Head Rests 71950-90352 (1 Viewer)

[greentruck]

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I have two brand new head rests, Toyota 71950-90352. Ordered originally for my long departed 1976 FJ55 and just found stashed away. Long gone from Toyota parts stock, I found several prices starting at $150/each/used and up from the usual suspects.

Per TrollHole's past post, these fit:
09/75 -01/79 work on any 55, 40, 43, and BJ40 0r 42 of these years. 71950-90352 Lucky guys and gals
https://forum.ih8mud.com/fj55-iron-pig-preservation-society/188531-fj55-head-rests.html

I'm offering them here first, because I'm loyal to the Pig to the end.

Location: Central Illinois
Price: $150, plus ACTUAL COST Shipping to your location, for the pair of headrests, plus 4 of the bezel/retainer that fits the hole where it goes into the top of the seat, 71998-22030-01 included at no additional charge.
Contact: via MUD PM

 

[greentruck]

Obligatory Proof of Life Pic

 

[scrapdaddy]

Man, those are nice. I'm going with buckets, but anybody that's useing the bench, should jump on these.

Thanks for offering these to the group. Somebody will realize the value in them.

 

[PabloCruise]

Interested, do these have the cool engraving/design on the back?

 

[greentruck]

PabloCruise,
These are just bald on the back, pretty much like the front side pic.

Thanks for your interest and to scrapdaddy for the kind comment. I was a little shocked on the prices they're asking for used when I was doing research, but I guess it's the one good investment I made in my life. I didn't want to ask too much, just really wish I had another sweet 55 to put 'em on, but that's life and not likely to happen. Besides, it'd just melt in the Midwest again if I drove it with even one snowflake around.

As you can see by my avatar, I value my FJ55 heritage
Pic was taken in Animas Forks in 1977 when all the world was young...

And if you need them, it'll be good for your neck if worse comes to worse, which is why I bought them originally, because some dude totalled his AMC out on the back bumper of my Pig -- and I didn't have the head rests and wished I did before it was all over. Don't know why I never got around to installing them. The truck's been gone almost 30 years, so it's a fine wine in this bottle. I'm still stuck with the bad neck.

Drop me a line if interested.

 

[PabloCruise]

Wow, quite the story... Sorry to hear about your neck injury - no bueno.
BTW, I have always liked your avatar picture. You haven't the Pig for 30 years? Sounds like you miss her. Did the AMC total your Pig? Love to see more pics of her.
I need to dig up a picture of the headrests from my '74, they had this crazy design tooled into the vinyl.
Now that I re-read your original post, I see you saying these will work on 9/75 and up? Might not fit my '74 (w/ 9/73 build date).

Hmm...

 

[PabloCruise]

Was the Pig new in your avatar pic? I'm guessing it was a fun trip!

 

[PabloCruise]

Okay, I found the image of my funky headrests:

From here: https://forum.ih8mud.com/fj55-classifieds-corner/546196-head-rests-1979-fj55.html In the thread, another guy says he has the same design on headrests from a '72.

In the thread you linked to previously, Marshall references a "hippy design" headrest for early '75:

Still to this day it boggles my mind as to why so many of the headrest were thown away.


Anyway I went through the EPC and narrowed down correct headrest and what will crossrefence from other vehicles.

10/69- 01/75 had only one style. 71950-39026-03 I belive they are narrow post but it would be nice to have a pic.

01/75- 09/75 71950-90351 These are the guys that got screwed like me. 10.5 inch wide post with hippy graphics on them. During this 9 month time you could have also gotten 71950-39026-03 Which is the early headrest. SO crap good luck with that. Toyota just put on whatever they had in at that time.

Now is where it gets interesting.

09/75 -01/79 work on any 55, 40, 43, and BJ40 0r 42 of these years. 71950-90352 Lucky guys and gals

01/79-07/80 71959-90353 is the last of the years for 55's I'm betting they were grey.

So It would be cool to see some early headrest. Especially a 69.and a early 75 and compare.

I realize you just want to sell these, and I am getting off on minutia... Just not sure if these will fit my '74?

I can measure my post spacing when I get home and see if yours match.

 

[greentruck]

PabloCruise,
That's an interesting pic. Wonder where they sourced those from?

I'm almost certain they wouldn't fit your truck. The posts are just less than 5" on-center on these. And I gotta admit they're sold

Which is great, but worth recalling the rest of the tale now that you're helping bring back memories.

