Barn Find Classic Toyota Twin Cam Coupe 70s Survivor! Will it run? In this special barnfind episode Jonny Smith heads to Norfolk to meet the nephew of the late owner of this incredible survivor Toyota Celica liftback twin cam 2000 GT. Such a car in the UK is now so scarce that they can be counted on two hands, largely down to its appetite to rust.
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CHAPTERS
0:00 Intro
1:10 Graeme and his uncle
2:54 Opening garage door
5:00 The Cool Uncle
5:21 Matching caravan!
6:25 Moved previously
7:57 Inflating tyres
8:52 Getting it out of the garage
9:34 Out in the sunshine
10:30 Toyota 2000 GT
10:50 Celica history
11:50 Meet Tony
12:40 Possible respray?
13:55 Finding spare parts
14:57 ENGINE BAY
21:13 Electric aerial
21:33 WILL IT START?
28:29 CLEANING
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43 Comments
Thank you Jonny and your team for bringing my Uncle Ken’s Toyota Celica back to life. It was a pleasure to spend a day filming with you and a fitting tribute to my uncle ❤
Not many of these left. They were a rust bucket back then and they all rotted away. Death traps with rot. They were badly sealed with little to no rust protection. I remember my aunt had a starlet, it was only about 8 years old at the time, I remember picking pieces of rust and paint off the hole in the front off side quarter panel. Shoddy, over rated junk, sorry.
First time you have barn found one of my old cars, same colour too, and I loved it 👌
Wish the thumb nails where better.
They never make me wanna watch the video.
Quite the opposite tbh.
What a little gem credit to his uncle he cherished that car.
If modern cars werent so dull i wouldnt be here
what a cool beast jonny, it makes nice dort dort noises
I know it's my thing…..but it really irks me when grown men sit and lean on cars.
Never ever try telling me cars don't have a soul 😎
hello jonny. i saw you at Festival of speed today. got a selfie with you, thank you for showing respect towards me, good to see you don’t just switch up for the camera. like i said. you are my idol. thank you for everything jonny❤
🎉🎉🎉. Loved it. Thanks Johnny.
What a great car.❤
My 3rd generation corolla has a 18rg put in it. Goes so much faster then the stock 1.2L 4k
I guess we have been pronouncing Saleeka wrong
Car intended for the American market = pronounced as Cell-ick-ah not sell-eek-ah. Celica. ??
This barn finds are so damn good! I just wonder sometimes, due to the pile of shite we calls cars today, are my sons or grand sons going to have something similar to discover and turn back into life?
I love watching a marvelous car getting a good wash ❤️
Beautiful little engine, 2L with the twins, brings back memories of my youth
Just sent a engine out of one to scrap they have a Yamaha head.had it for free but no takers.ashame to scrap
Excellent show Jonny! It's interesting that you thought it reminded you of the Mitsubishi Sapporo as I thought exactly the same thing especially when I first saw the front of it.
Love those Toyotas awesome videos and beautiful car..
I had an 81 Corolla SR-5 lift back with the same wheel design. Wonderful car back in the mid to late 80s.
Super YouTube production sir 👍🏽
I had a KP60 starlet of the same year. My first car! I can smell it again, the interior plastics were the same colours. And that Bright green owners manual? Pure nostalgia.
That's a real beauty proves the point if you look after stuff it lasts.
You finally got a battery powered tire pump! Yes!
Amazing, what else can I say. I wish I owned it.
" Sa-Lea-ka"? …….lololololololol
glad Jonny mentioned the Quartz clock as I just listed one of these on Ebay 😃. But if the survivors are 10 or less I can't see anyone needing it 🤨
I love this series, takes me back to my childhood and first cars, such a carefree happy time.
This one was starting to see Jonny revert to ed bassmaster presenting “ oh would you look at that , just look at it” 😅. Nice car I wonder if that should be a festival of unexceptional car as opposed to a collector speculator car. Can’t be many left now
You really need to get to the car faster dragging it out to make a video longer is getting old
Jesus, you get a real time machine effect with this car! I was not even born when this machine rolled out the factory but it must be an amazing experience to drive it now! Amazing find and props to Graeme who looks like he knows at least as much about old cars as Jonny does. Just blown away by the whole thing, really. I hope this car gets a few more drives under its belt!
Wow that's in great nick, was a bit of a Celica nut back in the 80's, the RA40 had a few different engines depending on the market, from the 1600 2T to the 2400 22R in the US, the Yamaha head 2T-G & 18R-G where the best of the early engines
Does it have a sunroof ! 😂
Jonny's mind= "SQUIRREL"….. Oh yea working on cars now.
but can it drive
That is a beautiful car ❤
He certainly put you in your place jonny lol
I always loved the styling of this Toyota Celica GT liftback model. Obviously it was aimed at the American market, as was the original Celica liftback which looked like a mini Mustang, but it looked good in Australia as well. The colour of that Celica is period perfect.
Great find, almost mint. My father in law had a yellow ST and I went on to buy a very low mileage ex Guernsey Corolla 4 door saloon in Gold with a tan interior, loved it, it was so comfortable and smooth to drive. I then went on to a Celica mk4 (I think) coke bottle shape with pop up headlights. Sadly sold it due to expanding family. Now for the serious bit – Scania belt is fine, but Bjorn Borg knickers, ugh.
I prefer the '77 Celica GT
The second generation looks best in black. Especially the first generation Supra. The black over silver is my favorite of that generation.