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Thanks. Yes, the guys at the shop were always telling me stories how when their other customers would come to pick up their vehicles, everybody would stop and talk about the 40. The day before I brought it home he said 5 people came by to take pictures of it. It is a great feeling having something so rare. Thats funny about the guy texting himself. Reminds me of a joke or something I read about a guy who woke up one morning after a night of drinking, to find a glass of what he thought was water next to the bed with a note that read " For hungover me", but when he drank it, it ended up being vodka, to which he responded "drunk me is an a$$hole"!Its such a nice feeling when major progress is made and things like the rust holes are gone. It looks great! Congrats
Funny how this vehicles get peoples attention. My body guy was doing the work at home and he mentioned it to someone at work when word spread at his work people wanted to see it and had stories about their interactions with them. He also mentioned he had a old timer walk by and say "i havent seen one of those in years, those motors are bullet proof" its neat to hear stuff like that.
By the time he was done with the first round of work he was wanting to tackle more on it.
Be careful telling the other half on prices, ive got to keep up for what i told her they really cost. Reminds me of a guy I knew years back he would text himself while out on a friday drinking so he could remember what he did and told people when he had drank so he could be true to his word haha.
anyway cool cruiser the progress is amazing.
Thanks for letting me know what type of body it is. I was curious and tried to do some investigating. We had to add some steel brackets and add some steel to a couple other locations, to stiffen it up for the doors and seat mounts. Now that we are done, I am very happy with it, other then a value point of view. Also, I messaged Coolerman on here earlier in the week about that heater vent asking him options, because my heater is not getting the necessary air to really power it. He connected me to an Ebay link selling that vent. Needless to say it is ordered and should be here any day. Thanks again
Funny you should ask! I've been following your build on here the past few months. Along with everyone else whose read your thread am in complete awe at the detail and quality of work you have done. It is awesome. Anyways, you have kind of been a thorn in my side (ha ha joking) when I see the things your cleaning up, and paying attention to, I'm thinking, man really, I have to do that. Actually, it has really helped me and guided me along. As for the color, yes it is done and I'm kind of just documenting the story from the beginning so I have it, but I ended up going Beige. After stripping some things on the doors and top, I came to the conclusion it started out beige before someone changed it to the red. But, after I was dead set on doing the beige, I saw your Mustard and was seriously considering going that route. I love that Mustard yellow color. I'm going to try and post some pictures of the final outcome of the body and paint tomorrow. Thanks again for your detailed build thread and I can't wait to follow your next one.
Cool Thanks, I'm in Fort Wayne. I do a lot of work in Indy, currently working on a job in Franklin. Probably be working down there off and on for the next few months. Country Cruisers in Ridgeville, probably has a hood. Their number is (765)748-4926 and email address is countrycruisers4x4@frontier.com. We will have to get together some day for a drink and some cruiser talk. I tried to get in touch with the Hoosier Cruiser Club a chapter of Toyota Landcruiser Association, but had no luck. IDK, It may not exist anymore. I'd love to see some other cruisers, meet some other enthusiasts, do a drive or whatever. Look forward to seeing some details of your build on here.
