Practicing for the Baja 500 in my 1975 FJ40 circa 1978.
Media FJ40 Pics from "Back in the day" (70's, 80's)
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Here's a nice photo (from Gregg Hillmar's webpages) of a typical Southern Nevada Land Cruisers run in the late '80s. I believe this was taken after we moved from Las Vegas in March 1986. We hadn't bought our first FJ40 yet, but were (I believe) one of the first FJ60 owners in the club with our new '84 FJ60, which we still own.
Had this picture pop up on my Facebook feed one day. Thought I recognized the spot as somewhere I had taken my 40. Got to talking to the guy who had posted it and it turns out it was the spot I thought and was also MY 40, 15 years or so before I bought it.
Exploring Iowa side of Missouri river near Council Bluffs with my brother circa 1978.
Not a photo of my FJ40 but hopefully forum members will cut me some slack on this illustration I drew back in the day circa 1980.
@4Cruisers excellent pic, thanks for posting. Back in the day I was drooling over them and like @RAGINGMATT I had the dirt bike but not the sweet 40. I work on two of them now, my ‘78 and my brothers ‘76. So cool looking back!
So i was tellin my mom about this thread and how i had posted some pics awhile back and she said that she had some pics of her racing a FJ40 back in the day. i was kinda shocked. how did i not already know this. when i was a little squirt my dad raced a J
p. i knew that, and vaguely remember it. manly the eagle on the hood, and the day he sold it cause we had to walk back from where he parked it with the for sale sign. he had boxes of trophies i remember in storage. when i was a kid i remember looking at them. So mom tells me how the were at a race and her friend had a land cruiser and they teamed up boys against girls for this race, my dad and the friends husband in dads Jp and my mom and her friend in the Land cruiser so here are a few pics of my mommy at the 1982 4x4 jamboree in chloride AZ
Heres a pic of my dads Rig
Heres a pic of me and my dad the same day im doing some kind of kids game
p. i knew that, and vaguely remember it. manly the eagle on the hood, and the day he sold it cause we had to walk back from where he parked it with the for sale sign. he had boxes of trophies i remember in storage. when i was a kid i remember looking at them. So mom tells me how the were at a race and her friend had a land cruiser and they teamed up boys against girls for this race, my dad and the friends husband in dads Jp and my mom and her friend in the Land cruiser so here are a few pics of my mommy at the 1982 4x4 jamboree in chloride AZHeres a pic of my dads Rig
Heres a pic of me and my dad the same day im doing some kind of kids game
I won a Ribbon!
Well I hit one of those mile stones today I turned 60! Thirty nine years of owning over a hundred Toyota trucks and counting! Twenty five years old with my first one and yesterday with my fj ! The picture was taken in the same spot! I am truly blessed!!!!
The day I turned 60 I told a friend 15 years my senor. He looked at be for a second and said "I have underwear older than that".
You wearing the same overall's?
Not the same overall’s ! But I still have that coat! I was going to wear it to but it’s in a box somewhere?
...would change the automobile brand, Sir
seems Toyota last not long.
switch to a
A must to visit.
Cité de l'Automobile
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Awesome pictures.....I absolutely love the before and after pictures.
I can't imagine how nice it would be to go back for a short time to the days when life was just much less complicated. This is a wonderful thread, please keep sharing as it is the only way to relive these great memories.
Love those grill girls!
Ooof, LOL
There sure are alot of different striping designs pictured here.
Was there a specific set of Toyota desinged stripes styles for these old 40’s or did each dealer farm out the striping work to local paint shops who designed their own?
Was there a specific set of Toyota desinged stripes styles for these old 40’s or did each dealer farm out the striping work to local paint shops who designed their own?