I did plenty of research also, you too could spend countless hours on FAST checking.
As stated earlier, the MPIII was only produced for 3 months at the beginning of 2000
There is a total of 187 in FAST between build numbers 5893 - 6855
I'm the proud owner of 6604 and it was produced in March 2000
Mine is a genuine 2 Japan owner car with log book history, it took over a year of searching in Japland and in this time there were only 3 others, 2 of these had rust issues and the other one sold for almost 4 million yen, out of my budget.
I've never done a proper photo shoot but here's a pic I took in my front yard after I washed it..
As I said before, please do wait for what your after even if you have to import a MPIII
Noy