My wife followed John to the local DMV and did all of the tile paper work. Before she headed back home she made arrangements with him to pick up the 40 that weekend.
We were now the owner of a sweet very original 67’ Fj40. My wife has always wanted a old convertible to cruse around town in. I told her that I would go through everything make it a DD and remove the top so that she could have a convertible! She was sold.
Trying to hold all of my excitement in an still act like I was engaged in my meeting just was not working out. I excused my self from the meeting, Hell I had a deal to make on a rare survivor! Everything they were betting their gums about in that meeting could wait. We all know these...
She could not send them fast enough, anyone that knows me knows I am not the most patient person. I got the hold on a Fing min. Text, them more came in.
Back to the rest of the story on Red #2. I woke the next day and briefed my wife on a few other details to look at on the 67’ before I headed out for a day full of meeting. My wife took our son to school, stopped by the bank to get some cash and was heading for the 21/2 hour road trip though the...
We spent the rest of the afternoon using our 77’ as a guide to show her where to look for rust on the 67’ the next day. John was not up with latest technology so we could not get any more pics. He was still using a flip phone!
I had meetings the next day that I could not get out of, so the next step was to tell my wife that she needed to make plans to go check out the 40. Lucky for me she loves these rigs just like I do, she didn’t bat and eye and was game for the road trip the next day!
After an hour long conversation with John about the land cruiser we settled on a deal! It was Sunday so no way to get him cash and he was by no means interested in giving me his bank account info to wire him a deposit to hold the cruiser. I was nervous that someone was going to come in behind me...
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