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Tree Crushes rare, million-dollar Toyota 2000 GT

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2014/09/20 23:29:19 (permalink)
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Tree Crushes rare, million-dollar Toyota 2000 GT

The straight-six Toyota 2000 GT was a Far Eastern jewel, and the attention paid to the styling resulted in one of the loveliest shapes ever to see production. Sure, it owed a bit to the E-type, but the longnose cat’s hardly a bad car to have in one’s aesthetic gene pool. The 2000GT proved that Toyota, and by extension Japan, could build a beautiful, advanced thing just as well as anybody in the West. Although Honda’s CVCC set the car world on its ear during the Malaise Era, it could be argued that Japan’s automotive ascendancy began years before, when Toyota set the 2000GT program in motion.
 
The million-dollar 2000 GT was crushed by the tree in the Gokayama area of Nanto in Japan’s Toyama Prefecture and was 6.2 feet wide at its thickest point. The driver escaped with mere scrapes and bruises.
 
A rebuild is planned which could take 2 years.
 
There were quiet a few of these beautiful 2000 GT's in Australia, but most have been bought up by wealthy Japanees collectors.
Does anyone know of any still in Australia?
 
http://blog.caranddriver.com/no-dude-it-wasnt-an-ent-tree-crushes-rare-million-dollar-toyota-2000gt/
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