Field find 1965 FJ45 SWB restoration with BTB Products

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These are the original seats from the truck after they were rebuilt. They were completely disassembled, and then the frames were bead blasted, powder coated, and re-assembled with ultra vinyl and memory foam padding.

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Miscellaneous parts bead blasted and ready for paint.

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The body tub is painted and starting to re-assemble with brake booster/master and hard-formed brake lines across the firewall.

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Engine compartment completed. It’s a very clean firewall as all unnecessary holes have been filled. Battery is setup at the firewall and exposed wiring kept to a minimum.

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Interior is kept simple. Seats installed and excess dash holes filled and metal finished. A new BTB dash assembly with Auto-Meter gauges has been installed.

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A Vintage Air air conditioning unit has been installed with a Retro Sound radio in the dash. Line-X coating has been applied to both inside floor and under cab areas. It was also added to both sides of the truck bed.

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The end result! The owner lives in Ohio. He had some graphics made for the doors with his name associated with the truck. This is the fourth Land Cruiser BTB has built for him.

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Port side view.

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That is a sweet build.. Nice and vintage looking with all new performance.

The only thing I would do is used the low profile aqualu fender flares that match nicely with their tubs, and have invisible mounting.

Congrats on the build.

Want to share the cost? :)
 
Ha! Correct acorn hubcaps! What was the build time for this?

Hi Whitey45, it was about two years, with several other Cruiser builds going on also at the same time.
 
It has AC and a 700r4 so it seems its meant for long cruises but then has the old bench seats which most people could only tolerate for a hour or so? It has a orion thats meant for offroad and is kinda noisy if its just a highway driver and this thing is likely never going to see dirt unless its blowing in the wind? The original ultra rare front and rear pto output tcase was tossed because??? And the original fairly rare pto winch was tossed for a fancy new but common 8274 you can buy at any offroad shop why? Im sure at a car show full of GTO's and corvettes it will turn some of those guys heads. Its insightful to see what some people are having shops do to cruisers. I imagine if this was a nut and bolt restoration back to showroom condition with stock motor it would fetch 80k or more Im guessing? I wonder what it would fetch in this v8 rendition?


Precisely. You may as well start from an Aqualu frame and body so you're not killing off Cruiser history.
 

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