1983 FJ40 USA registry
Greg,
I've often wondered who was the source of that "300-shipped" number.
The published factory figures I have found indicate 6191 FJ40s were manufactured during the 1983 calendar year.
The only breakout I have seen is that 58 of those were "Euro-spec."
There were many specialized country-specs towards the last years of production, not just for the USA: Hong Kong, New South Wales, Victoria, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, Oman, etc..
The difficulty with a survey is that not every owner can or will respond.
The only definitive answer would come from someone with access to old company ledgers, either in Japan or the US.
Along these lines, as with rare exotic cars, the number of vehicles remaining has a bearing on their value. I often read existing numbers for Ferraris and antique cars used to justify stratospheric asking prices.
But I've never read just how they arrive at those numbers very accurately.
I wonder how much is guessing or wishful thinking.
Seems like an awful lot of work to reconcile a production number(if ever found) with the number still in existence.
Anyway, good luck on your quest.