Patina Appreciation: Show Us Your Rusty Land Cruiser! (7 Viewers)

[seth]

Don't we all love a good patina before and patina after?

Here's 1967 FJ45 Long Bed after a lot of elbow grease.

 

[RevISK]

Don't we all love a good patina before and patina after?

Here's 1967 FJ45 Long Bed after a lot of elbow grease.
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Hot Damn!

 

[Flatlanderfj40]

Wow, that's hot.

 

[77CJ5]

This one is begging for @wngrog treatment:

 

[Voodoocruisers]

Before…

 

[Voodoocruisers]

After..

79 factory chrome package.

 

[wngrog]

Pimp

 

[Flatlanderfj40]

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79 factory chrome package.

Stuff dreams are made of!

 

[rex in bama]

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79 factory chrome package.

That is one sweet rig!

 

[Cruiser Parking Only]

Crusty but cool.
Nice Dead sticker on the back.

 

[77CJ5]

 

[77CJ5]

 

[CBFJ]

Crusty but cool.
Nice Dead sticker on the back.

good eye- didn't see that one! Terrapin era I think?

 

[77CJ5]

 

[fyton2v]

This is best thread on Mud.

 

[corcel]

Hey @wngrog what do you do about pesky nats/flies? Fluid film works overtime as an effective bug catch.

 

[wngrog]

Hey @wngrog what do you do about pesky nats/flies? Fluid film works overtime as an effective bug catch.

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I don’t leave it on thick enough for that but you can just rub them in!

 

[JLawson]

I've heard that at 88mph they will come right off!!?

 

[cruiserboy14]

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Wasn’t this just shown in the “back in the day” thread?!?!

 

[77CJ5]

Wasn’t this just shown in the “back in the day” thread?!?!

Yep. Good eye.

The “before” pic was snapped in ‘94…before it was neglected:

FJ40 Pics from "Back in the day" (70's, 80's)

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