Toyota 2000GT - Bond Car or Kawaii Shockwave | Tyrrell's Classic Workshop
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- Опубліковано 15 тра 2021
- Struggling to break into the US market in the 1960s, Toyota knew they needed a car that would make people sit up and take notice. And boy did this collaboration with Yamaha do just that! The Toyota 2000GT, arguably Japan's first supercar, was good enough to rival the top European manufacturers, and even joined the pantheon of icons as a Bond Car in "You Only Live Twice". This combination of performance and charm explains why it's so sought after, with good examples fetching up to $1.2 Million. Iain delves further into the history of how the car came to be before introducing some of it's lovely touches. It's then time to take it for a run, assuming he can actually get in it...
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We hope you enjoy this latest episode. Those of keen hearing may pick up on the odd misfire during the road test, this has been added to the job list to tackle before she's returned to her owners. We aimed for a weather window to avoid the car getting wet but the great British weather had other ideas, luckily it was a passing shower and she was none the worse for it.
What a great car - dripping with charisma....
I seek out non-ethanol fuel for all of my classics.
What a great video on this magnificent machine, Thanks for putting together all this information Iain👍
Yes definitely, please make some repair videos on different projects, your videos are loaded with knowledge👍
Stay Safe👍
i enjoy every episode, thank you and keep up the good work
This car was certainly not the car of the "big boys" in the United States.
Beside all his qualities I love that Iain doesn't take himself too serious...
He has a very good singing voice too BTW
@@graham6229
A man of many talents👍
A humble brilliant man
"I know him well enough to call him Iain doncha know" ......you fancy him
i loved that they filmed the whole thing of him struggling to get in a tiny car
I think this is the first time I have ever laughed during one of Tyrrell's videos. Watching him trying to get into the car was hilarious.
You would’ve ruptured a lung laughing at me trying to get into a Lotus Exige. (I’m basically the same size as a Lotus)
Tommy Cooper 😀
Kudos to him for nut cutting it out
I wanted to see him getting out of the car.
He seems like such a serious guy but there are tons of little hints all throughout his videos of a great wit as well.
UA-cam was lacking quality content for the 2000GT. Thank you Iain!
@Lassi Kinnunen 81 Theres the Fuji 2000 car, Carol Shelby's Toyota's he built for Racing, then there's the un-deseriable one that is not a DOHC its a FJ Push rod motor its not even OHC version it was the later production cars for the US market and only heard of a hand full were made.
There’s a great bit on the record setting effort albeit in Japanese.
UA-cam is lacking quality content in a number of areas, all of which Iain and his channel are making up.
I love the fact that Iain can discuss musical instruments with the same degree of authority and familiarity as motor cars. As he is such an accomplished singer I guess that’s hardly surprising. Truly a modest Renaissance man
This Man could review and describe a boiled egg with the accuracy of a Patak Phillipe timepiece.
We are so privalged to have Ian Tyrrell admit us into that Apothecary of beautiful chariots.
Poetic.
*Patek Philippe
Exactly
He is a pleasure to listen to.
@@bowlock9901
🙏🤗
In my hypothetical 5 car dream garage, the 2000GT is in there, have always adored this car without ever having even seen one in real life. Having seen it first time in the mid70’s on TV when You Only Live Twice was aired, sealed it for me.
“Piles are really important” said with the straightest face to camera - bravo, sir!
Can you explain please? Non-english speaker here. Thanks
@@dirkvantroyen9170 Hemorrhoids are often referred to as "piles".
There must have been an out take or two at this point 😅
@@ciarand2823 Tbh I wondered if he'd actually realised the significance of what he'd just said lol
first 15 mins into this was wondering how he was gonna fit in it..that was hilarious 😆
Sean Connery couldn't fit in either so they cut the roof off, They never made a convertible.
Take out the seat.
My body fits perfect inside, my budget is slightly off.
So back into my Yaris it is!
I share the angst . . . Back to my 2005 HiLux . . .
Yeah, i will keep my Camry
I think I couldn't afford the chroming for the newly made hinges...
So glad a classic Japanese car was featured. I wouldn’t mind sending my 240Z to Iain’s shop to be loved on and get his impression.
