why -20 with flares? do they stick out too much without flares?
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I would assume they would. The 8" wheel needs more offset to get the correct backspace. I ended up getting the 16x7 -10 wheels as I'm not running flares.
At the risk of further derailing this thread - and beautiful car @Lo2aY - but here’s an apparently Spanish HZJ73 for sale in Germany - Toyota Land Cruiser HZJ 73 // H-Zulassung // unberührt - https://www.ebay-kleinanzeigen.de/s-anzeige/x/2349260531
Take it from me, thread hijacks are completely normal and have this weird peer pressure effect to make you do/consider things.
Hell after the hijack in my thread , I’m researching converting mine to 24v
Ok maybe not. Do you have a rare cruiser??
Yeah I’d say so, and it’s pretty sweet and clean as all get out. Worth a lot of money to the right folks on BAT, but….
Is this a dream cruiser for you?
Would you rather have a different cruiser?
Do you need the money from selling it to pay for house? Kids college? Startup funding for cruisers only social dating app? Debts to the mob?
All seriousness, life is short. If you enjoy it and don’t have to sell it, don’t. I don’t think it’s rare enough to put it in a museum. I mean the 70 series can have something like 3000 variants!!!!
keep it and use it if it makes you happy, but In the end it’s just a used Toyota…
Edit: it appears I may be having an existential crisis. Buy every cruiser you can. Hoard them. Please start stashing all 70 series parts and put them in containers to ship to the US.
Ps: I really need a cheap altimeter POD.
PPs: and a double cab takeoff cab/bed
That is a nice one , Tenerife is one of the Spanish Islands where people could special order these . These islands are a lot closer to Africa then to Spain so you find a lot of things there that where not available in the mainland .
Hello,
GCC and Japan mostly. A few for Europe.
FZJ74s went mainly to the GCC.
You have a very rare 70 Series.
Juan
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Take it from me, thread hijacks are completely normal and have this weird peer pressure effect to make you do/consider things.
Hell after the hijack in my thread , I’m researching converting mine to 24v
Ok maybe not. Do you have a rare cruiser??
Yeah I’d say so, and it’s pretty sweet and clean as all get out. Worth a lot of money to the right folks on BAT, but….
Is this a dream cruiser for you?
Would you rather have a different cruiser?
Do you need the money from selling it to pay for house? Kids college? Startup funding for cruisers only social dating app? Debts to the mob?
All seriousness, life is short. If you enjoy it and don’t have to sell it, don’t. I don’t think it’s rare enough to put it in a museum. I mean the 70 series can have something like 3000 variants!!!!
keep it and use it if it makes you happy, but In the end it’s just a used Toyota…
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Edit: it appears I may be having an existential crisis. Buy every cruiser you can. Hoard them. Please start stashing all 70 series parts and put them in containers to ship to the US.
Ps: I really need a cheap altimeter POD.
PPs: and a double cab takeoff cab/bed
Haha! Been around forums long enough to realize this. lol.
I'm probably going to keep it. Dave is helping me source the softop parts for it. So It's going to be a dual top rig. Going to start fabbing the front bumper for it soon. The ARB I took from my troopy.
I can source the AUX fuel pod out of an early 79. But you need to source the altimeter from a scrapyard or part-out from Japan.
The pods and the dash pads will likely be baked and cracked from heat but i'm sure it could be repaired.
Thank you Juan. I feel so much better driving it now. lol
Colombia got a ton of the 73/74’s. All they way to the end of production. I have looked at them there and thought about importing once 2000+ can be imported.
Cheers
Cheers
This is my dream truck LHD, COP 1FZ-FE, AC
5 speed, manual shift transfer case /locking hubs. MWB, removable roof. And of course coils in the front.
Just SWEET unbelievably cool truck.
5 speed, manual shift transfer case /locking hubs. MWB, removable roof. And of course coils in the front.
Just SWEET unbelievably cool truck.
I concur with Juan: a few (diesels) have been imported into Europe: Test driven a brand new red HZJ74 at a Toyota dealership in Hannover, Germany. This was back in 2001...
PS. The dealer got (almost) the whole 70-Series of that era: some 10 Troopies HZJ78s, Pickups 79s and HZJ74s, were for sale at his yard, something rare for a dealership in Germany.
After 2001, due to emissions considerations, the 70-Series could not be brought through the official Toyota network anymore. The afficionados could look only at specialised importers, who would care for the emissions compatibility of these vehicles to european norms at a (significant) extra cost. Nowadays, I6 and V8 diesels are banned and one can get gazoline/petrol powered vehicles only (GRJ78s, 79s etc), still better than in the US, I think...
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