FJ25 Chat Thread (10 Viewers)

[candp]

I have never seen a china rendering before. Toyota was very big in presenting items like these to prospects. I can't find the detail on the last auction I saw, but what you usually see is the cast metal cigarette cases. There was one that was on ebay that had a similar story behind it, a gift to a family member. Very cool collectible.

Thank you, Cruiser Nerd and all others. I wish my dad was still around to answer my questions. While in Japan our family belonged to the Toyota Motors travel club. Toyota would set up caravans with factory mechanics riding in vans full of spare parts. On one trip up Mount Fuji in a Corona sedan, my dad ran a rock through the transmission. The club towed the car to the nearest dealership and replaced the tranny with a loaner. A week later the repaired tranny was delivered to the dealership nearest to our home and was reinstalled, free of charge!

 

[a.greenspan]

.... a Noritake bone china figurine....

It`s a treasure, would never sell it !!!
Cheers
Peter

 

[JohnnyC]

Thank you, Cruiser Nerd and all others. I wish my dad was still around to answer my questions. While in Japan our family belonged to the Toyota Motors travel club. Toyota would set up caravans with factory mechanics riding in vans full of spare parts. On one trip up Mount Fuji in a Corona sedan, my dad ran a rock through the transmission. The club towed the car to the nearest dealership and replaced the tranny with a loaner. A week later the repaired tranny was delivered to the dealership nearest to our home and was reinstalled, free of charge!

did you dad have any photos? of these trips ....would love to see some cool old toyota pics

 

[candp]

I'll see. I'd be glad to post them for you.

 

[Living in the Past]

Here is the reason I need to get a snow plow mounted to a old cruiser.

Not my cruiser but one that was posted on a local news website. Pictures are from Flagstaff which not to far from my cabin. Roads up to the area have been closed for the last three days. Hopefully will open today.

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Here is the reason I need to get a snow plow mounted to a old cruiser.

I thought I heard 3' in that area?? John, you do know that once you mount a plow it won't snow...................just the way it works.

 

[Trollhole]

I just caught a glimpse of what looked like a Cruiser in a Macy's Polo Ralph Lauren TV commercial. there were two quick shots of a green Cruiser and maybe its just me, but it looked like it had a T-bird on the hood, no bezel, and a hood spear in the first shot. Anyone else see it? Maybe its just too much egg nog...

It was an Icon.

hey, I'm new to this forum. How do. I'm trying to find some info on a Noritake bone china figurine. No, seriously.

My dad spent 27 post WWII years in Japan. My mom was Japanese. Both of them are gone now so I can't ask them. I remember my dad saying that he did some consulting work with Toyota. I think at that time we lived in Nagoya in a Japanese neighborhood. It had to be in the late 50's/ early 60's. Any info about this FJ-25(?) would be appreciated.

Oh my. My new holy grail.

 

[My wife said no FJ!]

Make a coffee, sit down and enjoy...

GRAY EAGLES FILM BY CHRIS WOODS | www.asb.tv

 

[JohnnyC]

23 mm ....boooo whoooo

well the 23mm got me yesterday....i went to change my brakes and couldnt find my 23mm socket to get my lug nuts off

and it was my only one...nobody sems to carry that size...had to hike a bit to find a place with one...i should have bought 2 ...but...one day i'll probably find my other

 

[Living in the Past]

You really need to change them out to the 21mm lugs nuts that were standard with your 74. Trade you a set of 21mm for your 23mm so you won't have this problem again.




You couldn't find a SAE close enough to work? Think a have a four way lug wrench that fit and I don't think it's metric

 

[JohnnyC]

all the 4 way lugs that i saw were 17/19/21/24mm


ones that were 23 in the mix had to be ordered

 

[SouthAussie]

Ohhhhh Ahhhhh that could be

who else would be able to know the frame #?

is anybody near where they keep the fj25?

Hi Guys,
Pics and Chassis number of the Theiss Toyota FJ25 coming your way soon. It's 1960!!!

 

[JohnnyC]

Hi Guys,
Pics and Chassis number of the Theiss Toyota FJ25 coming your way soon. It's 1960!!!

ahhh got down to see it did ya

 

[FJnotCJ]

Some of what I have been working on while I have not been here...now looking for a plane to put in it...3,000 ft2!

 

[My wife said no FJ!]

Hmmm...what you thinking of...something like an old Cub, Hurricane - P-51, or home built?

Very very cool...I'd bring a small indoor RC electric flyer to play

 

[67azcruizr]

Some of what I have been working on while I have not been here...now looking for a plane to put in it...3,000 ft2!

like the electric door opener..........that's spells HOME.

Now let's see the runway

concrete still looks green?

 

[JohnnyC]

Some of what I have been working on while I have not been here...now looking for a plane to put in it...3,000 ft2!

my father was looking for an 1940's Auster or Cub something single wing that he can view the ground better while flying.

if you ever fly around LINY he's a retired mechanic at the last grass airstrip on long island...and the only guy uner 75 years old at the Bayport Areodrome it seems

Welcome to the Bayport Aerodrome Society

love to see what you get

 

[FJnotCJ]

I bought the hanger, it is only a few years old, located at 6S5 (Hamilton,MT)...seems there are a lot of good deals out there these days, I could not have built this for what I paid for it.

Hope to get a fast single, something costing less than a new cruiser while getting better mpg. Ultimate goal is to get the fun back in to flying. I won't build a P-51 untill I get half a dozen 25s built...

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Phil, better get a plane in it before those cruisers multiply in there...................

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Well some of you know about my dark side....................fantasies of power steering, lower gears, big tires and............................disk brakes.


Here's my attempt to score all the swap parts with one donor rig. No worries, you won't be seeing a 25 on 39's yet.................maybe later.

It was all fun and games until it pretty much broke in half..................then we discovered it had four wheel steering when the back spring mounts gave out.