Tupelo Toyopet

The home of the only (known) 1958 TOYOTA Toyopet Custom Crown Deluxe in the U.S.A. This car was previously owned by the consulate General of Japan in San Francisco and is now at the Tupelo Automobile Museum in Tupelo, Mississippi.

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Category Archives: APL / American President Lines

APL is the shipping company that brought the first large shipments of Toyopets to the US and was the operator of the ship that brought the first samples over that arrived in San Francisco.

APL (American President Lines) & Toyota (the unknown history?)

February 9, 2013by cdftupelocdfms 2 Comments

On July 23, 2008, Daron Pitts and Jamie Kennedy of the Community Development Foundation visited the San Francisco Maritime Library located at Fort Mason Center Building E, near Fisherman’s Warf […]

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