Burned FJ

[Trollhole]

Don't know if this is a repost or not if so mod just delete.

 

[CPJONES1231]

I wonder how much they want for those rims??

 

[greytandy]

Anybody know the story behind this?

 

[Brazenhead]

What a shame, i feel bad for that FJ

 

[CELICA XX]

Hmm... never seen that before.

Maybe some type of test vehicle, because the car was spray painted BEFORE it was burned...

 

[haulin79]

I read it was a Toyota prototype and thus had to destroy it so it will never be used on the road.

 

[Mustard Dog]

I read it was a Toyota prototype and thus had to destroy it so it will never be used on the road.

Interesting.

I would think Toyota has the resources to crush thier throw away cars instead of torching them in the middle of the desert.

 

[cruiser88]

tree huggers

 

[Mustard Dog]

tree huggers

 

[cruiser88]

the same dam people that want to close all of the trails

 

[haulin79]

For what it's worth, it looks like the spray painted numbers were painted before it was burned. That makes me think they burned it on purpose for whatever reason.

 

[4WD Toyota Owner Magazine]

Photoshop.

 

[4WD Toyota Owner Magazine]

The shattered front end is odd...WTF happened here? Trollholl, can you PM me where you found this photo?

 

[78 FJ40 - 07 Cruiser]

http://www.tlc4x4.com/UniqueCruister_View.asp?UniquerCrusierID=31

TLC prototype.

I am sure someone over there could give you more info.

 

[notyourmomslx450]

The shattered front end is odd...WTF happened here? Trollholl, can you PM me where you found this photo?

I don't know if it's shattered as much as it is burnt/melted away.

 

[Pluton]

the same dam people that want to close all of the trails

Yes, and what better way to piss-off the managers than to abandon burned vehicles. (of course it could be on private land, and they could have completely cleaned it up after the photo was taken.)

 

[calstyl2]

Its a good chance that it was a factory prototype/ early model that was given to the insurance industry for vehicle fire investigation. When cars are torched they burn differerent depending on where the fire is started, IE motor compartment or interior. The insurance companies look at the way the car burns for patterns, I know one insurance investigator here in SoCal who had forty Hondas to to burn and he did. The paint on the side is a good indication of that use
good chance it was done at a automotive proving grounds in Arizona, Nevada or California
Socal fireman

 

[78 FJ40 - 07 Cruiser]

Its a good chance that it was a factory prototype/ early model that was given to the insurance industry for vehicle fire investigation. When cars are torched they burn differerent depending on where the fire is started, IE motor compartment or interior. The insurance companies look at the way the car burns for patterns, I know one insurance investigator here in SoCal who had forty Hondas to to burn and he did. The paint on the side is a good indication of that use
good chance it was done at a automotive proving grounds in Arizona, Nevada or California
Socal fireman

Really, all you have to do it right click the picture and it gives you the properties. It resides on TLCs websight, and the caption says they torched it for "therapy" before scrapping it.

 

[jfonz]

Does that look like it might have blue paint underneath the yellow? If so I think that thing was at sema out by the Rock Krawling arena. I was looking at it at sema and notice one the big fat piller that there was some blue paint showing at the top because of a bad masking job, indicating a repaint from the original blue to yellow.. I wonder if its the same one...

It looks like theres a littel bit of blue paint uncovered on the door and some other areas....

 

[78 FJ40 - 07 Cruiser]

I saw the blue on there too and wondered why they would use blue "primer" LOL

I would guess it went something like this. Paint the serial number on the side and photograph it first. Then destroy it beyond repair and take another picture so we know you destroyed it and we have no liability for that unit making it back on the road. I would think burning it and releasing the photo to the public was not exactly what Toyota had in mind. DOH