Toyota Museum Car Festival in Tokyo...
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Justices said:
6750cc said:
The Toyota Museum held a classic car festival in Tokyo last month.
Thought I would share a few photos:
Thanks for that. Japanese are true petrolheads. Some incredible cars can be found out and about there. More to come?Thought I would share a few photos:
Edited by 6750cc on Wednesday 26th December 09:03
Visited the "Toyota" museum (Toyota seem to be more the sponsor as there are lots of other stuff in there as well)
Notable for this:
which appears to be dumped outside, still in the condition and state it finished its final safari rally.
and this left outside as well:
plenty of odities too:
quite why a Lambo/ Ferrari dealer would have Renault 4 in the first place and why is here is a mystery.
Notable for this:
which appears to be dumped outside, still in the condition and state it finished its final safari rally.
and this left outside as well:
plenty of odities too:
quite why a Lambo/ Ferrari dealer would have Renault 4 in the first place and why is here is a mystery.
I went to the Toyota Museum in '96 when I was in Japan on business.
There were loads of different makes there, not just Toyota and when I was there they'd made a mock up display of the Morgan Factory with a couple of Morgan's looking like they were being finished off.
My Japanese colleague who was showing Me around was a surprised when I pointed out to him the cars that were still daily drivers back in the UK though! He kept saying: "No, this is too old I think?, now, only for Museum display, surely?".
He took a lot of convincing that there were still examples of old Celica's and early 80's Nissan Bluebirds etc., still being used to take people to work every day as a family car!
He told Me that in Japan they were practically all gone as it was cheaper to get a new car than to try to get the old cars through Japan's equivalent of the MOT (At the time, bank loans came with an interest rate of 0%! ).
All the old cars had been shipped off to the Asian continent.
Japan is a fascinating country! It's a lot of effort getting there but well worth it, especially to sample a completely different way of life.
There were loads of different makes there, not just Toyota and when I was there they'd made a mock up display of the Morgan Factory with a couple of Morgan's looking like they were being finished off.
My Japanese colleague who was showing Me around was a surprised when I pointed out to him the cars that were still daily drivers back in the UK though! He kept saying: "No, this is too old I think?, now, only for Museum display, surely?".
He took a lot of convincing that there were still examples of old Celica's and early 80's Nissan Bluebirds etc., still being used to take people to work every day as a family car!
He told Me that in Japan they were practically all gone as it was cheaper to get a new car than to try to get the old cars through Japan's equivalent of the MOT (At the time, bank loans came with an interest rate of 0%! ).
All the old cars had been shipped off to the Asian continent.
Japan is a fascinating country! It's a lot of effort getting there but well worth it, especially to sample a completely different way of life.
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