I guess I should do the formal introduction in this thread...
"My name is Cody, and I have a problem..."
(wait...wrong forum....or IS IT?!?!?)
Anyways, I was in the market for something of SUV cargo room, could pull a small trailer, extra seats for passengers when needed, and looked nice, drove nice, was reliable, etc.
Basically everything someone could want all balled up into 1 vehicle.
I browsed around and found that the Land Cruisers were pretty reliable and quite capable, so after deciding that a 100 series might be too pricey to want to drag across some rocks we began to look at the 95-97 FZJ80s.
Most local vehicles for sale were all 91-92's and since I was going to be occasionally towing, I didn't want the weaker of the available engines.
Found a like new 97 LX450 without lockers, but the color looked great and the truck was quite impressive condition wise. The odometer reads 135k miles, but I've never had a car with over 100k miles run and ride as smooth. The engine bay was immaculate, and not just dealer steam cleaned - no leaks, no dirt and grease everywhere - quite well maintained.
I got the dealer (Ideal Cars in PHX) to swap out a missing center cap from another LX they had, and also they gave me the towing receiver and wiring from the other LX. Now I just gotta work on gathering and installing the mods like 2.5-6" lift, snorkel, cargo rack, ARB bumper w/winch, etc.
Here's a current pic:
See you at one of the meetings or on the trail!
