FJ40 Cross-Country Expedition: Will YOU join us???

[ginmtb]

Vehicle choice for me will vary based on time of year. I'd like to suggest that the route detour from the coast central valley of CA over the Sierra Nevadas past Lake Tahoe and then down the Eastern Sierras. WAY more scenic/rustic, and way more off road opportunities. You could then shoot across 190 into Death Valley and on to LV that way, or keep going south and take the 58, or as @thorslc1977 suggests, a parallel route to LV.

I'm good driving to Tahoe! Definitely more scenic than the drive to SLO. I was thinking I'd stop at every mission along the way and maybe camp at the Pinnacles. But I'm open!

 

[Jpilot]

Cool, I am in Colorado and can go east or west of Boulder for a few miles (maybe 100-150 each way). South to Co springs, North towards WY.

 

[hecrod]

All depends in timing... 44 is 'down' right now... I hope to have her operational again in a week...

Danny is 'down' right now... Seeing a spine surgeon on Monday...

Please change pngunme to allan man, for now... I'll post here when I am again available, to run with @jetranger and @allan man.

Well... good Luck on Monday... best of luck...

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Regarding a 'baton'... I'm not sure how passing a baton would work, when you have multiple, simultaneous segments active...

Just wondering...

It will likely be a different baton per Leg. Depending on timing, and "type of baton" It could be mailed to others to carry on their Legs... but I'd say that would be optional. I suggest we treat each Leg here individually and as its own trip. We'll have then a separate map highlighting completed trips...





Wow... 20+ signing up on Day 1... pretty solid response!!!

Below is a screenshot of where we are right now... you can access this Google Map here... if you "hover" over the figures (once you open the link), the names corresponding to the figures are highlighted on the left. Please let me know if I have everything right distance/location-wise.

Some thoughts:

• Yellowknifer... man-o-man! You're on top of the world! I gave you some additional distance... it may be the only chance we may have at somehow connecting you with others down the road. Thank you for signing up!
• The yellow figures denotes owners who are willing to give it a go, but months down the road... that is probably going to be OK.
• A trip along the West Coast (@65swb45 or through the Eastern Sierras) may be the first one that's completed. Maybe even later this year??? Just need the OR and WA kids to be made aware of this. Getting others in CA to sign up would also be great...
• A few people in the mid-Atlantic sign up... and we may be able to get an Atlantic Coast Leg going soon too!

Good Stuff guys...

 

[4Cruisers]

I'm in for bakersfield to las vegas even have a route mapped out with only 22 miles of paved road out of approx 250 miles total

That's the spirit. I was thinking of the same.

My '76 FJ40 is running well but not well enough for long distance travel on major paved highways; however, last summer I drove it down from our campsite at O'Haver Lake outside of Salida, CO into town, then up to the top of Monarch Pass on US 50 - thank goodness there are long stretches of passing lane for other vehicles to whiz by me . The next day we did a very narrow rough road over a high pass into Bonanza, and down to US 285. We braved a long stretch of paved highway over Poncha Pass.

Speaking of paved roads, once I cross the street from my house (north-central New Mexico) on the north edge of town, you could walk almost straight north up to Aspen, CO and only have to cross five more paved roads or streets, NM 96, US 64/84, US 160, US 50, and Gunnison CR 12. So if I decide to sign up, north it is!

 

[RWBeringer4x4]

Regarding a 'baton'... I'm not sure how passing a baton would work, when you have multiple, simultaneous segments active...

Just wondering...

I feel like there's enough coarse spline or otherwise broken birfields laying around after disc brake swaps that we have enough batons . Very fitting for a nationwide parade of old Toyotas, to boot.

Maybe each leg signs a ribbon or streamer - drivers, miles traveled, start and end points, and ties it to the birf cage? Ends up looking like a droopy Olympic torch of signed streamers?

 

[Walkerm916]

I would be down to do this however I would need a time line on when I would need to do my leg I have to get the 40 running and I also have time constraints because of the military but I would be willing to go from the Barstow, CA area to as far as central Texas.

 

[65swb45]

I feel like there's enough coarse spline or otherwise broken birfields laying around after disc brake swaps that we have enough batons . Very fitting for a nationwide parade of old Toyotas, to boot.

