Builds My Troopy "KABOOM" (1 Viewer)

[RUSH55]

Yeah man! Cleaned up nice!

 

[RHINO]

Went for a picnic drive with my bestest buddy

Where's the picnic? Here it is, summer Shandy and egg foo young

 

[JackA]

Glad to see you back. We gotta meet up sometime soon. Would love to checkout your new dope ride.

 

[RHINO]

your new dope ride.

Hah, I'll have to find another one of those emblems

 

[RHINO]

Need to take more pics and update once in a while.

Found a garage

 

[RHINO]

Cot fits perfectly

 

[RHINO]

My dream, I could live here

 

[RHINO]

I like to cook, which suits myself, cause I like to eat.

Sheperds pie

 

[RHINO]

And views for days

 

[RUSH55]

Heck yeah buddy! Looks like some fun times!

 

[RobertoL]

Great looking Troopy... Congratulations!!

 

[Nikofzj80]

After a long time coming, it's finally my turn to join the club.

1988 FJ75 GCC spec from Oman
3F H55 and split case


The rumors of school bus troopies are true, I spent an afternoon scraping and cleaning gum, candy leftovers and children's stickers from inside this car.

I'm in the process of stripping it down and inspecting everything. So far the car looks to be original and minimally molested, and i plan to drive and enjoy it as i continue the repairs and updates.

I had it shipped from L.A. to Phx az. Where I drove it up to my home in Payson az. I debated the long drive across I-10 but glad I opted to ship, turns out all 4 ujoints are shot, maybe it would have made it, maybe not. I have a vibration that gets very pronounced above 120kph, so I kept it under 120 all the way home to 5,000ft elevation.

This thread will be less of a real build and more of an owners story and chronicals of use, care and feeding.

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Love the troopy! And absolutely love the rear fixed windows!

 

[Buckow]

My dream, I could live here

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Wonderful spot!

 

[SNLC]

If it hasn’t settled by now, just pull leaves out of the packs until it sits and rides how you want.

Cost you nothing other than your time.

Cheers

 

[Trakkateer]

I liked the school signage on the doors.

 

[RHINO]

If it hasn’t settled by now, just pull leaves out of the packs until it sits and rides how you want.

Cost you nothing other than your time.

Cheers

funny, i made a post about that in another thread, but not my own,,,, pulled the 3rd and 5th leaves from all four corners and it rides great.

 

[RHINO]

I liked the school signage on the doors.

so did i, but i thought it would be better not there, after i removed it i kinda wish i didnt.

 

[RUSH55]

so did i, but i thought it would be better not there, after i removed it i kinda wish i didnt.

It’ll always be a part of its history, but that time is over. It’s no longer shuttling school children around. You made the right decision.

 

[RHINO]

I'm ridding the interior of brown and doing a dark gray instead of the current light gray, besides everybody does light gray if only because that's what's available.

Anyway, door cards, I was going to make my own from scratch then I stumbled across australiandoorcards.com and they had my color, in ABS. I saw they offered shipping to USA so I pulled the trigger.

Not for the purists, but I'm not restoring this rig and I do what I like.

They are ABS, mimick the looks with routered lines and mount with very nice looking push rivets.

The packaging is an absolute thing of beauty in itself.

I am very happy with these and just might order the rest of the set to match.

 

[Honger]

Man, those look fantastic. Wish they weren't out of brown...