Congrats on the buy! This was always on my list of future projects, but glad Brad sold it to someone who can do something with it. I will be following!
Man! I know the guy who owns this up in Alpine. My parents have a place right across the street. It's a nice little truck, surprised he finally sold it. Hope it went to a mudder!
Here's that one in Tucson I was talking about...I can check it out for you if you're really interested.
https://tucson.craigslist.org/cto/d/vail-1977-toyota-land-cruiser-fj40/7074856999.html
Price drop - $5,000 firm.
Needs a couple things - rear brakes need to be gone through & steering would really benefit from a steering ram.
Have my eyes on something else and this needs to go...
I agree with the others, there are much better cruisers out there for the money. There was a really clean, 2 owner 78 40 with no rust in Tucson that just sold for $20k. This is not worth the $18k, or $16k. I would maybe consider buying it at $8k.
I understand that you just want something to...
I'd look into how long the guy has owned this thing. There was an painted un-finished FJ40 that looked like this for sale on craigslist a couple months ago for like $7,500 that looked a lot like this.
Guy was in the middle of the resto and got screwed around by the body shop and decided to...
Mine's a little out of your budget but might be what you're looking for. Already a pretty competent crawler.
https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/1978-fj40-crawler-project-85k-original-miles-7-500.1181462/
Hey guys!
My brother and I bought this cruiser back in July and just haven't had the time to do anything with it. With some upcoming house repairs the money would be nice and we'd like to pass this on to someone who can use it and appreciate it. Here are the specs:
1978 Toyota FJ40
-2F 4.2L I6...