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9 forward and 3 reverse gears
That’s the way they called it then
Forward
(3) 2wd in 1,2,3rd
(3) 4wd high in 1,2,3rd
(3) 4wd low in 1,2,3rd
= 9 Forward
Reverse
(1) 2wd
(1) 4wd high
(1) 4wd low
= 3 Reverse
More clippings like that here...
There are three later ones that I remember… one was for a 60 series about mom brings a bunch of kids to a baseball little league thing then it was either the dad or son taking it off road … there was two others for the 80 series … one came out when the brochure with Marvs LV was on it … it had...
A lot of the early ads were filmed by Hil Probert … by his dealership
"'Toyota Road' which was a road cut straight up through the woods from Madrone Canyon to Fireroad 10 where Probert's Toyota had supposedly tested & filmed Toyota Landcruisers in the early 1960's."...
I had to check to see if he was still alive… no :(
“Bob Beck died in 2008 of cancer, though it’s not clear if it was lung cancer or not. A photo taken later in his life showed him with the same thick moustache and wild hair, which by then had turned silver.”