Hiney, A '72 FST

[HelloKitty65]

I don't require NOS seatbelts, these are period correct and I think they are going to look fine.

 

[charliemeyer007]

Look like the belts/buckles in my 7/72 FST I have since 82.

 

[HelloKitty65]

This is a 5/72 so I'm glad I presumably got it right. I swear I miss more than hit on my guesses.

 

[Living in the Past]

This is the greener pasture. Indoors at last!
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I think there was a house included in the deal, but I wasn't really paying that much attention to it. I tended to only see the shop. Will see soon if retirement allows for actual progress, or not. Fingers crossed.

Need more pictures of the garage. Is the lack of progress do to time? For me retirement is lack space and time. Space is my fault. As it grew I kept filling up. As for time life just keeps getting in the way.

If you plan on running a hard top soft doors will not be a good fit. Soft doors a straight while hard doors after the corrugated tops angle in. Too bad your so far away(Washington state or Oregon?) from Arizona. I have a 72 hard top would have let go for cheap. Not perfect but looks better than the two you picked up.

Look like the belts/buckles in my 7/72 FST I have since 82.

Wasn't sure if the post paddle type were still black. Would have to do some research but picked some I thought were 72. As I remember they were pewter not black.

 

[HelloKitty65]

My once ample barn filled with canoes, kayaks, a '63 Aristocrat trailer, etc. and now only has room for two Land Cruisers. But I'm just babysitting a '65 for @MexicanNewby and I should get that space back 'soon'.

So was there ever a Toyota sloping in soft door ever made for switching back and forth? If not, why not?

This makes me certain my intended hard doors are probably early and do not slope in.

Just for fun I was half starting fabricating unneeded FST bows per @Pighead's instructions and my B pillar donor pieces were later and sloped in. The instructions did accommodate this, and I'm guessing you could only run later matching hard doors. But now I wonder, can you 'unslope' a B pillar while at it anyways? I'm afraid I know the answer, is there slope in the windshield too?

Next question, I know corrugated sides have a different cap, and I have both. Can one use that combination on a '72 tub and use straight doors?
Lemme guess, I'd need to swap out the windshield too? Well as luck would have it, I do have an early windshield too, if necessary.

I'm thinking of the movie quote, "Well THAT escalated quickly."

 

[HelloKitty65]

Big question is do you have glass. The weatherstripping has to match the glass. That was what the change was 7/71. A early corrugated top will fit a 72 tub. Weatherstripping is based on the glass more than the year. Can't say it's a 72 top just because it fit a 72. My 69 has a 73 top with 79 vent windows added. My 79 currently has a 77 top on it. Can't think of any changes to the hard top side mid 65 until the fixed nut for three point seat belts were added in 73.

Well LITP answered this in another thread. In a pinch.

 

[brian]

Put me in the that top was cool camp.
Looked like it had decent craftsmanship to it as well.

 

[MexicanNewby]

My once ample barn filled with canoes, kayaks, a '63 Aristocrat trailer, etc. and now only has room for two Land Cruisers. But I'm just babysitting a '65 for @MexicanNewby and I should get that space back 'soon'.

So was there ever a Toyota sloping in soft door ever made for switching back and forth? If not, why not?

This makes me certain my intended hard doors are probably early and do not slope in.
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Just for fun I was half starting fabricating unneeded FST bows per @Pighead's instructions and my B pillar donor pieces were later and sloped in. The instructions did accommodate this, and I'm guessing you could only run later matching hard doors. But now I wonder, can you 'unslope' a B pillar while at it anyways? I'm afraid I know the answer, is there slope in the windshield too?

Next question, I know corrugated sides have a different cap, and I have both. Can one use that combination on a '72 tub and use straight doors?
Lemme guess, I'd need to swap out the windshield too? Well as luck would have it, I do have an early windshield too, if necessary.

I'm thinking of the movie quote, "Well THAT escalated quickly."

I like to call it "cruisersitting".

 

[HelloKitty65]

I like to call it "cruisersitting".

She's welcome anytime.

 

[timmyisinthewell]

Looks like you did good on those belts. Pic shown of the belt from my 01/72
I bought in '78. Notice the tag with date November 1971. This belt part number was used from 09/71 to 09/72. Cool truck and diggin' that topper. You know the dude that built that stood back looking at and breaming with pride and accomplishment.

 

[HelloKitty65]

So I can make a pretty good guess that the PO was likely an employee at the local Grants Pass "Cave Man Camper" plant, which took it's name from the nearby Oregon Caves National Monument.

The top looks to have the colors and materials I remember from the era, and there still is an RV dealer of the name today. Every festival in every small Oregon town with a parade was visited by the Caveman Camper Cavemen. They 'kidnapped' people into a rolling cage on the parade route (and let them out a few blocks later).

Good Oregon memories.

 

[HelloKitty65]

Been playing with a parts washer and an electrolysis setup to prep parts for paint. The air cleaner turned out nice. Happiness is four intact mounting bolts.