I worked at a Toyota dealer in Tyson's Corner VA, back in the early 1980's that had one of these. Only a small handful found their way to the US from Japan and the dealer had one. I think it actually belonged to the owner of the dealership. I got to ride in it once (wouldn't let me drive it of course) it was a very memorable experience. I hear they are going for around $1mil at auctions now. 1967 Toyota 2000GT
i giot to ride in a 1948 tucker (with the cord 110 gearbox), incredible experience, even thought the car bamboozled itself mid drive. the owner still doesn't kno what happened there but we lost all air pressure from the transmission so it couldn't shif in gear. 10 minutes later we started it up and the pressure was back up and like nothing happened
Update: I saw a Corvette Callaway Speedster the other day while driving in to Chicago (Only about 10 made)
My neighbor had an unrestored mint condition 1967 Chevelle SS. All original with about 13,481 miles when he got it. He got 78K for it afaik
holy shit didn't they only make a about 70 of them ?, and from my knowledge each car was still a prototype, right? Well aren't you lucky please don't ban me for swearing
a Peugeot 206 sedan. i live in the uk and they were never sold here. hence rarest vehicle I've ever seen also a Dacia lodgy for the same reason
A non-riced honda civic EG6. A rare sight especially in ukraine, where people love ricing their cars (take ladas for example)
One time i saw a nissan skyline r34 gtr I don't have any pictures of it but it's the most rarest car ive ever seen! --- Post updated --- @andrzejserafin5 you think you can "UNBLOCK" me from your profile?
I turn off "show details on your profile page" in privacy settings,and i want to keep it for next 1 month. OT:spotted today a old Fiat 500 and FSO Polonez Atu Plus .
They weren't prototypes but they weren't production, i call them pre-production, after all 52 of them came out of a production line.
yeah each car was different from the last, but Tucker had already made his (dismal at best) prototypes and all those bodys that were built were what came from the factory before it shut up shop. If im not mistaken
The prototype was called "tin goose" and it was basically a rebodied 1942 DeSoto or Pontiac and had the unreliable 9 liter 6 cylinder engine. it was presented at the willow run plant in june of '47, people said that the combination between june weather and the tucker the heat was unbearable. spyes from the big three caught the "fraud" and tucker's reputation was temporarily ruined.
Temporarily ? you mean absolutely destroyed Preston Tuckers reputation. and about the prototypes ive read that when they invited the press (or something like that) they didn't want to turn the car off because it wouldn't start, I think that was when the helicopter engine or whatever-it-was had been installed. Another cars rear suspension had completely given up on live whilst the press was looking at, boom, just like that, and there it was all of a sudden sitting on the rear of the body work. Then of course the big three said some nasty things about Tucker and his company, most of if not all of them being complete lies. Went to court over it all and lost every thing, money, rights, patents. He really had been screwed over. The workforce that built those few cars were really just volunteers or unpaid workers who felt sorry and stayed behind to build them all. A real sad story
Many miths exist but tin goose's suspention gave in behing the curtains of the presentation (yikes!) and some big three corrupted gournalists/guards took photos of it. The prototype with the Tuckermatic torque converter tranny couldn't go in reverse. The fix was easy but the rumors started
