joining Japan Grand Prix drivers Fushida (#31), Fukuzawa (#32), Otsubo (#33), and Hosoya (#34). The field featured several top drivers from the Can Am series in America, as well as two Lola T70s entered by Taki Racing. While Peter Revson's Shelby American McLaren M6B-Ford took the win after battling Mark Donohue's Sunoco Special McLaren-Chevrolet, Fukuzawa finished fourth as the highest-ranked Japanese driver, earning from the prize purse. Otsubo finished fifth, Hosoya sixth, Fushida eighth, and Kawai ninth, as all five Toyotas made it to the end of the race around Fuji's shorter 4.3 km course (run counter-clockwise). As development of the new Toyota 7 continued into 1969, Fushida won the Suzuka 300 km on 19 January of that year. The 415S' last competitive victory came at the All-Japan Clubman Race at Fuji on 20 April 1969. All fourteen of the original Toyota 415S chassis were destroyed after the car was retired from racing. In 2007, Nautilus Sports Cars, a garage based in Sakura, Chiba Prefecture, produced a full-scale replica of the 415S. The project was overseen by Hosoya, and the replica vehicle was displayed at the Toyota Automotive Museum in Nagakute, Aichi Prefecture. In 2017, the replica 415S was displayed at the Auto Galleria Luce in Nagoya, as part of an exhibit to honour Fushida's racing career. New 7 (474S) Development on the new Toyota 7 began in May 1968 immediately following the Japan Grand Prix.The new Toyota 7 was referred to internally as the 474S, while press material referred to it as the New 7. The first 474S chassis was completed in March 1968, and began testing with a 5.8 litre Chevrolet small block V8 engine installed. The aluminium monocoque chassis was discarded in favour of a steel pipe space frame chassis, similar to the Nissan R381. The bodywork was completely redesigned, initially as a closed-cockpit body. But due to problems with visibility and weight, Toyota discarded the closed-cockpit 474S in favour of a new open-cockpit body, shaped similar to a large broad wedge for increased front downforce. At the rear of the car, the exhaust pipes were placed within the bodywork, while an intake scoop was mounted over the rollbar. Daihatsu Motor Corporation were now involved with the project, having lent their wind tunnel to Toyota and Yamaha to develop the redesigned open-cockpit body. Toyota's new five-litre V8 engine, the 79E, was completed and installed on 23 April.