Epitaph for a Great FJ-60 (1 Viewer)

[sanchius]

I was posting to another forum about the great Colorado Pull-n-Pay yards and thought I'd post this here...

"By the end of 5 teenage drivers, our old beater land cruiser was _totally_ used up: bounced hard off-road, run into innumerous stationary and moving objects, totalled at least two other cars (I wanted to get a bumper sticker for it that said "LandCruiser: You are my Crush Zone"), cracked windshield, trashed interior, not a straight panel on it, leaking from every gasket and I still got $600 for it at the local Pull-n-Pay a few years ago (after I sold the ARB Bumper, tow hitch & roof rack separately).

I don't usually let my cars go like that, but the gas mileage was so bad that I told the kids I was done fixing it; have fun and run it hard until it drops.

And they did just that."

Our Land Crusher was a great 4x4, easily besting the Jeeps, Pathfinders and Blazers at a tricky hill-climb on one of our trips.

It never failed us and it was great to gear-down and point it uphill.

It opened up a whole new world for us in back country Colorado, visiting mines, mountain passes, plane wrecks and awesome campsites that we would have never discovered without it.

We had some great adventures with that vehicle...

RIP and may its parts that live on in other landcruisers take them to equally amazing places...



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[chitown40]

Cool story and nice pics.

Thank you for sharing. Post something tech related or it might get moved to chat.

 

[sanchius]

Cool story and nice pics.

Thank you for sharing. Post something tech related or it might get moved to chat.

Arggg, sorry, it's been a couple years since I've been here.
It was FJ60 specific & discussed the outcome of maintenance decline so I dropped it here.
If the mods think chat is more appropriate, feel free to move it.

 

[chitown40]

No worries. I love the story. Just want to keep it here in tech. Tell us some more about the life of the truck and some of the issues, mods, and maintenance done over its life.

 

[SteveH]

How about the last pix you took of it before ditching it?

 

[LAMBCRUSHER]

this thread gives us a baseline amount of abuse a 60 can take, and the result of lack of maintenance that's tech./ but a real cruiser fan wouldn't have given up so easily only 5 teenage drivers? c'mon, that thing was still in its prime!

 

[sanchius]

Sorry, it's long gone but the oil stains in front of the house from the leaking transfer case are still visible on google earth.

It saved at least two lives, taking the hit from a red-light-running Tacoma that would have totally the creamed the little compact car in the next lane.
No injuries, the Taco was totalled and we straightened the cruiser's bumper via the old strap-it-to-a-tree-and-back-up-a-few-times method.

 

[LAMBCRUSHER]

Sorry, it's long gone but the oil stains in front of the house from the leaking transfer case are still visible on google earth.

It saved at least two lives, taking the hit from a red-light-running Tacoma that would have totally the creamed the little compact car in the next lane.
No injuries, the Taco was totalled and we straightened the cruiser's bumper via the old strap-it-to-a-tree-and-back-up-a-few-times method.

tell us a tale...