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IIRC, "Toyoda" was the family & the loom company name, but they changed it to "Toyota" when they started making cars...1936 sticks in my mind, maybe that's when they started...think they made a knock-off of a Chrysler Airflow at first. When they started selling cars here in the late '50s, they called them "Toyopet Crowns" & they kinda looked like shrunken 1951 DeSotos. You've seen a Toyopet Crown, if you've ever watched an old Godzilla movie-it's the one that has suicide doors on the rear, & invariably gets stepped on & Squashed by th' ol' dinosaur hisself...
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