📸PICTURES: Toyota brings the classic 2000 GT, sported by James Bond in the 60s, to the future - with a price tag of R20 million. Read how Toyota is bringing this 'forgotten' beauty back to life here: Toyota2000GT Motoring MotoringNews MotoringWorld
, the 2000 GT, in 1967, carried a sticker price of $7 150, which made it not only more expensive than muscle cars such as the Ford Mustang and Chevrolet Corvette by a considerable margin, but also the E-Type that retailed for just over $5 500.
Resplendent with the chassis number MF10-10207, the original Thunder Silver painted 2000 GT once belonged to the wife of Toyota South Africa founder and CEO, Dr Albert Wessels, who drive it occasionally as evident by the 32 000 miles on the odometer.Painted Solar Red somewhere during its lifecycle – the other choice of colours being Pegasus White, Bellatrix Yellow, Twilight Turquoise and Atlantis Green – the 2000 GT sat unattended at Toyota HQ with its future being anything certain.
Tasked with keeping the car as original as possible, the almost 18 month process involved more than a just of series challenges.While described as being in fairly good condition, modernised practises with ’60s detail retention had to be applied in order to bring the 2000 GT back to life. Six metre rosewood dashboard couldn’t be removed during the stripping proses due to its age and fears for cracking.
A subsequent decision was made to leave and restore it as best as possible while the major exterior work continued around it.Just a big a decision was whether to keep it Solar Red or repaint it back to its original Thunder Silver.
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