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Toyota GTs, half a century apart


Matt Bacon

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I really like that "old GT" (even though the other models are nice to! I had that kit many years ago but sold it! However I still have the Airfix convertible in my stash....might even build it some day!

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Very cool models and thread. I just scored a set of Studio 27 decals to build the SCCA racer out of the Hasegawa kit I have. BTW, the MPC convertible kit is so very close to 1/24, especially the engine. One is going in my coupe!

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Who makes the best 1/24th scale kit of a Toyota 2000GT? I assume Hasegawa. I don't care one way or another if it's a curbside, or has an engine. And, can any of the 2000GT kits be built portraying the car with left hand drive?

Scott

Definitely Hasegawa. If you have luck, and the $$$, you can get this one:

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Otherwise, the standard curbside "early production" is still on sale in some places, and there's another curbside race version around that appears every now and then on auction sites. None of them have an LH drive dash, but at least the dash top is symmetrical, so the surgery to "flip it" is probably do-able, but certainly not easy.

bestest,

M.

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Fantastic job on both Toyotas. The Hasegawa curbside kit is one of those "eternal" catalog kits, I don't think it's ever been out of production. There have been a few other variations like the race version, and the metal engine kit you've shown above, but the baseline kit is 001 of the Historic Car Series.

You can always backorder it at HLJ, and it's selling for less than $20 with the exchange rate. Just got one in last week.

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