[Ralph]

Excellent post love the old new pics of the 40s!! Kinda makes me proud to own one of these magnificent machines.

[Dusty 66]

Originally Posted by brider

Anybody notice the home-made wooden roof rack crossbars on that red rig in the beach/log/camera pic? Why didn't I think of that?

Yea Dig It !

[rutbeer]

Originally Posted by Ralph

Kinda makes me proud to own one of these magnificent machines.

Oh....I always thought my cruisers owned me. Sure seems like it with the money and time I keep giving them.

[crotalusatrox]

nice pics, especially the cruza w/ the curtainz... wonder if theres a mattrss in therr?

[MOfj40]

Originally Posted by cruiser enthuiser

Is that a stock color? If so, does anyone know what it is? I like it. Guess I'll have to shop at JCREW now.

It's dune beige- the lighting makes it look more green than in sunlight. I've got that catalog saved around here somewhere.

[crushr]

Ahhh - the good old days. Winter 1987 in the mojave desert. I still have the truck; the girl, and her finer attributes are, sadly, long gone.....

[Bennett]

Looks good with the top down..................

[motoloco]

I did not know they had air bags in 72'

[garner61]

What a great idea. I love to see old pictures of cruisers. Keep showing more. Thanks Garner

[Eshu Elegua]

I guess have good "Flotation"

[msapers]

Bump to keep the thread alive. I know you guys have more old pics, fork 'em over!

[Jwood]

Obviously some one needs to school JCREW on Restore...Those are obviously newer style doors... haha

Originally Posted by scott johnson

J Crew Mag cover from 05. I'd buy some..

[lostmarbles]

OK. Here's a few that I have from the late 70s or early 80s:

This one was taken somewhere on the east coast of Oz around 1980/81. At the time I liked the bull-bar and was thinking of copying it whenever I finally got around to buying my own forty. (Funny how tastes change over time!):


This is a Wellington 4WD Club trip on "the pylon track" Wellington (NZ) in the late 70s. Landrovers dominated the clubs back then and everyone drooled over the cruisers:


And this is my own BJ40 in Rainbow Valley (NZ) probably around 1983 or something like that:

[MOfj40]

Originally Posted by Jwood

Obviously some one needs to school JCREW on Restore...Those are obviously newer style doors... haha

You'd need to take that up with TLC - they did the resto iirc.

[Dynosoar]

This Picture is from 1987-1988 it was taken on a side trail from dirt Mulholland (Los Angeles, CA). I drove straight into a washed out part of the road! I thought I could make it.


Dynosoar

[nuclearlemon]

the nuclearlemon, long before it was the nuclearlemon

[Eshu Elegua]

I found 2 more

[Super Tico]

Originally Posted by crotalusatrox

nice pics, especially the cruza w/ the curtainz... wonder if theres a mattrss in therr?

No dude. Didn´t you ever knock off a piece in a bean bag chair
Peace...................

[rloaderro]

Originally Posted by lowenbrau

I didn't take this picture

I like the mods on the one in the middle - are those 3" sideburns? Been trying to find that on eBay for ages...

[JohnnyC]

Eshu Elegua nice pics you should post them up in the FJ25 section...i bet they would love to see them

[lostmarbles]

This is my wife and I camping on the west coast of Oz (north of Perth). - Circa 1980

Note the "air deflector" on the bonnet that the PO used to improve fuel economy.



Here we are camping again in OZ circa 1981 - somewhere around the Nullabor Plains as I recall. (South coast of Oz.)



And this is just an interesting mercedes 4x4 that we spotted somewhere in Europe around 1979: (Until seeing this - I thought they produced only L-A-R-G-E unimogs.)



PS. Ignore the dates on the digital photos - That is just when I took digital photos of the "projected images" of the old slides!

[lulo]

Originally Posted by FJ40-GARAGE

April 1977 when my Father bought the Cruiser.

The black things between bumper and fender were OEM and necessary in Germany, even the corners on the bumper. (OEM 55 model corners.)

First Denmark vacation with the Cruiser in 1977.



I took that picture myself when we traveled to Denmark....

The poor fellows had to catch a ferry to Sweden and the LR radiator was leaking.

After the first repainting and some accessories added, some wheeling.


Someday my father bought another 4x4 but we kept the LC for fun, i seperated the rig completely and did a rebuilt that suits my desires.
Thats how the FJ looks nowadays after beeing a part of my life for 31 years.





True love travels on a gravel road.......

AMAZING Photos!!!


Vielen Dank Peter!!!


Prost!!!

[lulo]

My 40 Old-Pic ... (LULO Grandfather "Pepe")

When my family migrated from Spain (Europe) to Venezuela (South America), my grandfather (Pepe) buy a Toyota Land Cruiser, has since had three 40 `s, in this picture my grandfather and his last 40.




This is fantastic trhead!!!

[badmuthatrucka]

Man you guys really know how to put the hurt on a guy!

Now I want a 40!!!

Awesome thread with some of the coolest pics I've ever seen. Bar none.

[lostmarbles]

Mouth of the Orongorongo river near Wellington in the 70s:



Don't know where this was taken (without spending significant time looking it up) but I know it was shot in the 70s too:



And this is the wagon I had back in those days. (I'm the handsome dude on the left. ) And my LANDROVER is loaded up with trainee nurses from Thames hospital which is where I first met my wife. (Actually they're her friends.) I think that is an old Wellington 4WD club sticker on the rear window but it could be an Auckland Club sticker because I used to be a member of that one too.)



(I've got quite a few old landrover shots from those days but I guess I shouldn't fill this thread up with those )

[lostmarbles]

More from the 70s:




And this type of 70s behaviour would result in receiving a "traffic infringement notice" today:



Some of my 70's mates looking cool!

[Rocky_LC]

Crushr -

I could barely make it out (too much distraction in the photo) - but that looks like Garlock between Mojave and Ridgecrest. Am I right?

Rocky

[soenke]

posted the pic already in the 45 corner, love the aura of the pics and the Land Rovers though
first trip in the sahara, Algeria in the mid 80s







learning the hard way to favour the later LandCruiser BJ 45...

[71 redwood]

sweet thread keep'm coming

[71 redwood]

I wish I was alive back in the day, I would have bought the whole parking lot or store..