General non-MG related discussions. No politics here please!!
While looking for pictures of the Messerschmitt Tiger, I came across these great pictures taken at the Toyota Car Museum:-
http://www.forum-auto.com/automobile-pratique/section1/sujet385459-175.htm
http://www.forum-auto.com/automobile-pratique/section1/sujet385459-140.htm
This, of course, took me here:-
http://www.toyota.co.jp/Museum/index.html
I like this:-
http://www.geocities.com/motorcity/pit/3823/feather.html
But that's just me!
I have seen those too. The museum is in Aichi ken between Toyohashi and Nagoya on the Tokaido line. I once was on a big car ship that went into Tahara where they have one of there huge factories. There were about 10,000 cars waiting to be loaded on the dock. I never got to go on either the Museum or the factory tour, but those who went on the factory tour raved about it. The girls that gave the tour presented it in English, but were incapable of answering any questions having just memorized the English text.
As my wife's Uncle is in charge of computer security for Toyota, we have been through the tour of the museum as well as the future prototype area. A very nice collection of cars. Huge museum, all day event. I fell in love the 1970 Toyota GT. I'm still trying to arrange for a test drive of their F1 series :) Don't think that's going to happen anytime soon as I own all Honda's.
Soyokaze 72MGB Wrote:
VERY interesting! Some cars there I never heard of or saw before. I never thought there was any such thing as a Toyota before about 1960, but they apparently were building big, solid cars before the WWII. Reminded me of a "captured-in-Korea" Chinese car that used to appear at the state fair each year. Looked exactly like a pre-WWII Packard. I think Packard had sold tooling to China shortly after the war. I also remember Chinese trucks that appeared to be knock-offs of Studebaker trucks.
Toyota sure made some ugly cars through the years but got everything nearly perfect on the 2000GT in my opinion. Just wish enough would have been made and exported so I could have one.
JackMG Wrote: