---
title: Shinichi Yamazaki · HICONIUM
description: Shinichi Yamazaki in the HICONIUM register — one file carrying their credit.
canonical_url: https://hiconium.dev/people/shinichi-yamazaki
image: https://hiconium.dev/og/people/shinichi-yamazaki.png
---

> HICONIUM · Index: https://hiconium.dev/llms.txt · Every page: append `.md` or send `Accept: text/markdown`.
> Path: [Home](https://hiconium.dev/) › [People](https://hiconium.dev/people) › Shinichi Yamazaki
> On this page: [280A chassis](#280a-chassis) · [Work at Yamaha](#work-at-yamaha) · [Yatabe preparation](#yatabe-preparation) · [One file carries this name](#one-file-carries-this-name)

People

# Shinichi Yamazaki

Toyota 2000GT chassis and suspension engineer

The record

A Toyota product-planning engineer responsible for chassis and suspension in Project 280A, the 2000GT programme.

Project 280A began on 1 November 1964 after Toyota's defeat at the second Japanese Grand Prix, according to GAZOO. Toyota Automobile Museum describes the 2000GT effort as a small team rather than a conventional collective programme, naming Jiro Kono as project leader, Satoru Nozaki for design, Hidetaka Takagi for engine work and Yamazaki for chassis.

From mid-January 1965, GAZOO reports, Nozaki, Yamazaki and Takagi worked Tuesday through Friday in Yamaha's design office; the drawings were finished by the end of April. Yamaha identifies Yamazaki as responsible for chassis and suspension and says he was one of four Toyota product-planning men temporarily stationed there. The first prototype was completed in August and a second was shown at the October Tokyo Motor Show.

Yamaha's history describes the frame as an X-shaped steel backbone and the selected suspension as four-wheel independent with disc brakes. Toyota Automobile Museum specifies double wishbones front and rear and rack-and-pinion steering, linking the wishbones to manoeuvrability and ride comfort. A Nostalgic Hero account of the Yatabe trial says that, after a clutch failure during preparation, Yamazaki had a different clutch disc ready at Toyota's Sotoyama plant.

### 280A chassis

Toyota Automobile Museum identifies Yamazaki as the chassis member of Project 280A.

### Work at Yamaha

GAZOO records Yamazaki's Tuesday-to-Friday work in Yamaha's design office from mid-January 1965, while Yamaha calls him responsible for chassis and suspension.

### Yatabe preparation

Nostalgic Hero records that Yamazaki had a different clutch disc ready at Toyota's Sotoyama plant when a development car suffered a clutch failure before the Yatabe trial.

The house

[![Toyota](https://hiconium.dev/images/marques/full/toyota.svg)](https://hiconium.dev/manufacturers/toyota)

Credited through Toyota.

In the register

## One file carries this name

- [Toyota 2000GT Chassis lead · Toyota 1967–1970 €900k 1967–1970 €900k Rating 94.0](https://hiconium.dev/vehicles/toyota/2000gt)

The files above are the register's own record of this name. [The people index](https://hiconium.dev/people) holds everyone the register credits.

Sources

- [toyota-automobile-museum.jp](https://toyota-automobile-museum.jp/en/archives/stories/detail/852.html)
- [gazoo.com](https://gazoo.com/feature/gazoo-museum/car-history/14/08/22_1/)
- [global.yamaha-motor.com](https://global.yamaha-motor.com/stories/history/daysgoneby/005/)
- [nosweb.jp](https://nosweb.jp/nostalgichero/articles/detail/1289)
- [nosweb.jp](https://nosweb.jp/nostalgichero/articles/detail/1290)
- [imsa.com](https://www.imsa.com/news/2022/03/09/a-2-5m-sale-is-more-than-a-record-for-the-2000gt-its-toyotas-revenge/)