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by **l1ttle_d3vil** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:23 pm

got this photo at work today with a media release...
not sure what the media release was about but on the back of the photo its got
"Chairman and Managing Director of Toyota New Zealand, Mr Bob Field with the original Toyota model, the Corona RT40, and the latest new model released, the Toyota Aurion."

dammmnnn it looks mint! so shiny!! got an NZ number plate on it too, which I've removed though... :lol:

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Profile · by **skoty** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:35 pm

Dam... show room condition

I've only ever seen 1 RT40 Corona driving around and that was full of rust and pretty shabby

by **l1ttle_d3vil** » Fri Jan 19, 2007 5:57 pm

yeah I assume its from toyota's museum or something - i would imagine they'd have one somewhere.
there's a guy on TS who's got a 4agte in one of them too I think, looks pretty nice.

by **Logan** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:52 am

WOW!

Thats an amazing looking RT! I mine mine to look like that, but its going to need an extreme makeover!

You said it had a NZ plate? I wonder if its acutally in NZ?

Profile · by **skoty** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 12:58 pm

l1ttle_d3vil wrote:yeah I assume its from toyota's museum

Yeah I'd say so, visiting the toyota museum would be wicked, apparantly they have cars like the 67' 2000GT used in the James Bond movie. Wasn't a production car but I think it was used as a pace car or something ?

by **rxtoy** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 8:33 pm

been to the Toyota museum in Nagoya, they do have an early 2000GT, not the one used in the James bond movie though although that is there and is one of 2 toyota made convertible's. very sexy car!!!

didn't see any early corona's there beside mk11's either, no RT 40's at all from memory although they might have them stored away.

cheers
Matt

by **Alex B** » Sat Jan 20, 2007 9:50 pm

2000GT was a production car, they just sold bugger all of them.

by **rxtoy** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 11:06 am

2000GT was a production car, the 2 convertible's used in the James Bond film were the only 2 made though as opposed to the reasonable amounts of hardtops

cheers
Matt

by **narlystarly** » Sun Jan 21, 2007 8:13 pm

l1ttle_d3vil wrote:yeah I assume its from toyota's museum or something - i would imagine they'd have one somewhere.
there's a guy on TS who's got a 4agte in one of them too I think, looks pretty nice.

Yup, mine is the 4agte one, that one is absolutely immaco' however.

Am currently repainting mine at the moment in the factory red like that one, but looking at that chrome i think im going to have to send all my chrome away to be done

by **l1ttle_d3vil** » Mon Jan 22, 2007 9:52 pm

yep, just as i thought - the car is registered to toyota nz. atleast its got a good home, but still it'd look nicer in my garage! :lol:

by **Snoozin** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:28 am

As I recall that Corona is one of, if not the first Toyota that was assembled in NZ. Hence it's significance to Toyota NZ.

by **rollas22** » Tue Jan 23, 2007 12:02 pm

Fark thats mint...... Woulda looked good with my KE25 :lol:

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