I hadn’t watched the ‘getting in for a test drive’ my god ! 😱 😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 thanks for sharing that, made my day 👍🏻😎
Recommended a Land Cruiser😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😜
🤣 Brilliant
I couldn't stop laughing
So graceful, so majestic
New name for the shop
“The beached whale”
In jest of course
Watching Tyrell's Classic workshop and Harry's auction run down videos back to back. It's what Sunday afternoons are all about.
Me too!
Retropower cars as well heavenly
@@goodfest007 ... and me !
I especially love the way Iain always not only shows respect for vehicles he has in his workshop for
Restoration but also shows such much appreciated respect for the vehicles owners who have quite
wisely chosen to entrust Iain’s Classic Workshop to handle their repair work and restoration for their
Vehicle. Not to be missed is, when you see that an owner has named business with his own name right out front as Iain has you know he is taken ownership and pride in everything he is an will be responsible for.
Lovely little car. I've only ever seen still photos of one - never seen or heard one actually driving.
Even harder to get in and out of than a Countach 🤣🤣
I'm really enjoying Iain's presentations: the history; the technical details; the road tests and the humour...so, er, yeah...
Tyrrel has a very nice sense of humor. Trying to get in make my day
lol , can you imagine your typical American trying to get in it ??
@@888johnmac i'm thin but 6,3ft, but the estereotype american? Never 😊
I laughed out loud
:)
I would do those gymnastic exercises whole day long just to have a go in one of worlds' most beautiful cars
When I was a kid we had a nice man who would park his Volkswagen Beetle in front of our elementary school playground. He was quite the rotund feller! He would grunt, and gasp, while pulling his stomach in to finally make it.
Us boys would hang onto the chain link fence, and laugh with much glee.
He always pretended not to notice us.
Seeing you crawling around on the floor made me feel fit and athletic……I am 84. Thank you for another great half hour in your company.
Saw this car for the first time in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1968, and everyone called it a n E-type copy. Thank you Tyrell for pointing out all the little details, that made this car so famous!
'The car just shrinks around you'. What a wonderful way to look at things.
It looked preshrunk to me.
Oh wow! Thanks for sharing and taking us through the 2000GT, so rare! Also nice to see you not take yourself so seriously entering the car! 😄
that's a fine piece of human origami to get in that beauty
Ferraris and lambos and mercs are great but these rare, ultra interesting cars like this is what makes this channel as much of a jewel as all the cars you've shown us.
What I like most about this channel is its calmness and maturity. It reminds me of the quality programmes the BBC put out in the 1970s - the wonderful documentaries. Now tv is all shrieking, pseudo suspense, dumbed down left wing garbage. Thank goodness for UA-cam.
Carol Shelby: _there's no replacement for displacement._
Iain Tyrrell: _there's no substitute for cubic inches._
😂👌
Mr. Tyrrell make the point clear: even a big displacement engine fan like Shelby acknowledged this car as good car even been a modest 6 cylinders 2 liters engine
@@enterBJ40 true, but the reason he used this car was to be able to compete in the (sub?) 2000cc class- there’s a reason he used 427s and 289s, in the GT40. Nonetheless, a fantastic motor and vehicle all round!
@@goodfella69 Thanks, I was wondering why Shelby would pick this car, I was confused about him picking a luxury car to go racing. Even if it was state of the art, I still expect it was to expensive to be viable, but I don't know that much about the 60s and only know the popular Shelby stories.
@@user-hr2zy7ct8h "20% more expensive than an e-type" means is still was reasonably cheap (like half the price of an italian supercar)
@@anidiotinaracingcar4874 You're proving I have no idea about the 60s. Who would've thought Jaguars weren't outrageously expensive.
I am convinced now more than ever that Iain has the best job in the world!
Yeah, I agree what an ‘office’ to work from....
And a well deserved job at that.
Yeah, if I was rich I would retire and tinker with old cars for fun.
@@haydenisaac3030 Vice Grip Garage is all about saving cars on the cheap.