I may have some more pics of the "Green Dragon" but not sure where right now. I'll post up in the Pig forum if I find them. Yes, she was pretty new on that trip, stock except for the bumper stickers and my cassette deck. Pic was taken by a college buddy, we'd both managed to drop out the year before. Somehow I came up with a job and bought her, then invited Dave for the first big trip. We were roughing it, all we had was a tent fly, but we managed a trip from Denver to Animas Forks in the course of a week over mostly 4x4 trails with only one night too wet forcing us to spend some of our tiny fundage on a motel room.

We went Engineer coming in from Lake City, so he was on the outside, with the "good view." It wasn't until I got to drive it the opposite direction a couple of years later that I realized why he'd seemed so nervous again after enduring my driving for a week already. But at least I got that great shot for an avatar before we turned back toward Midwest reality via Cinnamon Pass. Crossing back, we came across one of those Basque sheepherders and his flock, an awesome sight above treeline. I think the wilderness ended that, but probably not a good idea to be grazing up there anyway. Lose too many sheep to lightning!

The accident really didn't hurt the Pig much. Mostly bent the bumper wings into the lower end of body there, the repairs accelerating the propensity to rust in that area anyway. Did bend my seat a bit, too, but the long-term issue was the neck. Such is life.

 

[scrapdaddy]

Mike,

Great story, when you have time, it would be alot of fun to see some more pictures and to hear about your adventures.

 

[PabloCruise]

x2, I'd love to see more pics of the Green Dragon, and hear more about the adventures!

Glad you got the headrests sold!

 

[greentruck]

Be glad to accommodate, as exercising the memory helps keep it alive...

It was a long hot drive through Kansas on the way. The truck had A/C, but struggled to keep cool in the 100 degree heat. We crossed into Colorado, which got Dave farther than the last time he tried it. Apparently he'd headed West some months earlier with his GF at the time and some friends. He was driving and it was night. He nodded off and rolled it right at the KS-CO border. He did make it into Colorado -- by ambulance, as the nearest hospital was in Burlington. End of that attempt. So even before we hit the mountains, his ride this time gave him a certain confidence in the trip lacking the first time around.

So he's telling me this story, the first I'd heard about it. We roll on west on I-70. Eventually we passed the place with the tower (First View?) and I point out the mountains to the west on the horizon. Now, the biggest hills Dave had ever seen were in Appalachia. Unlike mil-brat me, who'd escaped the Sargasso Sea of southern Indiana, Dave was somewhat less well traveled. He insisted what we were seeing was "just clouds." OK, keep an eye on them, Dave. Eventually he conceded I was right.

We got through Denver and uphill on I-70 beyond. Got to Idaho Springs, was dark and we were hungry and it was threatening rain. We ate in a restaurant on the north side of the highway at the east entrance to IS. Then we headed for a camping spot, just poking around roads leading south, which isn't much. Got up one spot, then slipped and put a crease in the GD's exhaust backing out. Dang. Note how Green Dragon shortens to GD, quite handily for when it was irritating me. I'd already creased the rocker panel back home, so at least it wasn't the first ding On top of that, I was coming down with my only case ever of altitude sickness. For some reason it dogged me the next few days, then I was good and never had a problem since.

Or maybe it was the porkchop at the restaurant?

The rain was getting heavy and it was clear we weren't going to use the fly that night. Since we didn't have a whole lot of gear, at least there was room to sack out with the back seat folded down. The morning came, we ate something, then headed up Mt. Evans. After coming down, we headed to the Colorado RR Museum in Golden. Then it was off into the mountains for our next episode.

 

[greentruck]

One thing to keep in mind about Mike and Dave's great adventure was the general lack of information about trails and their conditions, let alone location, in the per-Internet-wireless-connected world of the 1970s. Obviously, we had the ol' Rand-McNally US Road Atlas. I actually had that atlas until a few years ago, it may still be around -- but it was generally not much help once you left the paved roads. Colorado was still paving a few of its backcountry highways (may still be a few to go even toady). The best thing the Rand-McAtlas could do was point you toward blank spots on the map, which suggested adventure lay ahead.

You could get USGS maps, of course, but the scale made them voluminous given the territory we covered and the cost of each map. One thing we did discover were the maps for the national Forests. They were hard to find, I suppose because it was late August when we got there and the season's batch of maps were already picked over by others We grabbed them when we could find them and had a fairly complete set by the end of the trip.

Our primary guide to begin with was Robert L. Brown's "Jeep Trails to Colorado Ghost Towns.' Originally published in 1963, mine is a copy of the ninth edition of 1976. The issue it had was a general lack of maps, as it relied instead on written description of the routes and hadn't been updated AFAIK since the first edition. The pictures were nice, but even in the decade and a half since first released, it was obvious time and weather were catching up with many of the structures pictured in it.

