This is my first post on MUD, so please don’t chew me up too much! I’ve been reading through the forum since this summer. I live in Indianapolis, and while browsing for cars on the internet found a built Land Cruiser for sale out of Ed Martin Toyota(@Eric Sarjeant ). I was incredibly intrigued and convinced the wife to go take a look at it. She initially went with me assuming that she wouldn’t like it. We got to the dealership and instantly found the white LC. We drove it and immediately wanted it. Given the timing, things didn’t work out for us to purchase it, but we stayed in touch with Eric and his team. Dropping in monthly and following builds he had in progress. All the while, I was thinking what exactly I wanted to do for our build. It really is fascinating how much they do with Land Cruisers!
As mentioned above I’ve been on MUD a LOT since we saw our first built land cruiser. I was on it enough to notice that another active member who just had Eric build a white LC was now having him build another! This motivated me to stop in and see Eric! We connected and I confirmed that he would be collecting the originally built white LC. I had asked him if I could see it when it comes in, he smiled and told me that he’d let me know when it came in.
My wife and I went to check it out on Monday and left with it that night! My wife had one request; she had asked if we could remove the red center caps and replace them with black ones. Eric pulled out some bronze ones he had at the shop. He held them up to our truck and they looked perfect. They made the swap there and we drove off(after going through all of the paperwork). We literally drove home in a snow storm and I enjoyed every minute of it!
We were coming from a 2014 Crew Cab Raptor that sat high, so the transfer to this built LC was very fluid. I’m in sales and think the LC has a much better look to it; compared to the Raptor. That and everybody seems to have one these days.. My dad has a 2007 FJ and it’s been an absolute beast. It takes everything with a smile and asks for more! This helped me lean towards a Toyota as my next purchase.
I do have some short-term plans with the truck, Eric is helping me put a slight rake in it and also helping me get the door moldings painted in Blizzard Pearl. Seriously considering adding a long range tank and might look at powder coating the wheels in the Heritage Bronze. Still debating the wheels...
Below are some pictures of the truck. Again, if you’re active on this forum, you’ve most likely already seen this truck. I do want to send a thank you to the previous owner, without this situation, I don’t know if I would’ve been able to afford one this soon - thank you!
Full chrome delete, blacked out trim. Headlights blacked out. Heritage grill, blacked out. OME BP-51 2" suspension, UCAs. Slee sliders. Black BBS rims. NITTO Terragrappler LT285 65 18.
As mentioned above I’ve been on MUD a LOT since we saw our first built land cruiser. I was on it enough to notice that another active member who just had Eric build a white LC was now having him build another! This motivated me to stop in and see Eric! We connected and I confirmed that he would be collecting the originally built white LC. I had asked him if I could see it when it comes in, he smiled and told me that he’d let me know when it came in.
My wife and I went to check it out on Monday and left with it that night! My wife had one request; she had asked if we could remove the red center caps and replace them with black ones. Eric pulled out some bronze ones he had at the shop. He held them up to our truck and they looked perfect. They made the swap there and we drove off(after going through all of the paperwork). We literally drove home in a snow storm and I enjoyed every minute of it!
We were coming from a 2014 Crew Cab Raptor that sat high, so the transfer to this built LC was very fluid. I’m in sales and think the LC has a much better look to it; compared to the Raptor. That and everybody seems to have one these days.. My dad has a 2007 FJ and it’s been an absolute beast. It takes everything with a smile and asks for more! This helped me lean towards a Toyota as my next purchase.
I do have some short-term plans with the truck, Eric is helping me put a slight rake in it and also helping me get the door moldings painted in Blizzard Pearl. Seriously considering adding a long range tank and might look at powder coating the wheels in the Heritage Bronze. Still debating the wheels...
Below are some pictures of the truck. Again, if you’re active on this forum, you’ve most likely already seen this truck. I do want to send a thank you to the previous owner, without this situation, I don’t know if I would’ve been able to afford one this soon - thank you!
Full chrome delete, blacked out trim. Headlights blacked out. Heritage grill, blacked out. OME BP-51 2" suspension, UCAs. Slee sliders. Black BBS rims. NITTO Terragrappler LT285 65 18.
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It still has the new car smell and I feel like I’m breaking it in for the first time!
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