

"Only 351 (regular production cars) of the 2000GT were built, figures as low as specialist Italian sports car construction. According to Toyota and Yamaha data, there were 233 MF10s, 109 MF10Ls, and nine MF12Ls. All were actually built by Yamaha; it took two years for production vehicles to emerge. In America, the 2000GT sold for about $6,800, much more than contemporary Porsches and Jaguars. It is believed that no profit was made on the cars despite their high price; they were more concept cars and a demonstration of ability than a true production vehicle. About 60 cars reached North America and the others were similarly thinly spread worldwide. Most 2000GTs were painted either red or white."

Looks like Toyota still doesn't have real heritage for the Lexus supercar - Yamaha does, though!

 

Based on my understanding, it's more accurate to say that the engine is based on a Toyota M engine from a Crown, with a Yamaha developed aluminum head. The only period 2-litre DOHC straight 6 Nissan had was the s20, which they inherited from their merger with Prince in 1967, and first saw use in 1969., to the best of my knowledge.

I'm also not sure about your claim that Toyota had no part in developing the car. I seem to recall that Nissan's work was not used, and Toyota started development over with Yamaha. The Nissan prototype appears to be more akin to a 240Z.

I'd agree that this is not an LFA granddaddy, but I suppose it's more reasonable to liken the 2000GT to the Toyota Supra line.