While in highschool ini F;agstaff Arizona in 1970 I was friends with the son of the local Toyota dealership. One day he came to school with a 2000 GT and offered to take me out in it. We got onto the interstate and took it up to 135 mph. I was in love. I remember then how expensive it was. I had a 69 Fiat 124 sport coupe at the time and the Toyota was priced at least 3 times what my car was worth.. Ian was totally correct. No one would have thought to pay that much for a Toyota back in those days. What a great memory.
1965 was a terrific year for small, GT cars. This was such a groundbreaking effort for Toyota, a grand slam right out of the box. Meanwhile, another "dowdy" car company, Opel, was making their own statement on a 2 seat sports GT for the masses, the prototype 1965 Opel Experimental GT, which shares alot of design cues from this 2000 GT; although from everything I've read of the Opel Experimental GT design as well as the production GT design, that the Toyota design had no influence on the Opel lead designer, Erhard Schnell. For that matter, the 65 Mako Shark (which morphed into the producton 1968 Corvette Stingray, had no bearing on the Opel GT. Amazing how two different cultures could come up with a similar 2 seat GT! But for the Toyota, what a difference having Yamaha was in making this a true competitor to the XK-E! Thank you, Iain, for sharing this all-time great with us!
"I'm now going to hop in the car". Love that :D
Thank you so much to share the moment of entering the beautyfull car with us . I could feel your pain when you are stumbling out of the car. Hope you are fine.
Finally we got an impression of how tiny is the car.
All the best for you and your team.
My father (not particularly a car fan) treated me to a visit to the Ulster Motor Show at the end of the 60s/start of the 70s and the only car I can remember was a white 2000GT.
Looking back, I can understand why he never took me to another car show, because I must have spent more than an hour just walking around it in total admiration.
I've since seen 3 others (including this one), and they remain very high on my "lottery win" list.
For me the most beautiful car ever. Not a screaming design, more like a painting. You can look at it for ever. Nice to hear the story how it was designed.
Thats thing is worth shy over 1.000.000$.
Lucky guys who still own this beauty. It looks stunning
What a gorgeous car. I've been in love with them since they appeared in Bond as a drop head car. I owned a ST185 GT4 a few years ago. The engine on that was all stamped up Yamaha. Final blurb I promise. Modern rubber. It's driving me nuts how fast it disintegrates. I'm converting my Rover P6 3500 to solid race fuel lines but it doesn't end there. Recently my 3 year old servo started leaking. The quality of many after market rubber products has taken a big spiral down to the ground. It's very concerning. It's not great if you cannot start a car but it's even worse if you cannot stop one! Nice video thank you.
Video has it all; the customary mechanics, engineering, driving, history but also sticker shock[$1.3 million!], film trivia and even slapstick comedy 🤣
'ain't no replacement for displacement' is how the saying goes. Gosh, what a historical car!
Is there any finer sound than when the taps are opened on a classic sports car? A beauty of a car and much respect to Iain and the team for the sympathetic way in which they have restored her.
THE BEST episode, i love early Toyotas. So advanced for it's time. Great to hear it gets used a lot, cars aren't made to be paperweights. More Japanese cars please.
How blessed you are to be amongst these beautiful cars, obviously you have worked hard to get where you are , you seem a great guy with a great sense of humour and respect for owners cars 😉👍
😂. The struggle getting in the car. And the delivery..” Well…there we are then”. Excellent! Didn’t expect to laugh so hard. Thanks! Great show.
That put Doug DeMuro's car entrances to shame. In fact I think that's the best I've ever seen. I doubt I'd be able to get into it.
Before I tell you, Be sure to check out Cars and Bids!
Seeing you getring into the car is priceless. The best way to show how small the car actually is.
Fantastic video, as always.
The car “shrinks around you”. Any smaller and you won’t be able to get out.
Another wonderful video, with wonderfully dry humor.
I couldn't appreciate how small the car was until you knelt down next to it. What a beautiful vehicle.
Ahh as graceful as a ballerina eh Ian🤣
Was fantastic to see the 2000GT on top gear recently
Edit: And it actually was this exact car, great
I had an idiot's grin on my face the entire way through this. I have to confess I'd never heard of this car, nor had I seen You Only Live Twice -- shameful, indeed, for a 62-year-old alleged gearhead. That all changed last night, which led me here -- and to yet another reason to love this channel, and the work you and your team do. As my British father RIP would have said: Absolutely bloody smashing!
