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

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More photos taken on the side of Interstate 10. I ended up dismantling the green FJ40 for parts, and hauling the frame and body off to the scrapyard. I made good use of the spare tire carrier, by turning it upside down and mounting it on the left side of my 1966 FJ40 - the "dual spare tire" look. The pictures with the dual spare tires were taken on the return trip to New Orleans (I think I made that drive no less than 4 times in my FJ40). Again, these photos are from 1987 or maybe 1988.

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You needed 2 spare tires back in the day with those maxi-tracs. They were soft.The thing I remember most about those tires was how they developed flat spots after sitting overnight ,especially in winter and felt like you had square tires for a few minutes when you took off in the morning.Great tire though!
 
curtislow said:
You needed 2 spare tires back in the day with those maxi-tracs. They were soft.The thing I remember most about those tires was how they developed flat spots after sitting overnight ,especially in winter and felt like you had square tires for a few minutes when you took off in the morning.Great tire though!
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Flat spots were common on about all the old nylon tires. My Norseman's were like that.
 
Back to the '70s! I did not take this photo, but it was taken with my camera when I inadvertantly left it in the red FJ40 pictured (this is the same red FJ40 as in my previous posts - a 1969 model). Check out the bell bottoms and the hair, and I'm uncertain as to what they are smokin'. I am told that the gentleman to the left is "One Toe Baker" (sounds like a nickname), Jeff Thayer sitting down on the back deck of the FJ40, and the two "Darylls" to the right are unidentified. Photo taken during a break from (or perhaps after, or maybe even before) a vocational class in carpentry, in or around Arroyo High School in San Lorenzo, California. Circa 1978

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Found a couple of more..... The gentleman in the two photos, Riccardo Talevi, was a visiting graduate student or post doctoral fellow (can't quite remember which) from Naples, Italy. He spent at least a few months in the Department of Zoology at UC Davis while I was a grad student. While he was in the US, he wanted to visit Yosemite National Park sooooo bad. It was only a three hour drive, so I took him up there one weekend in the FJ40. Had a great time. I recall that the F135 engine had a tendency to overheat during the drive up there, and I had to pull over a couple of times to allow the motor to cool down. I cannot remember what the issue was, but we made it there and back without getting stranded or towed etc etc. I may stand corrected, but I believe the first photo was taken from the "Tunnel View" lookout while the second, obviously, was taken from the parking lot at Glacier Point. I don't see hoards of people in the backround of the photos, so we must have visited during the "off season" (although the weather on that day looks pretty darn good!). Both photos: 1985

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This was back in 1980 the best I can remember.
We all have used our FJ40s for a lot of events, this was a tractor pull that the Jaycees that I was working with put on.
 
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Thanks for the "likes"!

I was hoping to dig up a few more pics of Moab in the mid 1980s. still looking. Those who were there in the 1970s and 1980s (or earlier) knew what a magical place it was. The characters that lived there awesome too-One of my family members lived there was an old uranium miner that had worked for Charlie Steen and knew Edward Abbey. He had many stories, I'm sure some of them were actually true...A couple other family friends were extras in cheesy western movies filmed there, although they have long passed, still see them in cheesy westerns once in a while. Nowadays, Moab looks like Los Angeles, and is priced similarly...I don't go there anymore.

I also have to give myself props for taking the time to find original FJ40 wheels, hubcaps and tall skinny tires (norseman 31x10.50) to replace those awful white spoke wheels and stupid fat tires that everyone thought were cool. I would say I was ahead of the times-but the mullet I rocked during the 1980s would suggest otherwise.
 
Well I thought I'd might as well contribute.
I have so many photos of my first FJ40 which I bought new from the Toyota dealer back in 1982.

Back in the day when a 31/10.5 was a big tire, and you could drive your LandCruiser almost anywhere. In the days of open back country and few road closures.

Looking at all these old photos really brings back the memories!

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