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Brenno

Brenno

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After looking at some old advertising for 55's I've noticed that some came with 2 bars on each piece of the cargo glass. I have searched mud for info but haven't come up with anything. Does anyone have info/pics about which 55's got them.
From the looks it seams they were installed if you had cargo that went above the window line to protect the glass.
Thanks,
Brenno
 
Haven't seen them, but I like the look and function of the window bars.
 
I've seen a couple non-us 55s with the ambi doors with them, I think they were there to protect the glass for the rear troop seats. None of ours had that seating configuration, could probably find them on a Aussie eBay?

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Tucker
 
wouldn't a 3 door troopy have been the perfect addition to the pig pen? I'm picturing a pair of fuel tanks fore of the rear wheels, under the bench and a deeper floor well for some leg room and a pair of seats from the rear doors to the back of the front seat, just like the 45 series and the 78? series did.:hhmm:...Dare I? sorry, I guess this is sort of a hijack now:doh:
 
tucker74 said:
I've seen a couple non-us 55s with the ambi doors with them, I think they were there to protect the glass for the rear troop seats. None of ours had that seating configuration, could probably find them on a Aussie eBay?

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those are some nice pieces of-SHU CHO MOUF!
 
LAMBCRUSHER said:
those are some nice pieces of-SHU CHO MOUF!
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I'd cut the whole arse end off mine to replicate.

Where's bobm?

Does it not seem insanely odd that on a vehicle with no power windows, no power locks, no power steering, and no power engine (haha) that they'd go to the effort to put powered rear glass?

Makes no sense to me.
 
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Delancy said:
I'd cut the whole arse end off mine to replicate.

Where's bobm?

Does it not seem insanely odd that on a vehicle with no power windows, no power locks, no power steering, and no power engine (haha) that they'd go to the effort to put powered rear glass?

Makes no sense to me.
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Delancy, if you are doing a RESTO-MOD, you can have all of that.

Thanks Bob.:)
 
bobm said:
Delancy, if you are doing a RESTO-MOD, you can have all of that.

Thanks Bob.:)
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Haha.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Bob, but I'm not real sure what to describe what I'm doing, and concerned with the easy stuff.

I'm not much of a fabricator.

Just perplexing why a roll down window when they had simpler means at the time.
 
the ausses got standard issue barn doors, tailgates were an option and AFAIK only with manual window regulator. I talked to Specter years ago about rear doors, he told me that the whole rear end is different structurally and that a rear chop would be the way to go. heck, at that point, just import the whole rig, be worth a trip down under.
 
Delancy said:
Haha.

Thanks for the vote of confidence, Bob, but I'm not real sure what to describe what I'm doing, and concerned with the easy stuff.

I'm not much of a fabricator.

Just perplexing why a roll down window when they had simpler means at the time.
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like a lift gate, or even split tail-liftgates? like a 40 or a 60? yeah, that would have been nice. good ol 70s:doh:
 
Thanks for all the replies,
I didn't think of non US 55s with rear seats having the bars.
My 78 (Aus) has a manual tailgate and no bars.
I might replicate the bars, I like the look.
Does anyone have pics from the inside.
 
Gumby said:
How do you manually roll down a window that needs the glass down to lower the tailgate? It needs to be power.
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That's what I was wondering and can't find any manual set ups on any continents for Toyota.

Now, I'm not a classic car guy, but there was a domestic Ford station wagon that had a T handle on the rear glass latch. Insert key, T handle pops out, roll down glass.

Thinking with my skill set, I just need to fix the gear and call that done.

LAMBCRUSHER said:
like a lift gate, or even split tail-liftgates? like a 40 or a 60? yeah, that would have been nice. good ol 70s:doh:
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Was thinking 60 or 80ish. Seems a functional approach.

Every series had it's odd nuances and it seems mostly due to Mr, T's rear cargo ventilation, be that the powered 55 or the sliding rear glass on the 80, both out of character, in my opinion, with the balance of the utility approach.

Of course, that later models got all sorts of other electronics to fail, too.
 
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to me, the barn doors are more of a troop carrier type of thing whereas the tailgate works well with the wagon> gives an extra bench when out and about, but the 60/62 series split gates seem to me to be the best function option for the wagon, by also giving a roof... Deans got a custom split gate using a custom lift gate/glass where the window would have rolled up into, with the stock drop gate-sheer brilliance. the window is where T dropped the ball on the pig- that, and not making a stock truck or troop carrier version:rolleyes: guess that's why we got welderz
 
Brenno, why couldn't you just take some flat stock and make a perimeter frame around the inside of the cargo window frame, weld in some horizontal bars maybe with a tiny kick in em where they take off of their main frames to keep em from bouncin off the glass, and simply screw in from the inside? I'm curious to see what T did there from the inside as well...
 
bars weren't necessarily rigs with rear seats, they were required in some countries, although i can't think of which ones now. same ones that required fj60s to have bars on windows and the funky tailgate bar. it was a safety thing, iirc.

manual crank handle was removable on the early models, a crank that fit into a slot by lock, later it was incorporated.

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