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Dick Tuttle
I would say it's a late 50's Corona, one of Toyota's first big sales
successes. Side trim is a giveaway. Dick Tuttle
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Erik
I called the owner of the tow company.
He said it was a "...1940 Toyota..." I asked if it was for sale. He said he'll contact the owner today and let me know. 1940??? Erik ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:08:59 -0000 From: "Byron Brill" <B_Brill@...> Subject: Mystery Car I was in the L.A. area briefly last weekend checking out colleges with two of my boys when we saw a small car being ferried on a flatbed tow truck. I've uploaded a pair of pictures in an album called "what is it". My first thought was that it was German, but Spielberg thinks it may be Japanese, a Toyopet, perhaps. We saw it Monday 4/5 about noon northbound on the 405 in northern L.A. Just after taking the pictures, the truck exited the freeway and was gone. But there is a ledgible name and phone number on the side of the truck if one of our So. Cal. listers wants to try to track it down before the worst happens. Who knows what it is? Byron
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Matthew M Spielberg <mspielberg@...>
Ok, I claim the brownie points. See
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http://www.toyota.co.jp/Museum/data_e/a03_08_7.html . My first thought was that it was a Toyopet Crown, which they actually brought to the US. But it looks to be a 57 Toyopet Corona, which I had never seen before.
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From: Erik [mailto:hofu@...] Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 7:49 AM To: Arcane_autos@... Subject: [Arcane_autos] Mystery Car I called the owner of the tow company. He said it was a "...1940 Toyota..." I asked if it was for sale. He said he'll contact the owner today and let me know. 1940??? Erik ________________________________________________________________________ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 07 Apr 2004 18:08:59 -0000 From: "Byron Brill" <B_Brill@...> Subject: Mystery Car I was in the L.A. area briefly last weekend checking out colleges with two of my boys when we saw a small car being ferried on a flatbed tow truck. I've uploaded a pair of pictures in an album called "what is it". My first thought was that it was German, but Spielberg thinks it may be Japanese, a Toyopet, perhaps. We saw it Monday 4/5 about noon northbound on the 405 in northern L.A. Just after taking the pictures, the truck exited the freeway and was gone. But there is a ledgible name and phone number on the side of the truck if one of our So. Cal. listers wants to try to track it down before the worst happens. Who knows what it is? Byron Home page: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Arcane_autos/ Yahoo! Groups Links
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Byron W. Brill <B_Brill@...>
1940 indeed...don't think so. Toyota, yeah, maybe so. I'll be real
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interested to hear what more you find out. What was its destination, storage? Mechanic? Auto wrecker? (Gulp) Scrap metal recycler? Byron
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From: "Erik" <hofu@...> To: <Arcane_autos@...> Sent: Thursday, April 08, 2004 7:48 AM Subject: [Arcane_autos] Mystery Car I called the owner of the tow company.
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Dick Tuttle
I too identified the Corona but my letter never showed up. Will this one?
Dick Tuttle
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James Tworow <sherlock77@...>
I found that link, and posted it two hours before this message here!
Hasn't shown up on group page yet, been having a bunch of posts to this group take hours to show up. Switched e-mail accounts back to my old one... see if this shows up. *This post may show up twice* Also mentioned in that post that there is a very nice 1960 Toyopet Crown up here in Calgary at a local Toyota dealer (a dealer since 1967/68). It came into Canada from the States in the late-1960's (actually San Francisco I believe), when the owner sold it he sold it to the dealer - BTW we didn't get Toyota's here until 1965. I suspect Corporate Toyota knows about this car, and I think it may be one of the best preserved LHD American-spec "Toyopet's" around. If you google "Heninger Toyota" you might find a picture of this car. James ... way up north --- In Arcane_autos@..., "Matthew M Spielberg" <mspielberg@m...> wrote: Ok, I claim the brownie points. Seethought was that it was a Toyopet Crown, which they actually brought to theUS. But it looks to be a 57 Toyopet Corona, which I had never seenbefore. -----Original Message-----and let______________________________________________________________________ __ Message: 2with two of my boys when we saw a small car being ferried on a flatbedtow truck. I've uploaded a pair of pictures in an album called "what isit". My first thought was that it was German, but Spielberg thinks itmay be Japanese, a Toyopet, perhaps. We saw it Monday 4/5 about noonnorthbound on the 405 in northern L.A. Just after taking the pictures, thetruck exited the freeway and was gone. But there is a ledgible name andphone number on the side of the truck if one of our So. Cal. listerswants to try to track it down before the worst happens. Who knows what it is?
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