I thought it was fitting to start a build thread as today marks 15 years since my 100 series was driven home off the lot from the new owners... September 13, 1999 with a whopping 55 miles on the odometer. I just found the original registration in the glove box. It's got a few more now. I bought the cruiser a few weeks ago and have been cleaning it up, base lining the maintenance and driving it daily.
I bought the 100 series after searching for a clean 60/62 turned out to be a tougher than i thought. I was finding nice clean 60s and 62s but they are starting to fetch big money. That and the fact tht I wanted to swap in a V8 and the platform quickly became expensive. Once reality set in on the 60/62 search, I had to decide between the amazing 80 and 100 series. Everyone knows the 80 is perhaps Toyota's all time best off road machine out of the box. But since I already have a lifted FJ40 with 35s' and since clean/locked 80's are getting tougher to find, we decided that the 100 series fit our family of 5 perfectly. Our main goals with this cruiser are hauling the family on camping adventures, touring the western national parks, family road trips and sloshing the ski gear to the mountiains during our ski seasons.
I'll document my build along the way, for now I am cleaning it up, addressing the few issues that I know exist, and driving it.
Here's where I am coming from, I've daily driven my 40 for over 15 years and I am just the second owner. I built the trailer for camping, back country adventures and hunting. You can see the whole build thread in my sig line.
And here is our new to us 100 Series...
And here it sits 4 years later... current in Sept 2018.
Rock River Green Mica with tan leather interior, it snowed yesterday here in Denver and I enjoyed the heated leather seats tremendously.
I bought the 100 series after searching for a clean 60/62 turned out to be a tougher than i thought. I was finding nice clean 60s and 62s but they are starting to fetch big money. That and the fact tht I wanted to swap in a V8 and the platform quickly became expensive. Once reality set in on the 60/62 search, I had to decide between the amazing 80 and 100 series. Everyone knows the 80 is perhaps Toyota's all time best off road machine out of the box. But since I already have a lifted FJ40 with 35s' and since clean/locked 80's are getting tougher to find, we decided that the 100 series fit our family of 5 perfectly. Our main goals with this cruiser are hauling the family on camping adventures, touring the western national parks, family road trips and sloshing the ski gear to the mountiains during our ski seasons.
I'll document my build along the way, for now I am cleaning it up, addressing the few issues that I know exist, and driving it.
Here's where I am coming from, I've daily driven my 40 for over 15 years and I am just the second owner. I built the trailer for camping, back country adventures and hunting. You can see the whole build thread in my sig line.
And here is our new to us 100 Series...
And here it sits 4 years later... current in Sept 2018.
Rock River Green Mica with tan leather interior, it snowed yesterday here in Denver and I enjoyed the heated leather seats tremendously.
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