New LV and new to the board

[ljspoon]

Hello all, I am new here and just found this board. I just traded for a Toyota FJ45LV and hoped that someone could help with the year and maybe some guidance on restoration. I hope to get it back to my house in a week or so but I went up and took some pictures of it yesterday. The guy I traded ended up with this in a scrap deal and offered it to me for my old 54 REO Deuce and a half. He is still looking for the title, hopefully he can find it. Let me know what you think

 

[ljspoon]

Well I guess I cant upload any more pics and I cant get rid of these and resize them all. The ID tag under the reads FJ45-25180

 

[45Kevin]

Nice find...but does it have a frame?

 

[ljspoon]

Yes it actually does I live in eastern Washington where things stay a bit more dry. There is not very much rust on it, I stuck the camera up underneath and snapped a few pics and the frame looks very nice

 

[fogblanket]

I believe it is a 66, alot of that surface rust is just tht surface rust but you will be replacing steel here and there. there are a number of good build threads on this board go through buckoreuseses in the stickies at the top of the page. for an idea of what its guna take
jason

 

[ljspoon]

Great looks as though I have about $500 invested in right now so I guess that leaves room for however many thousands it will take to restore it. I have been checking out some of the builds and it looks like this will be fun

 

[ljspoon]

Looking at the other pictures it has a locking gas door I was told it was a 66, looking forward to getting it home it is very complete. Engine has all of its stickers and original air cleaner assembly I cant wait to get it home

 

[cult45]

Keeping the patina?

 

[ljspoon]

No, I think its going to be a restoration new paint eventually. Now that it is out of the weeds it looks a lot better. It even has the old dog dish hubcaps on the front wheels. We just dug out the original rear seat and the guy I got it from thinks that he saw the other two hub caps. The engine turns over and I was informed that it was parked when the rear end started giving out. There is a replacement rear end in the back though.