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Title: Solved - NEH 3971: Toyota Model B prototype luxury car - 1943
Post by: Carnut on March 16, 2015, 08:28:11 AM: What's this and from when does it date, for 1 point?:

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Title: Re: NEH 3971
Post by: Carnut on March 30, 2015, 05:32:32 AM: Experts?
Title: Re: NEH 3971
Post by: richard cuyler on March 30, 2015, 09:27:51 AM: German?
Title: Re: NEH 3971
Post by: max on March 30, 2015, 09:32:56 AM: Any Graham connection (other than looks)?
Title: Re: NEH 3971
Post by: Carnut on March 30, 2015, 09:40:32 AM: Quote from: richard cuyler on March 30, 2015, 09:27:51 AM
German?

No..

Quote from: max on March 30, 2015, 09:32:56 AM
Any Graham connection (other than looks)?

..and No!
Title: Re: NEH 3971
Post by: fyreline on March 30, 2015, 04:13:46 PM: Toyota Model B "Large Sized Luxury Car", about 1944 by the time they finished it. I always thought that the front end of these looked like a cross between a 1941 Chevy truck and a 1941 Dodge truck.
Title: Re: NEH 3971
Post by: Carnut on March 31, 2015, 04:10:54 AM: Quote from: fyreline on March 30, 2015, 04:13:46 PM
Toyota Model B "Large Sized Luxury Car", about 1944 by the time they finished it. I always thought that the front end of these looked like a cross between a 1941 Chevy truck and a 1941 Dodge truck.

That's right, yes.
You would have thought they would have been otherwise occupied around that time rather than thinking about American-looking luxury cars!

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Title: Re: Solved - NEH 3971: Toyota Model B prototype luxury car - 1943
Post by: fyreline on March 31, 2015, 08:51:14 AM: Quote
You would have thought they would have been otherwise occupied around that time rather than thinking about American-looking luxury cars!

Yes, absolutely. The market for such a car had to be extremely limited in any case, but why even bother with it with so much on their nation's industrial plate?