Hey everybody, i've been lurking around this forum for a few weeks now in anticipation of getting my first Cruiser. I brought it home a few days ago so i thought it would be a good time to sign up and ask a few questions.
So, here it is! It's a BIT rusty, but the price was right
I'm not really sure what i'm going to do with it yet, i think the first step is to get that body off and see how the frame is.
Anyway, here's the story, as far as i know. So my grandpa lives on this island between Vancouver Island and the mainland. The guy that lives across the bay from him bought this cruiser, i don't know if he was the original owner or not, I haven't had a chance to talk to him about it yet. He used it for a while as a daily driver i guess, but it eventually ended up on this island, where there are no public roads or anything, and he sort of stopped using it. He then sold it to an elderly couple who lived across the bay and they used it for a while to haul groceries and stuff from the wharf up to the house. Anyway, my grandpa ended up buying their house, and inherited the cruiser, among other things. Now my grandpa's a retired logger, one of those guys who firmly believes that anything not made by General Motors isn't worth owning. So in traditional logger fashion he parks the cruiser in the bush and promptly forgets about it.
So it sat in the bushes for about 10 years with trees growing through it, until last year my grandpa decides to fix it. So we pour some fresh gas in it, put in a battery and start'r up.
It ran fine, but the rear diff was seized so we picked the back end up with the backhoe. I steered the cruiser and he pushed it down the hill. (this is where the broken rear window came in
)
Any way, he fixed it up so it worked, put it back in the bush, and forgot about it again. Then in April he sold his house, and started packing stuff up. He was planning to leave the cruiser behind, but by then i had a few friends who were into wheeling, and i sort of knew about land cruisers (they're like jeeps but better) SO...we piled a bunch of old boat engines and stuff on it, put it on a barge, and sent it home!
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t205/asdfg45l/IMG_2469Large.jpg
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t205/asdfg45l/IMG_2471Large.jpg
Sam
So, here it is! It's a BIT rusty, but the price was right
I'm not really sure what i'm going to do with it yet, i think the first step is to get that body off and see how the frame is. Anyway, here's the story, as far as i know. So my grandpa lives on this island between Vancouver Island and the mainland. The guy that lives across the bay from him bought this cruiser, i don't know if he was the original owner or not, I haven't had a chance to talk to him about it yet. He used it for a while as a daily driver i guess, but it eventually ended up on this island, where there are no public roads or anything, and he sort of stopped using it. He then sold it to an elderly couple who lived across the bay and they used it for a while to haul groceries and stuff from the wharf up to the house. Anyway, my grandpa ended up buying their house, and inherited the cruiser, among other things. Now my grandpa's a retired logger, one of those guys who firmly believes that anything not made by General Motors isn't worth owning. So in traditional logger fashion he parks the cruiser in the bush and promptly forgets about it.
So it sat in the bushes for about 10 years with trees growing through it, until last year my grandpa decides to fix it. So we pour some fresh gas in it, put in a battery and start'r up.
It ran fine, but the rear diff was seized so we picked the back end up with the backhoe. I steered the cruiser and he pushed it down the hill. (this is where the broken rear window came in
)Any way, he fixed it up so it worked, put it back in the bush, and forgot about it again. Then in April he sold his house, and started packing stuff up. He was planning to leave the cruiser behind, but by then i had a few friends who were into wheeling, and i sort of knew about land cruisers (they're like jeeps but better) SO...we piled a bunch of old boat engines and stuff on it, put it on a barge, and sent it home!
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t205/asdfg45l/IMG_2469Large.jpg
http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t205/asdfg45l/IMG_2471Large.jpg
Sam
Those white stripes have got to be original, how cool are those?!?! 
