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Just a little additional history. The cars were actually built by Yamaha. Pricing started at $7,000. The car was an inline 6 cylinder producting 200 h.p. The car weighed 2,500 pounds and used a five speed transmission. Times were pretty mediocre coming in at 15.9 for the quarter mile and 0-60 times at around 10 seconds. Lots of good suspension, though. All wheel independent with discs all the way around. Magnesium knock offs, too.

Originally, the design was created by Graf Goertz who was under contract to Datsun. He created the car design in '63 and, with the help of Yamaha, produced a running prototype. Datsun, for whatever reason, passed on the car and Yamaha pitched it to Toyota. The rest is history.

The convertible version of the car showed up in the Bond movie, "You Only Live Twice". Datsun was the ultimate winner in the category with the subsequent development of the 240Z, which sold a ton of cars at an affordable price, with performance that exceeded the 2000 GT.