So I was thinking about this truck a bit lately. I sold it to a guy in Arizona and it went to Shannon Campbell to finish off. I expect it is done by now.
This was one of the trucks I built that I enjoyed building more than any other and I was truly stoked on how it was turning out.
Last year I was coming to a dead end in my life. I was on a dead end road for housing, where I lived and the house I had lived in for 14yrs was being sold. Any day I was going to get a 60-day notice and I sure didn't want to deal with that in the middle of winter. I lived in Jackson, Wyoming for 21yrs and that town for the last decade has been dealing with a housing crisis as well as an employee problem, these probs are related. I owned a landscape business there for 18yrs and finding good help began to be impossible. Billionaires and millionaires pushed us regular folks out and are still doing that. I know many people that left there in the last decade or so. Any ways, I sold off all my stuff and my life and I hit the road in my 2000 Land Cruiser. Four months later I find myself here in Panama sitting next to the ocean after driving down here in that 100-series. Not my first time doing this, my third time driving down here actually. The last four months has been and was meant to be a journey to find myself again, a new place and a new path in life.
Well, I tried to rewrite the book and have explored many options. I have come to realize sitting here by the sea, I love trucks, I really love Land Cruisers! I don't suck to bad at building them and I do enjoy working on them. There is something about building awesome trucks in a shop, tunes playing loud, cutting, wrenching, welding and all that I really enjoy. And so I have found my path, it is Land Cruisers, working on them, building them and selling them. I don't know when but in the future I will build another FJ142 and this time I will finish it because I won't be on the verge of losing my shop!
Not sure why I picked this thread to post this. Probably because out of all the trucks I have built this one was my favorite!
Cheers