I remember seeing this car for the first time at the Montreal World’s Fair in 1967 at the Japan exhibit. It remains one of the highlights of my many visits there. I was 14 at the time.
Iain Tyrrell posts a video and Sunday immediately takes a turn for the better. Kudos for not editing out your entry into the car, I have a similar frame to you and I certainly can relate! And that interior. Just move over, Jaguar.
Such a graceful entrance into the car. Haha. It was like watching my 6.6' friend get into my 944. Well done. I love that you put that in.
Great to see Iain in one of these. A really beautiful and rare car. Great to see it get the Tyrrell treatment.
That would also be me trying to get into the 2000GT. 😅
And, thanks for sharing your total experience and knowledge of this lovely gem of a car.
Another unicorn car. Fantastic. Fantastic details both on the car and from Iain
My dream car, I fell in love with it when I was 6.
I believe your channel is the BEST car channel on You Tube. You speak competently about all sorts of vehicle, and you speak about them as objects of function and desire, even the unspectacular ones. What I like the most is your visceral reactions and your honesty - warts and all. Please continue.
It's my favorite Toyota of all time. Timeless beauty
Very elegant, Mr. Tyrrell ':-) Looove your British sense of humour - besides your obvious other talents. Thanks for another splendid evening watching and learning from you!
Such a beautiful car. Other examples of the 2000GT might be valued higher, but I would have to consider this one my favorite knowing that it is actually driven the most. If any of those who worked to create this car are still around, I'm sure they would be both thrilled and touched to know that someone is still actually enjoying their creation out on the road today. Much respect to the owner.
Fascinating. In Thailand you still see old Datsuns on the road from the late 1960s.They are usually somewhat battered. Mainly in the north east.
A stunningly beautiful car that looks modern even today. The engine is a jewel. Love to just drive one!
What?! Wow this is rare outside of Japan, just amazing!
Trivia of the day: the Yamaha logo is three crossed tuning forks, as a tribute of sorts to their musical beginnings.
Yamaha were manufacturing pianos and other instruments, and using tuning forks as their logo, half a century before they added power products to their lineup. The logo isn't really a tribute since it has always been the company logo.
@@CaptHollister Maybe I should have said it was _retained_ as such, when so many other companies change their look and logo every few decades - especially when it's a branch of the company that manufactures something that is so different from what they were originally known for.
I'm not 100% sure but I think Yamaha were also the first manufacturer to use a five valve per cylinder head in a production engine, with their FZ/Genesis motocycles. :)
The biggest difference is that logo of Yamaha Corporation is colored in violet, its corporate color, while that Yamaha Motor Co., Ltd, its sister company, uses red.
@@thesunreport Yamaha also developed the 5 valve per cylinder head for Ferrari's F355 V8.
I wouldn't hesitate to take a car I don't yet have to Tyrell - something hugely reassuring about how he does business.
There was a Sinclair gas station in the center of Needham Massachusetts that started selling Toyotas in the 60's. They had a white one of these out front for a while. I've been intrigued by them ever since.
One of my all time favorites and in my TOP 3!
This channel has quickly ascended to the point where it's unrivalled. And there is lots of high quality automotive content on UA-cam, most of which I love! But Tyrell's Classic Workshop is in a league of its own. Bravo, bravo, bravo.
Love the subtitle when you’re speeding up and your foot is on the throttle and the exhaust is screaming out loud and it says “music”. And it is music to your ears 👍. Love your channel 👌
If I recall Yamaha was engaged by Toyota to tune the Lexus LFA engine. I believe that Yamaha was moderately successful in that endeavor. =) I digress. Iain's ingress into the vehicle made me burst out laughing. Not staged and the fact that it was left in the video is a beautiful thing. It was almost Basil Faulty'esk. "Well, there we are then." LOL! The beauty of the dry British humor!! Classic. Amazing beauty of a vehicle. Wonderful video.
Wow! One of my favourite cars 👌🏻
Iain “gracefully” entering the car was rather hilarious too.
