Well it was almost entirely stock. I painted the engine catapillar yellow. The guy I had bought it from painted zebra stripes on it one night (he was drunk) and managed to only stripe one side. Whitey45 got all of that paint off so it was all white. I know he wanted to keep the plates (whitey45) because he has another 1965 FJ45 but the person that bought it from him never returned the plates. If you have a set of California plates that say "65FJ45" then get ahold of whitey45. I basicallly restored the entire rig including rebuilding the engine and much of the drive train. The only thing it needed was paint and even that was OK. It was a neat rig. The inside was red if I remember correctly so that must have been the original color. it originally belonged to a guy who drove it back and forth to his mine up here in N. California. Some friends of mine bought it from him in the late 80's/early90's then sold to another friend of mine a couple years later. Not even a month after his purchase he spun a rod brg. took it completely apart and sold it to me it about a 1000 pieces. I restored it over the next year, drove it for a few months, never took it off road to test it out and sold it (My first son was on the way). A pilot bought it from me, drove it to LA. where he wheeled it for a few years, bought a Hummer and sold the FJ45 to whitey45. Whitey drove it and sold it to build another FJ45. That's where my knowledge of it's history ends. If you have it, i'd love to see a pic.
