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Then there were three.

Posting this up here because I had to tell someone and you’ll “get it”.

In my six (+) decades of wandering through the outskirts of Nod, I’ve only seen two 40 series LC’s. One in the wild during a hunting outing in the 70’s and one in captivity at the local Toyota dealership thats been on display since the 80’s.

I was out slogging through the slush in the Tundra day before yesterday. Up ahead in a series of “S” turns I caught a flash of bright blue. A few seconds later I saw the unmistakable Cygnus white hue of a 40 series grill disappear into another curve.
I slowed down and waited. Around the bend, slogging through the salt slurry, was a mid seventies sky blue LC.

If Big foot had strolled up to my window and asked me for a light I would have been less surprised than seeing another “40” slowly waddling along the byways of Babylon. I can only imagine what was going through the operators head as he passed the grey bearded lunatic bouncing up and down in the front seat of a pickup and blasting away on the horn 🙄. Judging by his stressed induced posture and horrified look, I’m guessing he was more shocked than I was.

Took a little extra time yesterday while running my honey do errands in a vain attempt at “40 spotting”. No luck.


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Being from the land of unsalted roads, it has taken me a couple of decades of perusing this forum, but I now have an autonomic wince whenever I read the words salt and Cruiser in the same sentence. Thus I would use the word bittersweet in conjunction with any sightings during this time of year.
 
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Chungas Revenge said:
Then there were three.

Posting this up here because I had to tell someone and you’ll “get it”.

In my six (+) decades of wandering through the outskirts of Nod, I’ve only seen two 40 series LC’s. One in the wild during a hunting outing in the 70’s and one in captivity at the local Toyota dealership thats been on display since the 80’s.

I was out slogging through the slush in the Tundra day before yesterday. Up ahead in a series of “S” turns I caught a flash of bright blue. A few seconds later I saw the unmistakable Cygnus white hue of a 40 series grill disappear into another curve.
I slowed down and waited. Around the bend, slogging through the salt slurry, was a mid seventies sky blue LC.

If Big foot had strolled up to my window and asked me for a light I would have been less surprised than seeing another “40” slowly waddling along the byways of Babylon. I can only imagine what was going through the operators head as he passed the grey bearded lunatic bouncing up and down in the front seat of a pickup and blasting away on the horn 🙄. Judging by his stressed induced posture and horrified look, I’m guessing he was more shocked than I was.

Took a little extra time yesterday while running my honey do errands in a vain attempt at “40 spotting”. No luck.


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I have the same reaction when I see a 40 in the wild
 
I’ve learned my “salt” lessons 5 decades ago. Come winter season, we’re good until that first snowfall. After that I wait two good rains before heading out on the road. Matters not if it’s below zero…if there’s no salt yet…perfect
 
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I'll run my 40 "in the wild", but never venture onto salty roads.
 
65swb45 said:
Being from the land of unsalted roads, it has taken me a couple of decades of perusing this forum, but I now have an autonomic wince whenever I read the words salt and Cruiser in the same sentence. Thus I would use the word bittersweet in conjunction with any sightings during this time of year.
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The part I didn’t mention was it looked “clean and unseasoned”. After my initial shock, my second thought was “What in the wild world of sports is he doing tooling through the slosh”?

I can say that before I saw the light, and left the ranks of the unwashed masses, that 1.0 was put through more than one baptism by salt. Every time I think of my past transgressions I take on that guilty, repentant manner of the recently converted 😇.

I travel that road most days. Hope I get the chance to meet the O/O.

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65swb45 said:
autonomic wince whenever I read the words salt and Cruiser in the same sentence. Thus I would use the word bittersweet in conjunction with any sightings during this time of year.
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knuckle47 said:
I’ve learned my lesson”salt” lessons 5 decades ago. Come winter season, we’re good until that first snowfall. After that I wait two good rains before heading out on the road. Matters not if it’s below zero…if there’s no salt yet…perfect
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pb4ugo said:
I'll run my 40 "in the wild", but never venture onto salty roads.
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I figure at the salty pace my 40 is showing rust, the annual anti-rust preventive work I do, and the fact I built it to drive it year round, I'm guessing the X axis and Y axis of the graph of my life expectancy and that of my 40 will meet somewhere around the same time.

Until then.......
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No quarter in the Land of Nod.


Temps creeping up into the mid teens this AM. Sodium scourge is still lurking outside the wire. So I’m just biding time and doing what I can to keep the fluids doing fluid stuff. A couple of minutes at 1k RPM, couple at 800 and fifteen minutes on impulse power.

Old Air/heat upgrade continues to impress. At 16* F today/1000hrs the system pumped warm toasty air into the cab. We’re do some warmer temps and rain in the not to distant future. I want to see how it holds up out on the Nurburgring later after the sodium scourge is no longer an issue.

Talked with the upholstery shop via telephone ref: matching the door cards w/the upholstery. Honestly, I’m on the fence. The current black cards have grown on me in a dark monochromatic way.

Still haven’t sprung for a new winch. I’ve been feeding funds to the ever growing appetite of the Meade Hall. Holding out for a Bday endowment from Ms Revenge. I’ve given her the best forlorn sad face look I could muster. We’ll see if I ”still got it” come April 😉.

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The Land of Nod is starting to thaw (a bit).

Doing my due diligence to keep up on my scheduled dino rotation(s).

Mundane? Yup. Standard two pumps on a half choke. Rocked the flow outside for about fifteen minutes. Normal procedure-1000k to 600rpm on the RPM ticker. Heater on and pumping cushy warm air. Headlight functions, blinkers are blinkering, fog light piercing the BG, and the horn is still slightly annoying. Calling that good.

Hoping to pull range duty next week. 🫡

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Spring shake down cruise…of sorts.


Had blue sky and a good tail wind on Sunday. Hit the trifecta. Auto parts store, hardware store and grocery store. If the weather holds we’re headed to the skeet range Friday.

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I had this semi lucid daydream for a business start up once. I was going to call it ATF-F. Alcohol, tobacco, firearms and fishing.


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The three essentials
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Speaking of hallucinations:

Decades ago, I thought about a luggage delivery service…for people traveling in US destination vacation places…. Have them call for a pickup…ship their luggage to the hotel they are staying at so that when they travel, they only need the typical small carry-on for essentials…

name?; UBS. United Baggage Service

Of course traveling today has to suck with all of the oddball delays and cancellations…but…20 or 30 years ago it might have been a hit
 
knuckle47 said:
Speaking of hallucinations:

Decades ago, I thought about a luggage delivery service…for people traveling in US destination vacation places…. Have them call for a pickup…ship their luggage to the hotel they are staying at so that when they travel, they only need the typical small carry-on for essentials…

name?; UBS. United Baggage Service

Of course traveling today has to suck with all of the oddball delays and cancellations…but…20 or 30 years ago it might have been a hit
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For the five years that I managed to fly to the east coast for Landcruiser events, I shipped all my camping gear ahead of time so that I could just have a carry on bag on the plane. Mostly it was to friend’s houses. But once I think it was to Iron Pig.

Good times.😊
 
We always rode to Daytona Bike Week…from NJ….granted they were H-D full touring bikes but 1400 in 2 days was still a chore. We usually shipped everything to either a shipping store or the hotels and traveled light rather than like a pack mule.

The one comment I’ll never forget was the lady in the toll-booth at the Delaware Memorial Bridge…” man, I’ve seen a lot of motorcycles pass thru here today…but you’re the only two riding ‘em”
 
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Mule about town.

Gym/errand morning.

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