Our second day was occupied with the drive up Mount Evans and a visit to the CRRM. The railroad museum helped fix some of our targets with its displays of various locations and artifacts of the old mountain railroads, mostly narrowgauge in the early days. We headed out from there in late afternoon and set our sights on a place called Waldorf. Well the directions were somewhat mysterious. I'm not sure we ever found Waldorf.

We did come across the picked-over carcass of an old Army Weasel, abandoned years before, whether by the Army or a surplus buyer was unclear. The Army had pack trails running out of Ft. Carson and up into the mountains at least as far as Camp Hale. I learned a bit more about this over the years and used to actually work with a fellow who worked the trails when he was in the Army in the late 1950s.

Driving on in moderate confusion according to the directions, we came across an old mine site with a falling in cabin. Near as we could tell, it was called the Wild Irishman, but since we were a little lost there on the slopes of Mount McClellan. who knows? I think the trail went over the top from there and on towards Red Cone, but we weren't sure then and I've never been back.

We camped under the fly with more cooperative weather. After breakfast the next morning, we headed back to the main road and started working our way toward Holy Cross City. Brown indicated that HCC was only a hour-and-a-half drive up, but I think the trail had already started deteriorating by then, although it was nowhere near the way it's been recently. The FJ55 was rolling on her stock 28" M&S tires, as this was even before the very first BFG Radial All-Terrains were first released. It was just about the Stone Age of 4x4ing. We turned around at the creek crossing, having met our match. Getting back to the gravel road at the start of the trail, we camped for the evening again in fine weather.

 

[nuclearlemon]

looking for waldorf ended up in sts. john...you were quite a ways off waldorf is part of argentine, which is one of rising suns adopt a trails. much of the mine is still there and looking good as of a few years ago (last time i was up there). yes, wild irishman is on the way to red cone...these days, you can't do redcone from that direction tho. you would have to run webster pass to the other side of red cone as it's one way for the shale hills.

 

[PabloCruise]

Great stories of the Adventures of the Green Dragon!

 

[greentruck]

Thanks for the comments folks.

Ige,
I'm sure you're right that we were closer to Argentine than to the Wild Irishman. I looked at it again and am pretty sure we didn't leave Clear Creek County any way, except via I-70, then up Loveland Pass.

That actually helps me some with these next two days, as it's kinda hazy after almost 4 decades. Coming down off Loveland we headed towards Leadville. Along the way we picked up a guy hitchhiking who worked as a river guide at State Bridge IIRC. He filled us in on some things we had questions about. It was lunch time when we got to Leadville, so we ate at a restaurant he recommended that was owned by a friend. Very cool vibe to Leadville, then, really the whole trip in Colorado, but it was the 70s, what can I say

Kinda wished I'd invested in real estate:whoops:

After parting ways with our temporary fellow traveler, we drove south from Leadville, picking up the turnoff to Weston Pass and headed east. Very beautiful, if not too challenging. I'm pretty sure we camped that night at a FS camp site I've used many times before on the east side of Weston Pass.

The next morning, we headed north to Fairplay, checking things out along the way, which isn't much if you've been through. South Park has always fascinated me on maps, but this was my first visit. Then we headed up Mosquito Pass, our first serious wheelin' of the trip and a great view.

After arriving back in Leadville, we headed north for the fabled -- even then, it was in the 4x4 mags as one of those ultimate trails -- Holy Cross City Trail. We enjoyed it, but 28" tires and open diffs only got you so far, so we turned around at the stream. In general, this trail like most others was probably more driveable than the often are today. Big tires were 32". That's life kids, you missed the golden age of 4x4ing by being born late. Appreciate what you have.:whoops:

We camped at the bottom of the trail as I recall, but again its hazy. We were working hard to have fun, so rarely quit until close to dark, then make a quick meal and hit the sack.

Next up, tracking the old DSP&P Railway and the Alpine Tunnel.

 

[OGBeno]

Damn, I might buy them just for the awesome factory pick tags.

 

[PabloCruise]

Damn, I might buy them just for the awesome factory pick tags.

I thought he had them sold?

 

[Boss Hog]

I thought he had them sold?

They are sold-I bought them! And they're cool as hell...just gottem in the mail. However, I may be willing to trade them for a good DS Fender...

 

[greentruck]

****, I might buy them just for the awesome factory pick tags.

beno,
Just pulled that nasty box out of the recycling and pulled the pick tag off it just for you. It was pretty rough on the outside or I would have sent the parts to Boss Hog in it. PM me your address and I'll mail it to you, free of charge.