greenbeasty
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It is a very nice build, and good write up by 4WD Toyota Mag. Still hate to loose the old hag.
Field find 1965 FJ45 SWB restoration with BTB Products
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Poor old girl she survied nearly 50 years without being molested.... I just feel sick to my stomach.
Hot damn those bushwhacker flares are crap.
what drives people to make such bad decisions?
what drives people to make such bad decisions?
I think bushwackers look good on 40s with the right tire combo. I have never really seen them on a swb 45 though. And I do think they look out of place on this rig.
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Looks like a really high-quality build using fresh components instead of a junkyard motor.
I suppose the rest of you "feeling sick" or think it's "messed up" would prefer to see it still rotting in a field? Original motors are so cool when they're seized up from sitting for +20 years..
I suppose the rest of you "feeling sick" or think it's "messed up" would prefer to see it still rotting in a field? Original motors are so cool when they're seized up from sitting for +20 years..
It was never said the motor was seized. By simply rebuilding the original motor Trans and super rare dual pto tcase, removing rust, replating components, repainting everything as stock as possible-it would be a 80k rig and continue to rise in value.And as complete and original this rig was it would have been pretty easy to do so. It would have made sense to do so for that reason, and for the reason it's so rare to find a stock swb pickup all original. Now it's worth about half that. To have a resto mod swb 45, aqualu makes frames and bodies. So a original didn't have to be hacked up, it would have looked just as good, and probably been less money in the end.
Tragic. I would. Until the day it would be rescued and restored correctly.
And btw I have an older BTB restomod 40 and it's great. But mine isn't rare like that. This SWB should have been kept stock.
