So this story starts out like alot of others. I've had alot of Toyota mini trucks and 4runners in the past, but always wanted an FJ40. My girlfriend was talking about always wanting a Jeep, her father had one when she was growing up. I showed her some pictures of some FJ40's and was able to convince her that she would be happier with a classic Landcruiser. Around this time I happened across a CL add that had five Fj40 Landcruisers for sale for $10,000. That was more than I could afford to spend. I remember thinking to myself I wonder if the guy would split them up and sell them individually. After checking back on CL awhile later I recognized one of the Landcruisers from the previous add, the owner had split them up and had one listed in my price range. I made arrangements to look at the 71'. He was asking $3000 for it. Rather than trying to negotiate the price lower, I asked if he would consider throwing in another FJ40 in for his asking price. He agreed and so I got a parts rig too. The Landcruisers were on a dairy farm, thats where the build thread title comes from, that and a lack of funds for this build. I came back one week later loaded up the FJ40's and moved them about 5 miles away to my sister's house where they sat for the next 10 mths. Two weeks ago I was finally able to go and get the Landcruisers and make the 5 hr trip back home with them. The first 2 pics below are of the 71' as it sat on the dairy farm the day I picked it up the last pic is where it sat at my sister's for nearly a year. I forgot to mention, the month stamped on the Vin tag is May a 1971, so it's one month older than I am!
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...I thought for sure I was going to be flying a giant kite!
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Sorry jesus888 , not much to report. I recently got the 2F motor pulled out and removed the front fenders, side aprons and the hood, but other than that nothing very exciting has happened. I keep going back and forth on how I want to proceed with it. I have been lurking on the Hardcore Corner section of this forum for awhile where there are alot of cool FJ40 to FJ45-ish converted builds. This has got me considering going that route. I have another FJ40 donor frame that I could cut up to use to lengthen my current frame to get the shortbed pickup length I would need. I recently missed out on a running FJ80 (no title) for a $1000 on marketplace. But due to the deep snow at the time I couldnt get access to the car trailer and lost out on it. That would have been a cool platform to build off of, kinda bummed.