Don't be a hater.

 

[POTATO LAUNCHER]

That's the spirit. I was thinking of the same.

My '76 FJ40 is running well but not well enough for long distance travel on major paved highways; however, last summer I drove it down from our campsite at O'Haver Lake outside of Salida, CO into town, then up to the top of Monarch Pass on US 50 - thank goodness there are long stretches of passing lane for other vehicles to whiz by me . The next day we did a very narrow rough road over a high pass into Bonanza, and down to US 285. We braved a long stretch of paved highway over Poncha Pass.

Speaking of paved roads, once I cross the street from my house (north-central New Mexico) on the north edge of town, you could walk almost straight north up to Aspen, CO and only have to cross five more paved roads or streets, NM 96, US 64/84, US 160, US 50, and Gunnison CR 12. So if I decide to sign up, north it is!

I'd be happy to carry a broken birf. Hell I'd even donate to the cause. From my area to central Northern NM and or Souther CO is no problem. A leg involving The Great Sand Dunes NP is easily done. Would include a night on Medano Pass.

 

[cult45]

Turns out you lads will need a bit more than some spare gas for our leg.

 

[4Cruisers]

I'd be happy to carry a broken birf. Hell I'd even donate to the cause. From my area to central Northern NM and or Souther CO is no problem. A leg involving The Great Sand Dunes NP is easily done. Would include a night on Medano Pass.

Medano Pass is great. It's been a long, long time since I've been up there to camp - I drove my '84 FJ60 on that trip because it was before I bought my FJ40s and FJ62. I was thinking of hiking up to Medano Lake and climbing Mount Herard just above the lake sometime later this year anyway. A leg from there up the east side of the northern Sangre de Cristos through South Park could tie into a route from there north.

 

[hecrod]

I would be down to do this however I would need a time line on when I would need to do my leg I have to get the 40 running and I also have time constraints because of the military but I would be willing to go from the Barstow, CA area to as far as central Texas.

This could be quite helpful...

Would you be willing to head towards Colorado instead of Texas? That would create a connection from CA into NV, CO (@Rat Rod Rusty @Jpilot) and then TX (@POTATO LAUNCHER, @1911). It would also be a little shorter for you...

As far as timing... can't promise anything... but this is moving quick! Maybe before the end of the year?

 

[POTATO LAUNCHER]

I'd hate to exclude anyone that wants to participate in this opportunity to be part of an epic nationwide excursion. Do we need to set a time line that would allow interested parties to finish dependability issues with their 40's?

 

[JohnnyC]

@cult45

We just need a few of our pilot mud members to 'transport' the item that will be relayed to the over seas areas

Or...

Mail it

 

[cult45]

@cult45

We just need a few of our pilot mud members to 'transport' the item that will be relayed to the over seas areas

Or...

Mail it

Hopefully it's a horn button, not an F135

 

[JohnnyC]

This all does remind me of a small can ham that was going from friends truck to friends truck ... Hiding it on each others trucks... Went on for several years ... It went all over several cruisers ... Inside and outside the truck


Then one year we went for an excursion ... All day wheeling trip... friend and his brother got lost in the upper northeast kingdom of Vermont with his cruiser ... The temperature dipped into the 40's overnight ... Didn't find them till the next day... They ate the ham

I don't want to use a ham... But... This will be just as memorable for those who participate

 

[jocww]

Im in San Ramon, right next to Danville. If im up and running I would be glad to tag along for a few miles.

 

[ginmtb]

Im in San Ramon, right next to Danville. If im up and running I would be glad to tag along for a few miles.

Yessiree caracruiser action! (vs caravan)

 

[RolandFJ40]

I'm game in central dirty Jerz. Although Brian has my area covered. Just did a few hundred to Rehoboth Beach Del and back.

Stockton NJ

 

[vt0u812]

I'm In!! (I'm in central Vermont!) JohnnyC, Maybe I can join you for a couple hundred miles?

 

[dad4x4]

When the itinerary for around GA gets set, ring me up. I'll try to schedule a FJ40 Dinner that weekend to get as many 40's logged as possible on this endeavor....

Absolutely, I've wanted to do this for years. Let me know, hopefully my '77 will be ready