Color Consideration

[firetruck41]

I looked features first, then stayed away from colors I didn't like, then hoped to find one in my favorite color, I didn't, but am happy with the color I ended up with .

 

[mooker82]

I always like the sage on the 40th or the moonglow pearl. I just happened upon a sage 40th for the right price that looked good. I would have probably taken any color if the price and the condition were right.

 

[G-Cat]

I waited for color, lockers and 40th package. Most guys on here are too cool to care about the 40th stuff, but 1) I like it 2) it didn't cost any more to be patient and 3) the color I liked best happened to be available only on the Anniversary models.

When I started looking, I didn't know how rare lockers were and am now surprised that I looked at 3 of the exact same truck (color, 40th, lockers) before buying the one I did.

 

[Brentbba]

I very much like my emerald green and I bought it on purpose but I think white would have been a better choice. I get all upset when I get in the brush with the dark color...

You're trying to get mine again, aren't you Dan. You can't have it. hehehe

 

[cruzizzle]

I was all over the Sage thing during the early shopping stages, then I looked at a locked '97 Desert Dune CE with 95K for $11,000. The owner was buying a new MDX . I wasn't crazy about it at first, but the truck was near perfect (front rotors/pads & master switch ), the price was right, and the DD really grows on you after a while.

 

[Arleaux]

Color had nothing to do w/ my selection.
I am painting the 80 canteen green or mustard anyway.

 

[wussyPup]

Colour? One, please.

When you bought your 80, did you hold out for the color you wanted or did you go by the options you looked for?

Colour was pretty much at the bottom of the list, but I was buying from a different market than most posters here.

First the mandatory criteria:
1) Age - had to be at least 15 years old, from the manufacture date/month to pass Canadian import requirements.
2) diesel - turbo if available in that series
3) long wheel base - HJ61, HDJ81, or HZJ77
4) factory lockers - FR and RR
5) Rust - none
6) auction grade 3.5 or better
7) low mileage - under 140k Km
8) factory air conditioning

Then, the desirable criteria:
1) 5 speed manual transmission
2) PTO winch
3) factory electric winch
4) solid colour - white is nice

Ples, the stuff worth paying a bit more for:
1) expedition rack
2) centre console cooler
3) rear tyre carrier
4) bumpers

I'd show the pictures of the JDM HJ61s around work to my buddys' great amusement. Picture a two-tone tan on brown with huge orange decals. The orange decals on dark blue weren't any better; the blue decals on dark blue were bearable; but I didn't care, I'd have been thrilled with a clean locked HJ61 at a reasonable price - it didn't happen - I ended up in the 80-series forum instead.

My Cruiser's colour? I'm not sure yet, it was listed as grey-metallic, but some pictures show it as grey, others look more blue. It's still on a ship almost 300 nautical miles offshore and will dock tomorrow evening. Hopefully I can pick it up next week; Happy Christmas to me!

 

[emr88]

I really wanted a white/grey or blue/grey locked LC, but I ended up with a non-locked green LX Color wasn't my highest priority though. I searched for a long time before finding a 1 owner, dealer maintained LX.

 

[RavenTai]

Hopefully I can pick it up next week; Happy Christmas to me!

wow nice find, did not knwo an 80 series was available in 1990, in the states 1990's are FJ62's

 

[OLDGOAT]

I wanted a locked LC in white or beige w/ under 120k mi., but after two months of looking,
I "settled" for a dark green locked LX 450 w/ 113k mi.

Besides black, the dark green is my least favorite color on cruisers,
and mine came with the gold package and chromed stock wheels to boot!
Before I took the running boards off I must have looked like such a turd burgular!

I'm a geologist and am off-road alot for work and dark green
shows absolutely every speck of dust, as well as the "racing stripes" that
I collect from trailside bushes.
Heavy equipment operators I work with can't believe the places I take my Lexus.

But, I must say, when the LX is washed and waxed, that color looks damn good!

 

[taccruiser97]

Well, I wanted either gray or white, not overly excited about white since my 4Runner was white, but white was my second choice, with dark blue coming in third. I had already decided if I found the right one, I would buy it no matter what the color was.

I looked at several cruisers, they were all green or desert dune but not what I was after mileage or price wise.

Lo and behold, I was checking the 4 sale ads in the paper, saw a 97 LC advertised at the Volvo dealer. Went out there, it was a CE, Moonglow Pearl, Oh yeah, low mileage, Great, and the price was what I was willing to pay, and after some haggling, they came down a couple of thousand. Did I mention, it had lockers? Yes it did! Of course, I did not know about the lockers, didn't know about Ih8mud at the time, didn't know what I had, so I guess I basically got lucky with my purchase, especially with the lockers.

This truck has been my favorite Toyota 4x4 without exception.

 

[wussyPup]

thanks

wow nice find, did not knwo an 80 series was available in 1990, in the states 1990's are FJ62's

Thanks.

I'm looking at production dates; I don't know how they relate to model years. As far as I can tell the JDM FJ80s were produced between 1989/05 and 1992/09, and the JDM FJ62s were produced between 1984/09 and 1989/12. My JDM HDJ81 was built in 1990/09.

There'll be no LC under the tree for me after all. Although the ship arrives tomorrow morning, the auto terminal says that they won't be able to release my Cruiser until January.

 

[CodyRx7]

I picked Silver, because my choices were a slightly beat up white 95 LC, an ugly dark green 97 LX, and a like new looking 97 LX in Silver.

The Silver looked more "luxury", and the green reminded me too much of a Subaru Forester.