Toyota 2000GT Barn Find, FH6 Complete Guide
Location: Central Mexico, jungle-edge warehouse | Year: 1967 | Value: 1,200,000 CR | Restoration: 250,000 CR, 4 hours
OK look. Japan's first legit supercar, rotting in a jungle warehouse. In Mexico. I've dumped hundreds of hours into FH6 barn finds, I've chased every rumor, I've restored every rustbucket in this game, and the Toyota 2000GT? Top three barn finds, no question. Only 351 ever built. Real ones sell for over a million at auction. And this one's just sitting there waiting for you. Bruh. That's the whole magic of Forza Horizon, man, finding priceless metal in places it has no business being.
Fair warning tho. This is a late-game barn find. You're not getting it early. Gotta unlock the central Mexico festival site, knock out a bunch of showcase events, the whole festival grind basically. Worth every second of waiting. Trust me on that. Big time.
Finding the 2000GT
The barn is in Central Mexico, right at the jungle's edge where the trees start thinning out. Unlike every other barn find which is some wooden shed in a field, this one is an old corrugated-metal warehouse. Way different look. Once you see it you'll know. But getting there? Kinda rough. The road access is garbage so you're gonna want to hit the main highway and peel off onto dirt trails heading toward the treeline. Don't try driving straight through the undergrowth near the jungle, you'll just get stuck and frustrated and waste 10 minutes.
And here's the thing. Ground level visibility is terrible, the warehouse is half buried in overgrowth, you can drive right past it three times and miss it. Been there, done that. My first attempt I circled the area for like 20 minutes getting increasingly annoyed before I remembered the drone exists. Fly it above the canopy and bam, metal roof catching sunlight, impossible to miss. There's a dirt path that leads straight to the barn door, but the minimap won't show it until you're roughly 100 meters out, which is honestly kinda troll design. Whatever. Use the drone. Don't be stubborn like me.
Restoration and Value
250,000 CR. Four hours of waiting. That's it. Mid-tier restoration cost but the payoff is honestly kinda broken when you look at the math. Restored value is 1.2 million CR. Do the math on that, that's nearly five times what you put in. Compare it to some of the other barn finds where you're basically burning credits, the 250 GTO wants 5 million to restore and that's just absurd frankly, but the 2000GT? Straight up profitable if you flip it on the auction house. Legit money maker.
But selling it. Man. Big mistake. I mean huge. I've driven every barn find this game has to offer, dozens of cars, hundreds of hours of testing, and the 2000GT is one of the most satisfying cars in the entire garage to actually build and drive. That unique shape, nobody else has anything like it, and with the right tune and the right setup this thing turns into an absolute A-class monster that ganks meta-chasing sweat lords in their cookie-cutter Porsches. They don't see it coming, ever, and that's the best feeling in online racing honestly. Watching some tryhard in a GT3 RS get walked by a 1967 Toyota, you get the idea.
Driving the Stock 2000GT
150 horsepower. From a 2.0-liter inline-six. In a car worth a million plus credits. I know how that sounds. It sounds terrible. And yeah, stock, it's a D Class cruiser, not a racer, you're not winning anything, you're just cruising around enjoying the vibes and hoping nobody challenges you at a stoplight. Here's the weird part tho. The chassis. For a 1960s car this thing is crazy rigid, the steering has actual weight and detail and feedback, and honestly if you close your eyes, well don't actually close your eyes you're driving, but if you did it feels more like some vintage European grand tourer than anything out of 1960s Japan. It's a joy just to cruise in, even at Miata speeds.
But 150 hp. Yeah. You feel every single one of those missing horses when a bone stock Mazda gaps you on a straight. That stings, not gonna lie. The engine is the bottleneck. Full stop. The one thing holding this car back from being genuinely OP. Good news though. Best engine swap in the entire game. No cap. Not even close.
Upgrade Strategy, A Class Beast
The 2000GT doesn't wake up until you bin the stock engine. 2JZ-GTE swap from the Supra, obviously, drops in clean as hell and gives you a 500+ hp ceiling with full bolt-ons. Pushes the car into A class territory, maybe S1 if you go absolutely nuts with it. I've tested basically every combination of parts on this chassis, different turbos, different tire compounds, different weight reduction stages, and here's what I actually run right now for A-class road racing, the build that's been putting in work for me:
- Engine: 2JZ swap with sport turbo, pushing ~450 hp to stay at A800
- Tires: Race compound, the stock tires can't handle the power at all
- Suspension: Race springs and ARBs. The chassis is good enough stock but needs stiffer rates for the added power
- Drivetrain: Keep it RWD. The 2000GT's character is in its rear-drive balance. AWD conversion adds too much PI and weight, don't do it
- Weight: Stage 2 reduction if PI allows. The car starts at 2,400 lbs and dropping below 2,200 makes a noticeable difference
And this build? Man. Giant killer, straight up, I'm not even exaggerating. The power to hang with modern sports cars, the lightweight chassis to out-corner them when the road gets twisty, and technical circuits like the Kyoto Old Town route where handling matters way more than top speed, this thing absolutely bullies the field. I've beaten Porsches, I've beaten Ferraris, I've beaten cars that cost five times as much, swear to god. One of my absolute favorite builds in the entire game. And I've built a lot. Seriously. Try it. You'll see.