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 daily bilingual newspaper in San Francisco that closed it's doors recently after over 60 years of service (http://www.nikkeiwest.com/index.php/the-news/past-articles/2-hokubei-mainichi-japanese-american-daily-bilingual-newspaper). Before they closed, Daron Pitts and Jamie …
Category: San Francisco, California
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).
APL (American President Lines) & Toyota (the unknown history?)
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 in San Francisco. Several internet searches led to historical documents connecting APL and the first Toyopet samples. It was believed (according to Toyota archivists that …
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What makes this Toyopet so special?
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 Crown Deluxe, but it does not have the clock, the radio, or the "Deluxe" chrome name plate on the bottom left trunk. The Toyota Museum …
Tupelo Toyopet 