FINAL PRODUCT.... More completed photos below... took us a while but we got it done... Top part made in Colombia. We now make a Florida new trailer base copying the prototype and using the painted/tub top portion. These are available $6900 going forward if someone wants one.
I am down in Colombia designing and building a custom trailer using a 5 foot long FJ43 tub. If this works out I will manufacture a bunch of them.
This is the prototype.
Wanted to see what your comments are.
Details so far...
FJ43 tub with custom drop down tailgate. Welded trailer frame (I may have these made later on in the USA)
the front section will be another 2 or 3 feet in a triangle made of aluminum diamond plate like a pickup tool box (maybe white is better or color match the tub. we will see).
Front 'wall' custom made and will all connect with the tool box area.
Total weight estimated 850 pounds
payload 3/4 ton or 1500 pounds
2 inch ball
bed is 5 feet exactly
frame custom built all welded
total length 8 feet trailer
Color can be painted matched to buyer's truck using toyota paint code. PPG paint.
color matched/textured bedliner.
The hubs will be Toyota 6 bolt for classic rims etc.
Those wheels I had made here. they are 15 inch original toyota welded into a modern hilux 16 by 7 rim.
we painted them black on our FJ43 truck and put the hubcaps on them
tires are 265/75/16 around 32 inches.
trailer will ride at the same height and have the same wheels and tires as the truck. same paint.
not sure if this trailer goes with the 82 FJ43 in red or the blue 78 FJ43 I have coming. That truck will have 7.50 x 16 tires on split rims.
use land cruiser emblems and rear lights from FJ40. license plate holder etc.
do metal bars maybe 12 inches up from the tub and cover with the same soft top fabric as the truck.
I think I ship it out and import it as automotive parts. Florida registration is with no title just bill of sale due to the low weight. Every state is different and thus in the future may have to get a new trailer made in FL with vin number and title. ship the finished and painted tub in and put it together in FL.
dont have those details figured out yet. I figured I should just build it and go from there.
trailer is being built by a guy that specializes in this. I saw his other trailers and very nicely built.
I don't have all the costs added up yet but won't be cheap due to the wheels/tires/tub and custom paint/welded frame.
I was looking at the adventure style trailers and they look to be $8000 to $12,000.
Pop up tent or bbq etc would be cool in the future.
These pictures are not great. the frame that it is on is for another trailer. he is building mine now.
I am down in Colombia designing and building a custom trailer using a 5 foot long FJ43 tub. If this works out I will manufacture a bunch of them.
This is the prototype.
Wanted to see what your comments are.
Details so far...
FJ43 tub with custom drop down tailgate. Welded trailer frame (I may have these made later on in the USA)
the front section will be another 2 or 3 feet in a triangle made of aluminum diamond plate like a pickup tool box (maybe white is better or color match the tub. we will see).
Front 'wall' custom made and will all connect with the tool box area.
Total weight estimated 850 pounds
payload 3/4 ton or 1500 pounds
2 inch ball
bed is 5 feet exactly
frame custom built all welded
total length 8 feet trailer
Color can be painted matched to buyer's truck using toyota paint code. PPG paint.
color matched/textured bedliner.
The hubs will be Toyota 6 bolt for classic rims etc.
Those wheels I had made here. they are 15 inch original toyota welded into a modern hilux 16 by 7 rim.
we painted them black on our FJ43 truck and put the hubcaps on them
tires are 265/75/16 around 32 inches.
trailer will ride at the same height and have the same wheels and tires as the truck. same paint.
not sure if this trailer goes with the 82 FJ43 in red or the blue 78 FJ43 I have coming. That truck will have 7.50 x 16 tires on split rims.
use land cruiser emblems and rear lights from FJ40. license plate holder etc.
do metal bars maybe 12 inches up from the tub and cover with the same soft top fabric as the truck.
I think I ship it out and import it as automotive parts. Florida registration is with no title just bill of sale due to the low weight. Every state is different and thus in the future may have to get a new trailer made in FL with vin number and title. ship the finished and painted tub in and put it together in FL.
dont have those details figured out yet. I figured I should just build it and go from there.
trailer is being built by a guy that specializes in this. I saw his other trailers and very nicely built.
I don't have all the costs added up yet but won't be cheap due to the wheels/tires/tub and custom paint/welded frame.
I was looking at the adventure style trailers and they look to be $8000 to $12,000.
Pop up tent or bbq etc would be cool in the future.
These pictures are not great. the frame that it is on is for another trailer. he is building mine now.
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