Toyota 2000GT Convertible Replica, Possible?

Toyota 2000GT Convertible Replica, Possible?

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Shermanator

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578 posts

88 months

Saturday 3rd August 2024
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I've just been rewatching the Top Gear James Bond Car piece and it got me thinking;
If you wanted to build a replica of a Toyota 2000GT Convertible, as seen in the bond film, what would you use?

What car has the same wheelbase/dimensions as the Toyota? So if you wanted you have a coachbuilt body put on top, and a specially built interior, it would look "right"

Just to point out, I have a serious dislike of bond but I do think the 2000GT Convertible is one of the prettiest cars in the world. I also have nowhere near the funds, skills or space to actually build one, it is a purely hypothetical question.

PositronicRay

27,900 posts

196 months

Saturday 3rd August 2024
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MX 5

galro

807 posts

182 months

Saturday 3rd August 2024
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A Toyota 2000 gt coupe.

Voxy

1,375 posts

186 months

Saturday 3rd August 2024
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Not cheap, but Rocky Auto will make one for you:

https://www.carscoops.com/2024/01/rocky-autos-toyo...

bobtail4x4

3,957 posts

122 months

Saturday 3rd August 2024
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galro said:
A Toyota 2000 gt coupe.
different wheelbase buy I like the idea.

Gareth9702

381 posts

145 months

Sunday 4th August 2024
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Try a Suzuki Cappucino or a Honda Beat to make a miniature GT2000. I once read the Bond convertible was produced because Sean Connery was too large to fit in the coupe.

Turbobanana

7,071 posts

214 months

Sunday 4th August 2024
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Z3.

Lotobear

7,702 posts

141 months

Sunday 4th August 2024
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Elan plus 2. A big advantage is the backbone chassis and fully independent suspension. Body off and fibreglass replica 2000gt body on

Decky_Q

1,769 posts

190 months

Sunday 4th August 2024
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bobtail4x4 said:
galro said:
A Toyota 2000 gt coupe.
different wheelbase buy I like the idea.
Bonds car was a coupe with the roof cut off, how could it have different wheelbase?