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    Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/24/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    Murilee, this is a great find!


    BTW, on Yoshikawa's web site he talks about restoring Twiggy's 2000. Seems it had A LOT of 'expeditiously repaired' bodywork before, done with Bondo. Yoshikawa took it all down to bare metal, pulled the dents, smoothed it out, and used lead filler to build everything back up nicely.


    He bitches a good bit about some 'Santa Monica restoration shop' that had done the earlier work. Would he be pitching a brick at Phil Hill, by any chance?

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    Image of Weather and darkness will not be an issue Weather and darkness will not be an issue
    12/24/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    It's all about the roadster bro, several hundred kilos of stripped down slant-8 desmodromic lemans-spectator-crushing air-braked goodness. and it looks better too.


    and that is an elan chassis under the GT above, since that's what the 2000GT chassis was.


    where's he getting the glass I wonder?

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/24/08

    @Weather and darkness will not be an issue: Dude has his own Elite that he restored, among other things. He seems to be able to tell one end of a car from another.


    Glass for the 2000 that can't be retained from the original car is probably sourced direct from Toyota. Since he's restored another 2000 and is in the middle of bringing an original Land Cruiser back to museum spec, for the factory, he's probably got connections everyone else has to dream about.

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    Image of MushyHeirloom MushyHeirloom
    12/24/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    Forget time, I want that kind of skill.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    I just went through the guy's web site. Systematically. He's too amazing for words. But he does have a serious Lotus and French car jones: Elite's, Matra's, Panhards. Plus he seems to have a very open appreciation for all sorts of rolling stock and enjoys like minded folk. Sign him up!
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    The Imhoff of the East, Ken of the Rising Sun, wielding the mad Engrish wheel skills, we have a new and mighty beacon to lead our homebrew motoring desires.


    Rock on, Yoshikawa-san.

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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    Yeah, but he's gonna have to wear a welder's helmet when he drives it in daylight because the glare is gonna be killa.
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    Image of 16X4ME 16X4ME
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    This guy and basement Lamborghini guy should get together! Imagine the possibilities!
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    Image of Elhigh Elhigh
    12/23/08

    @16X4ME: Are you nuts? (imagines mid-engined aluminum bodied tube chassis built by two brilliant, driven detail-oriented amateurs)


    That'd be HUGE.

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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/23/08

    @Elhigh: This guy's no amateur.
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    Image of Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet Van Sarockin, rogue trebuchet
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    All right, fine, have it your way. I'll make room under my tree for ONE more present. But that's it.
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    Image of theeastbaykid theeastbaykid
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    Shin literally wrote the book on the 2000GT--myself and the LeMons chief perp worked on the project with him. That process led to the coining of the term "Shinglish." (Side note, the Cobra Daytona on Shin's web page is a Superformance model owned personally by the car's original designer Peter Brock. Brock also built a lesser-known 2000GT-based prototype called the JP6.)
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    Image of POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION POLAЯ ON PЯOBATION
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    That's clearly a Fiero kit.
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    Image of Plecostomus [Tyrrell] Plecostomus [Tyrrell]
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    That's gorgeous...


    but, needs more 2JZGTE.


    Hell, 2J-naturally aspirated codething.


    It'd be a shame to put the stock motor into it.


    Likewise, it'd be a shame to not update the IRS, suspension and brakes to protect an investment like having a scratchbuilt body.

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    Image of vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in vwminispeedster, pronounded Si-trow-in
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    its not in a basement. FAIL.
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    Image of Paul Y. don't drive too fast. Paul Y. don't drive too fast.
    12/23/08

    @vwminispeedster is surviving the Carpocalypse with BART: Hell, it's not even in a kitchen.
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    Image of Maxichamp Maxichamp
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    "In Japahn, men come first."
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    Image of leavethegun-takethecannoli leavethegun-takethecannoli
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    Is that a five cent or ten cent deposit?
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    Image of pres pres
    12/23/08

    In reply to Aluminum Magician Makes Beautiful Toyota 2000GT Body
    I wish I had that kind of time.
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    Image of poxpopulus poxpopulus
    12/23/08

    @pres: now with 25% more malaise.:


    I wish I had that kind of car.

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    Image of nunya001 nunya001
    12/23/08

    @poxpopulus: Wish I had those mad fabrication skills
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    Image of JamesHunt||ShhhI'mHuntinWabbits JamesHunt||ShhhI'mHuntinWabbits
    12/23/08

    @nunya001: I wish I had that for Christmas.
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    Image of Fast_Nel Fast_Nel
    12/23/08

    @JamesHunt: I wish what everybody else wished before.
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    Image of Novaload Novaload
    12/23/08

    @Fast_Nel: But the last wish on the monkey's paw must be for...DEATH!! oooooh 0_o
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    Image of pres pres
    12/23/08

    @pres: now with 25% more malaise.:


    I wish I hadn't been bored enough to post this.

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