Recent content by Mike63FJ40

I've been looking for one of these same vehicles for years now. Do you mind my asking how/where you found it? I'm checking eBay motors, fb marketplace, mud, and craigslist pretty regularly and I'm wondering how I miss these when they show up... Different website perhaps?

Very interested in all early style door & soft top parts that are still available.

Any chance the soft top bows in the background are available?

Are these still available? Really trying to restore my '63 but don't know what parts and pieces are the correct ones.

@Living in the Past, any chance you would be willing to part with those? Either permanently or temporarily if I can find a shop willing to reproduce a set?

I'm still looking for the soft top door "skeletons". Either of you have a set of those that we can try to get reproduced as well?

Hey, thanks for reaching out! I think I've got a lead relatively local to me here in northern California. We'll see how the next few weeks pan out... Do you have the channel pieces that go around the soft top door? They seem to be the hardest parts to find.

East Bay/ Walnut Creek Area Yeah I don't blame you! I'm hoping to at least have a set made to match the originals. Even if it's a shop more local to someone like you who has a set and doesn't want them too far out of sight. I would compensate for any time spent going to/from the shop, too, if...

Understood. I honestly think waiting until you do is my best option for now, even if it's a year+ down the road. I guess reach out in the forums when you do, I'm sure I'll see any new post that gets made.

Looking for Type B bows and/or doors for a '63 FJ40 (rounded door frames). Or a loaner set to have copied here in the bay area. Also willing to entertain the idea of having them reproduced at a shop local to you and have them shipped to me upon completion. Trying to surprise my old man with...

Completely understand the concern, I wouldn't let them go either! I'll take whatever you are willing to provide (such as tracing them out), my only concern being the channels around the doors and the doors themselves being complicated... You mention needing a second set, are you thinking of...

Did this amount to anything? Willing to give an arm and possibly a leg for OEM/replica parts to copy or even just the dimensions to give my local shop to fabricate. The shop owner would love to get his hands on an early b-type set of bows to measure and copy. He has a few 25s and early fst 40s...

Thanks, so it sounds like there still isn't a 25/early 40 fabricator out there for the FST, bummer. Trying to get as close to OEM as possible so I'll wait on modifying a later 40 set.

Any updates on finding or fabricating the bows for a fj25/early 40 in the type B style? I've literally been searching for years for my 63? Any help is appreciated.

Hi all, I'll start by introducing myself. My name is Mike and 19 years ago my father and I split the cost of a '63 fj40 we bought in the Midwest and drove out here to northern California. It was my first car in highschool and his first overlanding rig to take on his annual trip with his buddies...