Hello from Portugal
Please allow to present my recently acquired FJ70 . It is in very good condition and has only 61200 km . It was bought new in 1990 at Peking , China , by the former Portuguese ambassador some months after he was appointed to that job , in 1989 . He stayed in Peking until 1993 and then was appointed ambassador to Moscow , tooking the FJ70 with him . He stayed as ambassador at Moscow until 1997 , where his diplomatic career ended and he retired ( not a young fellow ) , returning to Portugal and bringing the FJ , registering it with Portuguese license plates in 1998 . He lived just a few km away from me and serviced the FJ70 at the local dealership where I saw it several times . Tried to buy it a few times , but no luck ! In 2012 , I was told that the FJ was sold by his niece , to someone near Lisbon , and I lost track of this car until it showed for sale at the end of November 2025 in a local used car online platform . The price was too high for me and I let it sit for almost two months , before I contacted the seller . Not a single person showed interest buying it and that was predictable in Portugal . The FJ has a 3F engine , four litre , carburetor , 6 cylinder engine . Lowest grade of petrol, costs here north of 2 Euros per litre ! Only a somewhat deranged Land Cruiser guy like me would buy it , and after hard negotiations , we agreed to a decent price , and I brought the FJ with me , driving 300 km to my house at Viana do Castelo ( North of Portugal ) . Engine good , no misfires , started always good , but with a somewhat dangerous issue : only the right front wheel was braking
! A bit of a crazy trip , pouring rain , and very little traffic , I arrived safely 5 hours later .
Now for the FJ specs :
FJ70 LV-KR ; Chassis # FJ70-0014205 , production date 05-1990 .
3F carburated engine ; 4 speed manual with transfer ; No power steering ; 4 drum brakes all around , no automatic seat belts ; no free locking front hubs from factory ( fitted later ) ; open diffs ; front bench seat 3 places , rear parallel seats ; Original Toyota AM radio ; Original cassette Toyota player . STD , poverty pack , but factory AC ( not working yet ) . But all this talk is nothing without pics and there they are . These first 4 are the next day I arrived . You can see also my HZJ75 , and my GR Yaris !
Please allow to present my recently acquired FJ70 . It is in very good condition and has only 61200 km . It was bought new in 1990 at Peking , China , by the former Portuguese ambassador some months after he was appointed to that job , in 1989 . He stayed in Peking until 1993 and then was appointed ambassador to Moscow , tooking the FJ70 with him . He stayed as ambassador at Moscow until 1997 , where his diplomatic career ended and he retired ( not a young fellow ) , returning to Portugal and bringing the FJ , registering it with Portuguese license plates in 1998 . He lived just a few km away from me and serviced the FJ70 at the local dealership where I saw it several times . Tried to buy it a few times , but no luck ! In 2012 , I was told that the FJ was sold by his niece , to someone near Lisbon , and I lost track of this car until it showed for sale at the end of November 2025 in a local used car online platform . The price was too high for me and I let it sit for almost two months , before I contacted the seller . Not a single person showed interest buying it and that was predictable in Portugal . The FJ has a 3F engine , four litre , carburetor , 6 cylinder engine . Lowest grade of petrol, costs here north of 2 Euros per litre ! Only a somewhat deranged Land Cruiser guy like me would buy it , and after hard negotiations , we agreed to a decent price , and I brought the FJ with me , driving 300 km to my house at Viana do Castelo ( North of Portugal ) . Engine good , no misfires , started always good , but with a somewhat dangerous issue : only the right front wheel was braking
! A bit of a crazy trip , pouring rain , and very little traffic , I arrived safely 5 hours later .Now for the FJ specs :
FJ70 LV-KR ; Chassis # FJ70-0014205 , production date 05-1990 .
3F carburated engine ; 4 speed manual with transfer ; No power steering ; 4 drum brakes all around , no automatic seat belts ; no free locking front hubs from factory ( fitted later ) ; open diffs ; front bench seat 3 places , rear parallel seats ; Original Toyota AM radio ; Original cassette Toyota player . STD , poverty pack , but factory AC ( not working yet ) . But all this talk is nothing without pics and there they are . These first 4 are the next day I arrived . You can see also my HZJ75 , and my GR Yaris !
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