Literally diving head-first into his work!
But look at the smile on his face.
The "Goood" totally cracked me up.What a character...so funny.
oh wow, great analogy being 'a sort of wind instrument'.
the burble of a straight 6 lovely
Know several owners here in Japan. Lovely car. Great video, Iain.
Fabulous motor car.
Toyota would do well to re-invent this classic for modern times.
This goes back to a time when car making meant something.
Thanks for making this video.
Already looking forward to what you have in store next. 👍
More likely they rebadge a BMW.
Mazda has already done it with the MX-5. I love my 2016 ND, very similar specs, very affordable, very fun. They could make a similar coupe but I don't know how big the market would be, as for myself I put the top down as long as it isn't raining or snowing. That's right, I drive it year round in New Hampshire, I've had the top down in 15 degree weather and been comfortable doing it, gloves not required.
They kind of have with the Lexus LFA.
I think the GT86 is more akin to the 2000GT than the LFA.
I felt privileged to see one when I went to Techno Classica.
I love listening to your voice. You were born to tell the World about TOYOTA.
Almost makes me want to turn up with a Piano and see you work your magic with the rubber hose! Top work sir. One of the few cars that is astonishing at every single angle.
Quite possibly the finest in-depth historic substance about this car has just premiered on this channel. Thank you Ian. Lovely :)
Love your videos Iain, your calm and cheery manner, and your sheer enthusiasm. Very magnetic. And that Toyota has to be one of the most good looking cars to have ever left Japan. Would love to have one, but I know good ones are now priced at sea like so many other classics
Beautiful door shapes too. What a car
Splendid work, Mr Tyrrell. Your inner (and outer) thespian was laid bare on this one. Brian Ferry meets Kenneth Williams with a sprinkling of Alan Partridge.
Great video, as usual. I had no idea how tiny the car was until I saw you getting in and driving it. You are a very good sport to show your struggle to get in the car and it corresponds with your story about Sean Connery and chopping off the top of the film cars. i absolutely love your videos and your automotive knowledge is amazing.
Oh man you had me in a panic thinking you were pulling on the window frame!
Stunning car, the Interior is perfect with delicate touches and the rear light cluster is timeless.
I love the two full sets of headlights, it's like the automotive Dwayne Wayne.
Favorite vid yet. Love the Yamaha/music connection with the design, innovation and attention to detail
How you come up with such interesting cars and such amazing stories, again and again, is beyond me. From Yamaha to Nissan, and then to Toyota. Who knew?
Mr Tyrrell you made my day clamoring into that Toyota. Simply fabulous. I love your content, but this was moment that surely stood out.
That Yamaha designed twin cam head engine really with the sidedraft carbs sounds so sweet as you rapped it out in 3rd. I owned a '74 240Z for 5 years and it too was a sweet ride.
Nice car, thanks for posting Iain.
Wow - this channel just gets better and better
This is why we love you Tyrell . You have so much knowledge and so much character . The funny scene was top ! Divine video as always !
Never realized it was so small, thanks for the most excellent share
Very nice report. Thank you for sharing the driving experience.
I had the chance to see one of the two convertibles driving in Jingu Gaien Ginkgo Avenue (Tokyo) in 2016 ! 👌
And another time 5 of them together at a meet-up meeting in Nagoya in Nov 2015 ! 👍
No wonder it is expensive, this is a precise and beautiful clockwork!
It's what Italian sport cars should be, but are not.
Brilliant mechanic and historian, but with a touch of Python humor! That was awesome!
Glorious sound. Even at such low revs. Not sure if it is induction noise. It was certainly the car that launched Toyota, and sold millions of Corollas 😀
I so enjoy the visit
The 2000 GT is one of my top six favourite cars. Thanks for this Ian, it’s so rare to see/hear anyone’s talk about it.
Loved it again! You describe it so well and informatively. Love the humour too. A winning combination for sure. Thank you Iain ❤️
" There is no replacement for displacement" is the quote most often used here in the states. Cheers, Iian.
Mr. Tyrrell certainly took to UA-cam like Fe²O³ to Alfas. Eminently watchable.