hey everyone, this is my cruiser build/story
It all started when my dad came home one day and dragged me down the street for a reason he would not say. we walk up to this guys garage where under boxes and boxes of stuff, was a truck. "Its a Land Cruiser" my dad said. He had one many years ago. I am 16 years old at this point, with no drivers license. So we decided it would be a father son project. we had to push it up the road to where my house was. It came in many pieces and boxes... lets just say my mom was NOT happy, and i had NO idea what i was in for. i was in automotive class in high school, and figured i could do a bunch of work in class.(that bead blaster came in handy)
i am currently 22 and drive it everyday. it took me about 5 years to get it on the road. your prob thinking holy crap, it took you 5 years and thats all you have? well yes lol. i got it without knowing hardly anything about cars and such. also ran into some things in my life that prevented me from going further. i didnt even realize how much time and money went into these things. well anyway i was in high school/college and i spent a lot of time with other things. girls drugs booze video games blah blah blah...
anyway lets get to the pics!!! i didnt take to many pics untill i found this site a couple of years ago. here is what i started with.
1st pic just washing it down. 2nd pic fire wall painted. 3rd pic with bed liner in
It all started when my dad came home one day and dragged me down the street for a reason he would not say. we walk up to this guys garage where under boxes and boxes of stuff, was a truck. "Its a Land Cruiser" my dad said. He had one many years ago. I am 16 years old at this point, with no drivers license. So we decided it would be a father son project. we had to push it up the road to where my house was. It came in many pieces and boxes... lets just say my mom was NOT happy, and i had NO idea what i was in for. i was in automotive class in high school, and figured i could do a bunch of work in class.(that bead blaster came in handy)
i am currently 22 and drive it everyday. it took me about 5 years to get it on the road. your prob thinking holy crap, it took you 5 years and thats all you have? well yes lol. i got it without knowing hardly anything about cars and such. also ran into some things in my life that prevented me from going further. i didnt even realize how much time and money went into these things. well anyway i was in high school/college and i spent a lot of time with other things. girls drugs booze video games blah blah blah...
anyway lets get to the pics!!! i didnt take to many pics untill i found this site a couple of years ago. here is what i started with.
1st pic just washing it down. 2nd pic fire wall painted. 3rd pic with bed liner in
so i had to cancel the trip and my friends were bummed. my mom said there was no way i was going to rebuild the motor in her garage again. so i moved down to socal with my dad where he had an empty barn on his work property. BINGO. so i trailerd my truck down there along with my stuff. ended up going to shool down there for a semester and worked on my truck when i wasnt at school. this time i took a lot more pics and had some other ideas in store as well.
