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SOLVED: WTH # 398 - 1950 Toyopet Model SDY convertible by Widefield Motors
« on: March 01, 2015, 12:04:35 PM »
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2015, 10:29:23 AM »
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2015, 12:12:32 PM »
Looks British; any Jowett connection?
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2015, 12:45:41 PM »
Any Jensen connection?
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #4 on: March 18, 2015, 02:02:32 PM »
Not British, so no Jensen/Jowett connection
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #5 on: March 18, 2015, 02:16:50 PM »
European ?
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #6 on: March 18, 2015, 02:26:56 PM »
Not European
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #7 on: March 18, 2015, 02:58:33 PM »
Australian?
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #8 on: March 18, 2015, 04:44:53 PM »
Not from Australia or NZ
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #9 on: March 18, 2015, 05:55:41 PM »
Japanese?
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #10 on: March 18, 2015, 06:05:42 PM »
This car is from Japan
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #11 on: March 18, 2015, 06:29:24 PM »
1950 Toyota Model SDY with body by Widefield Motors.
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Re: WTH # 398
« Reply #12 on: March 18, 2015, 10:34:19 PM »
I have it as a Toyopet, but the rest of your post is correct.  I haven't found a lot of information about the SDY online, and this is the only image I have seen of the convertible.

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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 398 - 1950 Toyopet Model SDY convertible by Widefield Motors
« Reply #13 on: March 19, 2015, 09:38:53 AM »
Appreciated. I can never seem to get it clear as to when an early Toyota is a Toyopet or a Toyota . . . Did it have to do with a certain date, or marketing, or where the car was sold? It seems like some were Toyopets, others were Toyotas. In any case, as early as 1950, this was probably a Toyopet as your source shows.
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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 398 - 1950 Toyopet Model SDY convertible by Widefield Motors
« Reply #14 on: March 19, 2015, 09:55:24 AM »
This is a prime example, of early Japanese cars looking very British.

Wikipedia indicates the Toyopet name was applied to Toyota small vehicles starting in 1947.  This continued into the mid-1960's, except in the U.S., where the name was dropped almost as soon as it was introduced.
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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 398 - 1950 Toyopet Model SDY convertible by Widefield Motors
« Reply #15 on: March 19, 2015, 10:02:38 AM »
Actually I was torn between asking if it was Australian or Japanese in my previous post, as I thought if not British the car looked very Japanese.
But I didn't think the background looked at all Japanese, hence my 'Australian' guess.  Japanese would have been my next one.

Not that I've ever been to Japan or Australia so I'm not really qualified to comment on the scenery!
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Re: SOLVED: WTH # 398 - 1950 Toyopet Model SDY convertible by Widefield Motors
« Reply #16 on: March 19, 2015, 01:12:17 PM »
'Widefield Motors' sounds much more like an Australian company than a Japanese one to me. An early import with a locally made body?

I've seen this photograph a lot, but never with any more information than what is here
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