Endangered Species: Toyota Sports 800

"Ilike_cougars" (rohitvenkat01) 08/07/2014 at 11:41 • Filed to: endangered species, toyota, s800, 2000gt, jdm, japan

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Just flipping through the inter-webs and found this image, didn't know what it was so started doing some research. Built between 1965 and 1969, Toyota's first production Sports car, about 3100 were built(only 10% known to exist now), came with a 0.8 liter engine, 45hp and RWD. Two options were available the Coupe and Targa, incidentally first car with a targa top, Porsche offered the option a whole 2 years later. The car was designed by Shozo Sato on loan to Toyota by Datsun, Sato's other designs included the original Cedric 30 and 112. And going by how he used to do things, the 800 was probably drawn by hand using water colours. Extremely cool car, It looks like something that Alfa would build. Let me know if you have any more info on this.

Some more images of this gem of a car

Brian Silvestro > Ilike_cougars 08/07/2014 at 11:47

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Whoa...that's so cool.

How much do they cost?

Ilike_cougars > Brian Silvestro 08/07/2014 at 11:56

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If you find one, Id expect it to be somewhere around $30K, bringatrailer had one that sold for about 23K I think..

Brian Silvestro > Ilike_cougars 08/07/2014 at 11:57

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That's not even bad. Finding one is the real issue.

Ilike_cougars > Brian Silvestro 08/07/2014 at 12:01

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Yeah the one on BaT was in Zimbabwe out of all places, apparently there are 4 in the States,

Brian Silvestro > Ilike_cougars 08/07/2014 at 12:02

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Shit. I don't expect them to sell anytime soon.

Ilike_cougars > Brian Silvestro 08/07/2014 at 12:07

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Yeah, there should be a few lying around some barn in Japan..

MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig > Ilike_cougars 08/07/2014 at 13:11

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It was also Toyota's first (and to my knowledge, only) boxer engine until the FR-S.

MultiplaOrgasms > Ilike_cougars 08/07/2014 at 13:26

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Air-cooled flat twin I believe.

Ilike_cougars > MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig 08/07/2014 at 13:40

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Yep 2 cylinders boxer, seems like a spiritual successor to the GT86 twins right?

Ilike_cougars > MultiplaOrgasms 08/07/2014 at 13:45

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Yep 45hp out of a 2 cylinder 0.8L engine when VW were getting 50hp from a 1.4L.. not bad at all...

MultiplaOrgasms > Ilike_cougars 08/07/2014 at 14:11

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However it should be noted that the Volkswagen flat four (like the Type-1 itself) stayed largely unchanged for its entire production run, meaning 1930s tech in all models.

Smultron > Ilike_cougars 08/07/2014 at 14:57

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But that one had a Mitsubishi 4 swapped in, so you'd rather pay around 40k for a period-correct, matching-numbers car. Without importing fees etc.,of course...

MR2_FTW - Group J's resident Stig > Ilike_cougars 08/07/2014 at 16:20

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Predecessor, but yeah. Toyota actually referenced the Sports800 in many of the preliminary press materials for the 86 twins