Recent content by seth

Sounds good! I’ll shoot a message to the IG account for the Discord invite.

Oh, and while that one is under the knife I’m over here with 300k+ miles on the clock for the 1999 LX470. (This was the 2nd part of the move back in May)

It’s looking a little quiet here in the Cascade Cruisers thread, but I’ve got to say hello. My wife and I just moved to the Portland area a couple of months ago from Southern California and I’m looking for some fellow Toyota nerds. I brought my 1965 FST FJ40 with me and currently in the...

It’s been a year and a half since I posted about the 99 LX470 — since then I’ve done a lot and the truck is ready to roll over to 300,000 miles this week! Back in early November of last year, my wife and I did a 6500 mile road trip across the country from California to visit my family in...

Alternatively, if those are installed unpainted from the factory, it was their solution to the paint rubbing problem that I’ve seen on a few of my early FJ40s?

It looks like it distributes the force of the hood pads and prevents denting.

Some of you may have seen my build thread, but for those that haven’t — I’m working on my (quite original) 1965 FJ40 factory soft top. Full frame-off restoration down to bare metal and trying not to cut any corners — but doing most of the work myself. I’m preparing to add new rear wheel skins...

Old thread, but thought I’d toss in a pic of mine while I have my wheel skin peeled off. And yes, with all the rust and delamination, I’m planning on fabricating replacements.

That’s a pretty big spread between those numbers. Wild.

Thanks for checking on it! What’s the vin on that one? Mine is 32561.

Thank you! It’s pretty random to see, and maybe something they tested out on the assembly line for a little bit. Would be nice to get a range of VINs that had the black.

Ok, so it’s also time to revive this inquiry. Has anyone with an early FJ40 (pre-1965) seen semigloss black paint on firewall and underside of body? Even more evidence of this black when I lifted the wheel skin off the other day. It’s a bit hard to tell in the photo, but there are no layers of...

A little glamour shot from today — no work progress on the truck, but did a garage and tool cleanup.

Today was the day I conquered removing the passenger side wheel skin! Took a wire wheel to the surfaces so I could see the spot welds, and then gradually drilled those suckers out. I didn’t take a lot of pics of this process, but I did make a video which I’ll share below. A few things I...

Just ordered some! Thanks guys.