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I dunno. LOOKS like a Chapparal, but without the wings and other appendegages..... :-\
It was from the same era, but no GM engine or Hydra-Matic in this one...
None of our Sports / GT racing fans know this one?
Lola?
Dan
Not a Lola.
Elva?
Dan
No. This car is from a brand I (and, I suspect, others) wouldn't have associated with big-bucks GT or endurance racing in the late '60's and early '70's.
Porsche
No.
Spyker
No sir. The Original Spyker company folded in 1925. The resurrected Spyker was introduced in 2000.
Ferrari...
I'm just throwing out names!
More like a McLaren
None of the above.
Toyota 7 from 1968. In 1970 the Toyota 7 turbo had a 5-liter V8 with turbo that gave 530 bhp.
Correct!
The Toyota 7 made its racing debut at the fifth Japanese Grand Prix of May 3, 1968. Four 7s were entered for the race at the Fuji Speedway and one took away the honors in its class.
Toyota had skipped the previous year's race. Time had been too short to develop a brand-new racing car properly, because new rules governing design were not settled until very late. Toyota was determined to build a new racing car from the ground up, which made it much more difficult for Toyota than for its competition to put a machine together in time for the 1967 season. As with the current F1 project, Toyota did not build the 7 to simply win races, but also to help the company gain valuable experience through the process of developing a winning car.
Toyota targeted Racing Group 7 regulations, as specified by the FIA, the governing body of world motor sport. The car was conceived and masterminded by the talented Jiro Kawano, the man behind the Toyota 2000GT, but development and construction were entrusted to Yamaha. The design was typical of a Group 7 car of the period, with the main cockpit structure made up of aluminum side sills and scuttles, and glass fiber body panels. The prototype, which was first seen testing at Suzuka in February '68, had a DOHC fuel-injected, six-cylinder, two-liter engine borrowed from the 2000GT. By the time the car appeared at the Fuji circuit in March, the engine had been upgraded to a proper three-liter DOHC V8 all-alloy unit.
What's this and from when does it date, for 1 point?:
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Experts?
1968 Toyota 7, or type 415S in testing
Quote from: thewarlord on August 26, 2013, 01:46:30 AM
1968 Toyota 7, or type 415S in testing
Yes indeed, I have it as a Toyota 7 Group 7 racer from 1968.
1 point for you.
Merged
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 26, 2013, 10:53:06 AM
Merged
OK. If you use the Search facility for "Toyota 7" it tells you there aren't enough characters (in the "7" bit) so effectively you can't do a search for something with only 1 letter or number.
What I actually did then was search through all the "Toyota" results, but there are quite a few and for some reason either I didn't see this one or else it didn't show. Since I was just looking for "Toyota 7" I assume the latter..
I used the Google search function I outlined in a previous post. ;)
Quote from: Otto Puzzell on August 26, 2013, 03:53:23 PM
I used the Google search function I outlined in a previous post. ;)
Yes, I must get out of the habit of using the AP one..
Your continued volume of puzzle posting is welcome by all. So, it's a re-post of a puzzle from a half-dozen years ago. No harm, no foul.