Media FJ40 Pics from "Back in the day" (70's, 80's) (3 Viewers)

[fjc-man]

C’mon, it’s not convincing enough? The photo feels kinda 70’s vibe’y doesn’t it?

Well, black and white is retro but that ain’t no Delorean and you’re definitely 21st century.

 

[77CJ5]

 

[77CJ5]

 

[Living in the Past]

View attachment 3880775

Think I've seen this on a Toyota ad from the early 1960s. This is a 61.

I have seen a early sales brochure with this door opening photo cropped to the later style doors

 

[77CJ5]

 

[65swb45]

1991 TLCA Thanksgiving run in Panamint Valley... @65swb45 I am sure you remember this one...

View attachment 3813654View attachment 3813656View attachment 3813657View attachment 3813658View attachment 3813659

Just got back from backpacking the canyon again. Being up there jogged a couple more memories. @Otis

1. I remembered how the temperature dropped so quickly that day that the ambient moisture in the air suddenly froze, and we had flakes of snow decending out of a clear blue sky…at 2pm!
2. I remember that Paul Enos/Elvira tipped over his flatbed mini truck at the top of the last falls. As we gathered up his belongings I noted that the case of beer he had been carrying on deck was colder than the beer that was in his ice chest!
3. I remember it was too cold to sleep (19*) and Marlin’s wife Chris spent a good part of the night making us hot chocolate.
4. I remember that Marlin graciously agreed to act as winch point and deadman for everyone descending the last of the falls. One of the 40s took an exceptionally long time driving off the falls ( I think there were photo opps involved) As the weight of the dangling 40 kept pulling harder and harder on Marlin’s suspension, suddenly the canyon walls shook with an explosion. The extreme compression caused one of Marlin’s tires to pop off the bead!
5. 11 vehicles started on the run, but only 10 made it to town. Tim Schilling drove his sprung-over 40 from Palos Verdes, and proceeded to buckle his S bend steering relay rod on the first falls going up. Marlin straightened it and welded on a gusset, but as a group we had already expressed concern about the fact that Tim was the only one who was running a factory PTO, which we weren’t sure would be safe enough, considering the vertical challenge. With much angst all around, we convinced Tim to turn back.

 

[65swb45]

View attachment 3881842

Any info on this pic? The guy standing by the door looks like Joe Coogan, one of the editors of Hunting magazine back in the day. Joe had a stateside 40 series that I did some work on.

 

[joestewart]

At the Sea Galley Restaurant, 4101 Credit Union Drive, Anchorage, Alaska. August, 1983

 

[77CJ5]

 

[Bear]

No wonder they got a flat tire !! By the way, they're out making a delivery to my place and that's my FedEx package on the lower left.....wayyyyyy down at the bottom. No problem, just heave it over the fence.

 

[beran earms]

View attachment 3877418View attachment 3877419View attachment 3877420

I'm almost certain these pics are in Massachusetts
BLIZZARD OF 78

 

[rmckay1021]

View attachment 3831580
Dusy/ Ershim Trail, 1986, sporting my 31”, $35 Desert Dog retread tires. Living the dream.

@65swb45, do you happen to recall who made the roll bar shown on your truck? I believe mine is still sporting the same one!

 

[65swb45]

@65swb45, do you happen to recall who made the roll bar shown on your truck? I believe mine is still sporting the same one!

The rollbar was in the truck when I bought it, so I cant be sure. But the design is the same as the Smittybilt WC80.

Smittybilt made two Windshield Cage kits for the FJ40, the WC80 and the WC81. The WC81 had the familiar front hoop that went from door to door. The WC80 used two side hoops and a forward spreader bar in order to clear the wiper motors of the pre-75 models.

Hth

 

[77CJ5]

 

[65swb45]

Something tells me that @77CJ5 isnt particularly interested in answering questions.

 

[bobm]

View attachment 3877418View attachment 3877419View attachment 3877420

Top 1 is rte 128 in mass. Was the day after Blizzard of 78. Was looking for that last week.

 

[bobm]

Back in da day.

 

[joestewart]

Here is some cool dudes enjoying their FJ40. Sutter Buttes, 1982. Glory days.

 

[SteveH]

Sorry these aren't from 1979, but they were scanned from a 35mm camera photo.

Spring, 1993, near Alma. I repainted the truck a couple years earlier. The last 2 snow-bashing pix are on the road up to Mt. Bross near Alma. I'm still running the same KYB Gas-adjust shocks today that you can see in the front fender, in the 3rd photo. Not sure they will ever fail...

 

[Greek Cruiserhead]

Cool Cruiser, dude & KYBs!