Equipment
Centerlock wheels, fender mirrors, dash clock, power windows, woodrim steering wheel, wood shift knob, factory AM/FM radio.
Condition
Lefthand drive U.S. market car, one of 62 built. Used but very clean engine bay. Very good paint other than a small blister on the tail. Straight body, even gaps. Very good interior. Not overdone. Sympathetically restored and just right. A rare US market left-hand drive car from new, one of 62 examples equipped for sale here. Owned by racer Otto Linton and subsequently in several private collections. Cosmetic restoration on a sound example done in 2007.
Market commentary
Sold by Mecum at Monterey last year for $1,017,500, then hammered not sold at Mecum Kissimmee back in January at a high bid of $750,000. After this example and a few others brought seven-figure prices, Toyota 2000 GTs have become fairly regular features at high-end auctions. Supply caught up to demand and they're no longer flavor of the month, so the million-dollar Toyota is no longer, at least for the time being. It's a trend that was confirmed both by the transaction of this car and the white 2000 GT over at Gooding, which sold for over a million dollars in 2014 but barely broke half of that this year at Pebble Beach.