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Go backstage at England's Castle Combe circuit as we flog a T61 with Marino Franchitti.
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1967 Toyota 2000GT: A Generational Gift
I’m sitting here with moist eyes as a result of a memory your film recalled. It was the late 60’s or early 70’s and my father had taken me for a surprise drive. The surprise turned out to be a visit to a small local (Colorado Springs) dealership to see one of these magnificent vehicles. I remember being transfixed – I must have worn a path in the floor around that car. It was the most beautiful automobile I’d seen up close. Interesting that my father ended up getting a 240z in ’71, though I’ll let others argue the styling influence question. Wonderful film – and thank you for the memory!
I take your point, but somehow it doesn’t bother me. He may be camera shy or have health difficulties. The car is on display at the dealership, and acknowledges his prior history with these cars. To me that is enough. Truly, who drives a car as rare and as valuable as this one other than for short intervals to keep the lubricants moving, and on demonstration drives?
Petrolicious, the level of access you achieve to these cars and these people is extraordinary. You are systematically documenting all of the great automotive achievements of the 20th century, and many of the most knowledgeable collectors. How and why people maintain these collections is at least as interesting, to me personally, as the cars themselves. Both are stars.
Another great story, and an insanely pretty car. When I was a little kid in Japan, back in the 70s, I spent a lot of time at my uncle’s house. The next door neighbor had a 2000GT and Sport800 parked, both of them silver. They really were the coolest thing around. (The neighbor kept them for a long time, finally disappeared when I was in high school.)
