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Post by ra28gt on May 20, 2006 18:39:13 GMT
I heard some guy has 1 in birmingham 2000gt is that true
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Post by Uncle Bob on May 24, 2006 6:22:34 GMT
I have 3 1/43 scale diecast models....does that count ;D, i feel the 2000GT is as rare in the UK as hens teeth ,and rocking horse doo doos  . |
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Post by tony on May 24, 2006 14:20:25 GMT
Ex toyota dealer in E.Midlands has an extra rare pre-production model in his showroom. Black. Same guy has 66 Corona, MS45 Crown Estate, 76 Mitsubishi GSR GTO Coupe, early Landcruiser, mk.1 Rally Celica etc etc!
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Post by alfazer on May 24, 2006 20:48:30 GMT
Viscount Charles Raynham had his 2000GT featured in Autocar, 22 NOV 1989 and was on BBC Top Gear 2nd Mar 1995. It's a grey one and one of the 4 prototypes. He paid £1800 for it in 1971 from the showrooms of HR Owen (Ferrari, Bentley, etc.) who described it as "a rubbishy little Jap sports number". He took it to Toyota HQ Croyden to get an overheating problem looked at and then found out the true story of what he had.
I don't know if the Viscount is still around or if he still has the car. Has he ever been in contact with the club? I Googled him and found the Top Gear date and I think he lives at Raynham Hall, Norfolk.
Al
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Post by crownprince on Jun 26, 2006 21:56:42 GMT
Confirm there is the one in Lincolnshire, black, left hand drive, no pop-up headlamps and no sign that they were ever fitted! White leather interior. Also rumours of another in a private collection of classics, south of England, but no details.
Viscount Rainham car was sold some years ago at Monaco Classic Car Auction, went for about £39 000 if memory serves. Write-up in Classic and Sportscar before it went to auction.
Rainham car featured in Encyclopedia of Supercars number 71 with huge four-page fold out photo spread, showing side elevation, front and rear head-on and overhead views. Published 1992, but well worth finding.
There is also a replica of the James Bond car belonging to the owner of the Cars of the Stars Museum in Keswick, but still not on display. The car was a regular hardtop, but it was converted by a coachbuilder in Rochdale to a convertible for the museum when the owner found he had no chance of buying one of the original film cars.
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Post by 77liftback on Jul 12, 2006 22:14:34 GMT
Here's a bit more info on Lord Raynhams 2000 GT. Here's an article i kept from our local newspaper here in Norfolk . ( Eastern Daily Press ) from 24th March '95, just before it went to auction. I think the paper is trying to make out it is the actual car used in the film! Sorry the pics are a bit small but having probs with the settings on my scanner. The images are huge in photoshop but are much smaller when transfered to photobucket ?!?! Oh well, can just about read it i think !    |
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Post by stevem on Jul 20, 2006 20:58:27 GMT
i tried to buy the 2000gt(now convertable in car of the stars)after seeing it in the local paper! i offered £23000 for it.it needed total restoration, with all the bits in boxes.it was in a garage in bromley.the owner had three 2000 gt's in south africa,and was a close friend of carrol shelby.his two other 2000gt's went to the two brothers in america, that seem to have most of them.peter hunter phoned me and told me that the cars of the stars museum was looking for a 2000gt ,i then put them in touch with each other and a deal was done ,i think it was £46000.
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Post by crownprince on Jul 21, 2006 0:06:48 GMT
2000GT in Cars of the Stars museum is the one stevem saw in Bromley, and sent me a photo at the time. Car was then entered in auction at London Classic Car show, Alexandra Palace in March of that year. Museum owner bought it for £19 000 plus commission (total around £23 000). Car was then at Rochdale body shop for at least 2 years for conversion. That was during 1996/97/98 I think?
Conversion was well executed (maybe better than original?), drives OK, but now lives in owners private garage and has never been on show in museum, unless that has changed for this season?
There have been 1 or 2 other cars converted in USA.
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Post by crownprince on Jul 21, 2006 0:11:54 GMT
Afterthought.
There was one other 2000GT in UK, in large private collection and very little known. That was a red car and I've been told recently it was sold at auction associated with this year's Le Mans race.
Watch out for auction results in Classic and Sportscar mag.
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Post by mrbishi on Nov 1, 2006 19:45:01 GMT
Ex toyota dealer in E.Midlands has an extra rare pre-production model in his showroom. Black. Same guy has 66 Corona, MS45 Crown Estate, 76 Mitsubishi GSR GTO Coupe, early Landcruiser, mk.1 Rally Celica etc etc! I stopped there a couple of years back to get some fuel and the chap ended up showing me around it and showing me the rally spec ta23  He reckoned about 100k for it. |
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