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SILVER Star
Sometime early last year, I picked up another truck from my good friend @joekatana. It started life as a 1989 RHD BJ74. Over its lifetime, @rick_d converted it to left hand drive, dropped in a 1HDT or two, and added a few more things. It made its way to Joe, and then to me.
Joe did a bunch of work including adding in a rollbar to keep my kids safe in the backseat.
It has been my daily driver for the past six months. As much as I enjoy its green FRP top, I just couldn’t get images of factory soft tops out of my head. I kept thinking back to @OGBeno’s BJ70 and @FJ73Texas’ sweet FST 73.
I started collecting parts. I’ve spent nearly 9 months collecting every single part to do this conversion. It’s not a small list. It took Partsouq, Dave @Japan4X4, Toyota USA, and a bunch of parts from Yemen.
Yesterday was the big day where I moderately naïvely thought I would just unbolt the FRP, bolt on the new top, and happily drive home. Yeah, right.
Joe did a bunch of work including adding in a rollbar to keep my kids safe in the backseat.
It has been my daily driver for the past six months. As much as I enjoy its green FRP top, I just couldn’t get images of factory soft tops out of my head. I kept thinking back to @OGBeno’s BJ70 and @FJ73Texas’ sweet FST 73.
I started collecting parts. I’ve spent nearly 9 months collecting every single part to do this conversion. It’s not a small list. It took Partsouq, Dave @Japan4X4, Toyota USA, and a bunch of parts from Yemen.
Yesterday was the big day where I moderately naïvely thought I would just unbolt the FRP, bolt on the new top, and happily drive home. Yeah, right.