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Always been a Toyta guy, but now I think I'm a Cruiser guy.
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Mike, try and keep both. Not always the easiest to do. Alot of time and money to commit to keeping both road worthy. Moab sure sounds like alot of fun though. Good luck, Alan.
I had 3 4x4 Toy Truck, 82,83 SWB, and 88 lifted.
Also a brand new 99 Tacoma .
I sold them all, but If I were wheeling like in them days ,I would love to have the 83 back.
But having the 40 makes me not miss them so much.
We also just bought an HJ60 for the family , so I am missing them even less.
IF you don't need to sell it , keep it specially if you plan to restore the 40.
I regreted selling every Toyota I had even my SR5 tercel back in the day. I remember driving it at absolute full speed many times, it was fun when she was flying passed all the other cars back in the 80s, she got me more speeding fines than any other car I had.
Now, everybody tells me that I drive like an old lady.
I am also known as the Toyota man in town, so I know what it is like.
Good luck whatever option you take,
Vic
Also a brand new 99 Tacoma .
I sold them all, but If I were wheeling like in them days ,I would love to have the 83 back.
But having the 40 makes me not miss them so much.
We also just bought an HJ60 for the family , so I am missing them even less.
IF you don't need to sell it , keep it specially if you plan to restore the 40.
I regreted selling every Toyota I had even my SR5 tercel back in the day. I remember driving it at absolute full speed many times, it was fun when she was flying passed all the other cars back in the 80s, she got me more speeding fines than any other car I had.
Now, everybody tells me that I drive like an old lady.
I am also known as the Toyota man in town, so I know what it is like.
Good luck whatever option you take,
Vic
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Had to move the 4Runner today to get to the snowmobiles. She fired right up. I think it would be hard to give up on a vehical thats always ready to run.
I have been spending the holidays reading through the build threads gathering inspiration to start on my 75 FJ40. I came across this thread and I had to respond.
The following quotes are fantastic and they suite my situation to a "T".
"Some is good. But more is better.
Have a quiver of rides and then relish the selection."
"As long as they're both paid for, it costs you nothing but insurance and space to keep them.
They are both unique rides with unique uses."
I must be the luckiest guy in the world. My wife is the reason I am awash in cars. She never wants to get rid of any of them. It started in 1972 two months before we got married. She just had to have a 1967 Austin Healey 3000. We drove it for two years and when my VW bus was totaled we got a new Cutlass. The Healey was garaged and then started its odyssey from body shop to body shop.
We still have it an it will be finished in the next year or so...maybe.
In 1984 she had to have a 300ZX ( we should have finished the Healey)...We now have two of them. I hated the car until I discovered autoX. I raced it for four years until I decided that it needed to go on a diet. An 84 Z in mint condition, her answer was no, so I bought my own to race.
In 86 or so I bought a Jeep Cherokee, she hated it and wanted a Jeep safari. So a few years later we compromised and got a 75 FJ40. She kind of liked it but it is hard to drive. In 1996 we got an Lexus LX450.
We still have all of them but the Cutlass and the Jeep. The Lexus and one of the Z's are driven daily. The other Z will be up and running by next race season. The Healey...well who knows. The body shops are like free storage.
The 75 FJ40 is all in pieces. The frame has been sandblasted and primed and is leaning up against the wall in the garage in front of the race Z. As soon as the engine is back in the race car I will have ordered the suspension parts and will get started on it. When I get to that point I will start a build thread of my own.
I just want to thank everyone for the inspiration and add my .02. Keep them both if you can, you will hate yourself if you let it go.
The following quotes are fantastic and they suite my situation to a "T".
"Some is good. But more is better.
Have a quiver of rides and then relish the selection."
"As long as they're both paid for, it costs you nothing but insurance and space to keep them.
They are both unique rides with unique uses."
I must be the luckiest guy in the world. My wife is the reason I am awash in cars. She never wants to get rid of any of them. It started in 1972 two months before we got married. She just had to have a 1967 Austin Healey 3000. We drove it for two years and when my VW bus was totaled we got a new Cutlass. The Healey was garaged and then started its odyssey from body shop to body shop.
We still have it an it will be finished in the next year or so...maybe.
In 1984 she had to have a 300ZX ( we should have finished the Healey)...We now have two of them. I hated the car until I discovered autoX. I raced it for four years until I decided that it needed to go on a diet. An 84 Z in mint condition, her answer was no, so I bought my own to race.
In 86 or so I bought a Jeep Cherokee, she hated it and wanted a Jeep safari. So a few years later we compromised and got a 75 FJ40. She kind of liked it but it is hard to drive. In 1996 we got an Lexus LX450.
We still have all of them but the Cutlass and the Jeep. The Lexus and one of the Z's are driven daily. The other Z will be up and running by next race season. The Healey...well who knows. The body shops are like free storage.
The 75 FJ40 is all in pieces. The frame has been sandblasted and primed and is leaning up against the wall in the garage in front of the race Z. As soon as the engine is back in the race car I will have ordered the suspension parts and will get started on it. When I get to that point I will start a build thread of my own.
I just want to thank everyone for the inspiration and add my .02. Keep them both if you can, you will hate yourself if you let it go.
The 40 is a purl-er , good find. I reckon if you keep them both one would get less attention in the long run. Keep one sell the other and go all out.
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I'm amazed at all our (4 wheelers) simularities. I autoX a 81 VW Rabbit for a few years until I was hit head on by a drunk driver in a Jeep no less. I ended up with a nice set of stitches in my forhead, and my wife received a compound fracture of her forarm, but we were lucky enough to walk away just those injury's. Thats when I got my first Toyota brand new 87 4x4 pick up. Started wheeling in 1990, but went back to auto crossing when my son was born in 94 for a year in my 89 VW GTL. Than I went back to wheeling the pick up until we got the 4Runner 2002. I would like to do both but I don't have the time or the $$$$$$$.
