FJ25 with split windshield?

[My wife said no FJ!]

Just curious…can you not fit the 25/40 hybrid in the container with your other 25? I’d be more than happy to take it off your hands (permitting the price was right) if you found yourself too overburdened with your other projects! Just don’t tell my wife!!

BTW, congratulations on such a great find!! What a great looking Toy! I am particular to the older models myself, and I will be starting our 64’ FJ40 restoration with my daughter this fall. Sorry, no pictures, but I can tell you that it will be all stock apart from the brakes, and trying to hide three 3-point seat belts for safety. It may be a while before my daughter can drive it…which is OK seeing as how she’s only 9 now anyways.

Anyways, there’s my first post! Been reading here for a while, and finally decided to jump in.

Dean

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Dean, good to know there's real people behind all those "visitors" thanks for checking in!

Philip, did you ship already? I bet you can get three 25/40's with no tops in a 40' container if you stack the tail ends of two of them.

 

[My wife said no FJ!]

Thanks Jim, Love reading up and learning...like Project Krusty

Wouldn't mind having a 25 myself (the 40 will eventually be my daughters)...one day hopefully in the not too distant future I'll find one

Dean

 

[ehsankiani]

We have a few 40s with a split windshield like that here in Pakistan. I am yet to see any 25 here.
Ehsan

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

I have some bad news and good news... Bad news is that the fellow who owns the roadside junkyard with the split-windshield FJ25/FJ40 "chimera"/hybrid refuses to sell it............The GOOD news is that today I purchased (for $5,000) the really nice unrestored 1958 FJ25

Looong distance update from PolarBear today. The '58 is in the States...................without him. And he also apparently closed on the hybrid 25/40/split window which he's left behind for now to get worked on locally by his FJ25 expert. A couple pictures of the work in progress:

 

[67azcruizr]

Just wondering if that is a typical mid cross-member on the FJ25's? first picture

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Just wondering if that is a typical mid cross-member on the FJ25's? first picture

Looks that way. A single downward dip in the center.

 

[PolarBear]

Many thanks to Jim for his assistance in posting these two photos. I received them late last month from my buddy in El Salvador who is rebuilding/restoring the rusty old split-windshield 1958 FJ25 (a "hybrid"/hermaphrodite w/ FJ40 parts) that I found and purchased for $600 shortly before I departed El Salvador last July (for onward assignment to Manila--where I'm writing from now). He's making progress with this project primarily by adapting used FJ40 parts. If my interpretation of his Spanish is correct, in the month since these two photos were taken, he has gotten the rig back up on its feet, with axle ("eje"), completed steering ("direccion"), leaf springs ("hojas de resortes"), etc.; now we're moving on to obtaining/installing a decent "F" engine (I have what's left of the rig's original engine [#F88812], and hope to rebuild and reinstall it someday), finishing up brakes ("frenos") and wiring before moving onto bodywork ("carroceria"), and repainting ("pintura"). If you look at the earlier photos in this thread that show how the machine looked when I first spotted it last June in a roadside junkyard at San Andres (El Salvador), you can see that we're at least making some progress!

As Jim points out in his photo caption, I was also able to obtain (for $5,000) the other, darker-blue 1958 FJ25 that I found up in Atiquizaya (Ahuachapan province, El Salvador) in excellent unrestored condition (ca. 50K original miles); it is already back home safe and sound in northwest Arkansas. Last time I was back home, I got it titled and licensed, gave it its first-ever taste of antifreeze solution (not much needed or used in the Tropics!), and tinkered around with it a bit to address several minor items. It was fun tooling around town in it! Heaven help me, but I sure am fond of these old FJ25s; don't really know why, but perhaps because they're so anachronistic/iconoclastic, and/or because they were the original greatgranddad of something that went on to become so big. My Salvadoran buddy who's restoring mine has yet a third 1958 FJ25 (I think it's the one just visible to the left of mine in the first photo above) that he restored for his son, but that he may eventually part with. (His son has no interest in said FJ25.) He has painted it a dark metallic green; may not be an authentic color, but it's awfully pretty. Hell, I may just have to have that one, too, before it's all said and done. Someone please just shoot me!

 

[JohnnyC]

Someone please just shoot me!

we'll have none of that....you are doing some great things...bring more of these babys to the usa

 

[Wayneraintree]

Thanks for sharing the pics and information on your 25! I miss mine badly but it is great to see yours safe and in good hands.

 

[Cruiser_Nerd]

Polar Bear is still out there and plugging away at the split window. It recently received a new motor (the original set aside for the future )

 

[My wife said no FJ!]

Still love this split window...hope he repaints it the same blue.