The Toyota GT-One (Road Legal Version) from 1998
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Hey guys,
While since I've posted! I've been busy with the car at least, plenty of updates to come on that anyway! Delay with delivery of CL breaks and new wheels means I'm missing a few track events over here. I hope to get to my local track (Annau du Rhin) and the Nurburgring before the season is out though!
So a couple of months back I was at TMG HQ in Cologne where they let me take a few pictures of their facilities and what they have lurking underneath the wind tunnels. Although I have plenty of pictures of the Motorsport museum, I wanted to share this with you first. I was awestruck when I seen this in the flesh! I have seen the Porsche 911 GT1 in their museum in Stuttgart, but the GT-One is just so much more menacing when you see it in person.
http://www.autolifers.com/limelight-1-of-1-toyota-...
I had a good 40 minutes to shoot the car and could have spent all day drinking in all its lines, such a crazy looking machine!
I'll throw up some pictures of the rest of the museum which had things like Sainz's celica and corolla, a dozen or so F1 chassis, Le Mans racers and a couple of other special projects tucked away in the corner!
But this big red monster stole the show for me.
Afterwards, it got me thinking about something. Although we have GT variants of most sports cars out there,
do you think there would be space for GT1 style homologation in top-tier endurance racing??
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy my pictures as much as I did taking them!
Ciarán
While since I've posted! I've been busy with the car at least, plenty of updates to come on that anyway! Delay with delivery of CL breaks and new wheels means I'm missing a few track events over here. I hope to get to my local track (Annau du Rhin) and the Nurburgring before the season is out though!
So a couple of months back I was at TMG HQ in Cologne where they let me take a few pictures of their facilities and what they have lurking underneath the wind tunnels. Although I have plenty of pictures of the Motorsport museum, I wanted to share this with you first. I was awestruck when I seen this in the flesh! I have seen the Porsche 911 GT1 in their museum in Stuttgart, but the GT-One is just so much more menacing when you see it in person.
http://www.autolifers.com/limelight-1-of-1-toyota-...
I had a good 40 minutes to shoot the car and could have spent all day drinking in all its lines, such a crazy looking machine!
I'll throw up some pictures of the rest of the museum which had things like Sainz's celica and corolla, a dozen or so F1 chassis, Le Mans racers and a couple of other special projects tucked away in the corner!
But this big red monster stole the show for me.
Afterwards, it got me thinking about something. Although we have GT variants of most sports cars out there,
do you think there would be space for GT1 style homologation in top-tier endurance racing??
Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy my pictures as much as I did taking them!
Ciarán
I think that Wiki isn't 100% correct as I was told from the Toyota PR guy that this was the only chassis that they turned into a road version! As you can see it was very sparse indeed! I had to laugh when I had seen the cigarette lighter, I couldn't imagine lighting a cigarette trying to drive that thing around!!
I was in TMG to get a tour of the facilities so I could write a few articles. I've added a link to the museum tour so you can have a look at the rest of the cars on display!
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
I was in TMG to get a tour of the facilities so I could write a few articles. I've added a link to the museum tour so you can have a look at the rest of the cars on display!
http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...
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