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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San Francisco has (according to research) played a much larger role in the history of Toyota in the US. Historical photographs have proven sample Toyopets arrived in San Francisco. San Francisco was also the home of the Tupelo Toyopet, and research was done in San Francisco at the National Japanese American Historical Society, the San Francisco Public Library and the Hokubei Newspaper (a Japanese newspaper that was around when the samples arrived).

Lefteris Kafatos, a reporter from the Hokubei Mainichi, watches Jamie Kennedy steer the Toyopet out of a garage where it had been stored

Hokubei Mainichi Newspaper / Toyopet story

February 9, 2013by cdftupelocdfms Leave a comment

One of the many stops during the Toyopet research trip to San Francisco that was made included a stop to the Hokubei Mainichi newspaper.  The Hokubei Mainichi newspaper was a […]

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Akira Nishiyama, Appearances, Press/News, San Francisco, California
San Francisco Maritime Library

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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APL / American President Lines, APL President Cleveland, Long Beach, California, Maritime Library Archives, Samples, San Francisco, California
Akira Nishiyama

What makes this Toyopet so special?

February 8, 2013by cdftupelocdfms Leave a comment

The Tupelo Toyopet is the ONLY known complete 1958 Toyota Toyopet Custom Crown Deluxe, left hand drive, in the world. The Toyota museum in Torrance, California has a 1958 Custom […]

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Akira Nishiyama, San Francisco, California, Uncategorized

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Tupelo Automobile Museum
1 Otis Boulevard
Tupelo, Mississippi
38804
(662) 842-4242
Monday – Saturday
9:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Sunday
12:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Closed New Year's Day, Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas

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