What's up 80 crew!
Added a 1995 last week and I'm starting to make notes on how I'm going to build this one out. If you follow Mike @Cruiser Corps you may have seen his walk around video on IG last week. I am the lucky buyer of this 2 owner Moonglow Pearl with 185k miles... in Mike's own words this is the cleanest and nicest 80 he's owned, which took some bribing to sell it to me.
The original owner had it for nearly 18 years and then his business partner bought it and drove it the last 7 years. Both of them serviced it at Toyota religiously every 3k miles and always kept up with anything that needed to be fixed or updated, even if it wasn't neccessary. The receipt folder is ridiculously thick!
Now I spend most of my time in the 200 section and planning LCDC (www.landcruiserdc.com) which primarily is a 200 series event held in various locations in CO but the last couple of years we've opened it up to other series'... But guess what I think there's going to be some 80's this year! Anyways really looking forward to having some fun with the 80 and getting it out on the trails.
The truck is completely stock other than Mike putting on an OME suspension and KO2 tires for me.
Some basic necessities on order so far; BH3D cup holders, CDL switch mod, LED interior bulbs, hood struts and an oem bug deflector to match the existing oem sunroof deflector.
Here is my list on next steps... let me know your suggestions/thoughts:
- ARB front bumper with 9.5 ComeUp winch synthetic line
- 9" round LED lights mounted to bumper... haven't decided which ones yet
- Slee or White Knuckle sliders (have WK on my 200 and love them)
- ARB drawers
- Rear bumper... haven't decided which one yet... like Slee, Delta and BumpIt Off Road... thoughts?
- LED cargo strip lighting
- ARB dual compressor
- New headlight bulbs... haven't decided on direction here... been searching threads for more info.
- New double din stereo with Apple CarPlay! My 200 doesn't have it but my 80 sure will!!
- New speakers all around
- It has front gray weather tech mats and Husky 2nd row but haven't decided if I should switch them
- ARB rear locker or look for some OEM F/R lockers... research tells me to go with ARB
- Roof rack... haven't decided which one but most likely FrontRunner or just use my extra Thule system which I can use for the awning, roof box, ski's, etc.
What am I missing???
Here are some photos from Mike upon pick up which was fully detailed and shipped by @Riverrunner and then showing up in it's natural habitat... filthy...
Added a 1995 last week and I'm starting to make notes on how I'm going to build this one out. If you follow Mike @Cruiser Corps you may have seen his walk around video on IG last week. I am the lucky buyer of this 2 owner Moonglow Pearl with 185k miles... in Mike's own words this is the cleanest and nicest 80 he's owned, which took some bribing to sell it to me.
The original owner had it for nearly 18 years and then his business partner bought it and drove it the last 7 years. Both of them serviced it at Toyota religiously every 3k miles and always kept up with anything that needed to be fixed or updated, even if it wasn't neccessary. The receipt folder is ridiculously thick!
Now I spend most of my time in the 200 section and planning LCDC (www.landcruiserdc.com) which primarily is a 200 series event held in various locations in CO but the last couple of years we've opened it up to other series'... But guess what I think there's going to be some 80's this year! Anyways really looking forward to having some fun with the 80 and getting it out on the trails.
The truck is completely stock other than Mike putting on an OME suspension and KO2 tires for me.
Some basic necessities on order so far; BH3D cup holders, CDL switch mod, LED interior bulbs, hood struts and an oem bug deflector to match the existing oem sunroof deflector.
Here is my list on next steps... let me know your suggestions/thoughts:
- ARB front bumper with 9.5 ComeUp winch synthetic line
- 9" round LED lights mounted to bumper... haven't decided which ones yet
- Slee or White Knuckle sliders (have WK on my 200 and love them)
- ARB drawers
- Rear bumper... haven't decided which one yet... like Slee, Delta and BumpIt Off Road... thoughts?
- LED cargo strip lighting
- ARB dual compressor
- New headlight bulbs... haven't decided on direction here... been searching threads for more info.
- New double din stereo with Apple CarPlay! My 200 doesn't have it but my 80 sure will!!
- New speakers all around
- It has front gray weather tech mats and Husky 2nd row but haven't decided if I should switch them
- ARB rear locker or look for some OEM F/R lockers... research tells me to go with ARB
- Roof rack... haven't decided which one but most likely FrontRunner or just use my extra Thule system which I can use for the awning, roof box, ski's, etc.
What am I missing???
Here are some photos from Mike upon pick up which was fully detailed and shipped by @Riverrunner and then showing up in it's natural habitat... filthy...