[msapers]

Does anyone have pictures from back in the day? To get started, this is me in front of my Dad's '75. Picture was taken in August of 1977. The 'cruiser had burbank springs, 32 inch Tru-Tracs on White spokers, Downey header, Holley carb and a Warn winch. My Dad used to take me on club runs in a car seat! I'd love to find this rig again. Hopefully it's aged better than I have!

[alkarich]

Welcome to Mud. NIce photo.

[Trollhole]

http://forum.ih8mud.com/sc-upstate-c...ewater-sc.html

[msapers]

Thanks for the welcome. Here's another one. This is of a club run in 1978. Dig the curtains on the 'Cruiser in the middle left!

[FF LC FREAK]

Here's a couple of pictures from "back in the day". The first picture has my grandfather kneeling down in about 1973. The second picture is my mom holding my older sister in the fall of 1973. And the third picture is around 1977.

[msapers]

I love the widened wheels with stock caps.

[motoloco]

This is a cool thread, MORE RETRO PICS PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Nailhead]

Late 70's, 67 cruiser with 401 Buick, Case 580 radiator, Holley 500 2bbl, chrome spokes, chrome bezel, Cougar XR7 seats, formerly light blue, repainted black

[PAFJ]

My dad's '72 cruiser. He bought it new off the showroom floor.

[voyager:01]

AWESOME THREAD!!

[1911]

You guys are making me feel old!

Not a Cruiser pic, but here is my '73(?) F-250 that I just drove across the Dewey Bridge northeast of Moab, circa 1978:

[Coolerman]

My truck on Pine Mountain in eastern KY. This is a PO pic.. Circa 1985

[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.......

[msapers]

Found some more vintage pics! These two are of the same run near Calico in the late 70's. Man, my Dad sure kept his rig clean!

[jgordon]

That stripe is both unique and beautiful. Nice truck and thread.

[msapers]

Thanks, I'd really like to find that truck again. It was my Dad's pride and joy. He sold it after installing Burbank springs that made the ride unbearable. Later, he got a '76 with a SBC that I learned to drive in when I was 9 and he currently has a stock '72 but none as nice as that '75. If I could ever locate it I'd restore it to the condition in these pics and give it back to Dad.

[camcruiser13]

got a few in here.

still got it after all these years

http://forum.ih8mud.com/40-55-series...cruiser13.html

[pbgbottle]

1965 cruiser not sure when pic was taken
my sister born in 1971 sitting down, and bro born 1969.
283 chev V8 3spd on the floor.

[Degnol]

Originally Posted by pbgbottle

1965 cruiser not sure when pic was taken
my sister born in 1971 sitting down, and bro born 1969.
283 chev V8 3spd on the floor.

Judging by the Polaroid and counting the rings in the driftwood log....I'd guess '73-'74

[Downey]

Note that everything "back in the day" was a trail rig, not a rock rig. When we wheeled in the 70's we got alot of rock damage because we were not set up for rocks. Boy, that use to piss us off, we use to avoid rocks like the plague. Today about the only wheelin done is rock runs!!!

[Poser]

Jim-

I guess if you base this statement on what gets coverage in magazines and other outlets, then you could be correct.

I still believe that far more people use these vehicles for trail riding or family trips, etc, than for exclusively pounding rocks.






Great pictures/stories.

[SHREG]

Great thread, love the old school pics / stories.....

cheers

[Rigger]

Originally Posted by SHREG

Great thread, love the old school pics / stories.....

cheers

X2.

Keep 'em coming, guys!

Post 5, middle picture looks exactly like my 1970 Cruiser.

[tglaser]

FJ40-GARAGE... Niiice pictures and hell of a story!

[desertpat]

I reckon that the majority of FJ's out there in the 70's and 80's were in 3rd world countries and used mostly for work - in remote locations.
I had one in the late 70's in Brunei on the island of Borneo, as a company vehicle and I used it to service oil wells in the jungle mostly. The pic shows my green RHD FJ45, an Oshkosh 4wd cementing truck, and yours truly after cementing an oil well along the South China Sea coast.
Driving that beast in the jungle, especially after a rain forest downpour was a hoot.

[lowenbrau]

I didn't take this picture

[Kofoed]

Originally Posted by lowenbrau

I didn't take this picture

The dude with the Genuine Mexican PArts shirts, I have ssen bumper stickers around what that--what the heck?!?!

[Bennett]

Circa.. 1975 Not a cruiser pic but what got me into cruisers...

My dad in front and me in the Ka-boy hat.
My ride was 55Willys wagon with a studabaker overdrive with a 307 Chev V8.

The only other rig on the mountain that could out do us was a 1973 FJ40 ....after that I knew I had to have a land Crusier.
2nd pic was 30 years later with him enjoying the cruiser. ... now I am as old as he was in that first picture.
notice his muzzle loader ... pic is not far from the where the first picture was taken.

[american psycho]

A Land Cruiser man! I bought this from some guy off EBay to hang on my wall one day...

[american psycho]

Here's one of my dad and the 1969 Cruiser with our horse Sea Drift on a moose hunting trip.

Looks like he had a Warn 8274 on it.