New person saying hello. (update 10-15-10)
Well here is the scoop, I own a 1958 FJ40 and this is the story behind it. Around the early 1970s my dad decided to buy a Land Cruiser (from the first owner) just before being discharged from the Navy. He drove it happily for about eight years. In 1980 as my parents were moving to Atlanta the transmission went out a block away from their new home. At the time my dad never had the money to fix it so it sat in the garage. Eight years later I came along, I remember always sitting in it wishing I could drive it. In 1996 we moved to Tennessee, we sent the Land Cruiser to a cousins house in Southern Georgia. In 1998 my dad decided it was finally time to fix the "Cruncher" as we called it. We did a small amount of work to it until my older sister found a 71 MG Midget she couldn't stand to live without. The Cruncher went on the back burner while me and my dad worked on the MG. We moved again and both the MG and the Land Cruiser went on the back burner so we could fix an old house we moved into. Two years later my dad want to get both cars done. He passed away in 2001 before we could start working on them again. My mom sold the MG shortly thereafter. I was thirteen at the time and my mom said she might want to sell the Cruncher and my answer was of course "NO!". We had family friends from all the way back in Atlanta that had a son who built hot rods and restored classic car. They to wanted to restore the Cruncher for my 16th birthday. Well seeing that they are about four years late its not going to happen. Their son got a job with Toyota building Nascar bodies. Im not going to complain its been sitting in South Carolina (their current home) in a garage since 2002. For the past couple of years I have been wanting to get the Cruncher to Missouri. I have been looking up shipping rates and of course I really cant afford them. An old friend of my that was my service writer at Honda told me about this site, (NoMoreFires! is his name on this site) I love it so far. The main reason he told me to join was about MUD ship. I will post an ad there tomorrow. I do happen to have some old photos of it that I scanned the other day. BTW, I might get flamed from you guys, I have another life in the relm of old BMWs. Oh yeah I forgot
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Well here is the scoop, I own a 1958 FJ40 and this is the story behind it. Around the early 1970s my dad decided to buy a Land Cruiser (from the first owner) just before being discharged from the Navy. He drove it happily for about eight years. In 1980 as my parents were moving to Atlanta the transmission went out a block away from their new home. At the time my dad never had the money to fix it so it sat in the garage. Eight years later I came along, I remember always sitting in it wishing I could drive it. In 1996 we moved to Tennessee, we sent the Land Cruiser to a cousins house in Southern Georgia. In 1998 my dad decided it was finally time to fix the "Cruncher" as we called it. We did a small amount of work to it until my older sister found a 71 MG Midget she couldn't stand to live without. The Cruncher went on the back burner while me and my dad worked on the MG. We moved again and both the MG and the Land Cruiser went on the back burner so we could fix an old house we moved into. Two years later my dad want to get both cars done. He passed away in 2001 before we could start working on them again. My mom sold the MG shortly thereafter. I was thirteen at the time and my mom said she might want to sell the Cruncher and my answer was of course "NO!". We had family friends from all the way back in Atlanta that had a son who built hot rods and restored classic car. They to wanted to restore the Cruncher for my 16th birthday. Well seeing that they are about four years late its not going to happen. Their son got a job with Toyota building Nascar bodies. Im not going to complain its been sitting in South Carolina (their current home) in a garage since 2002. For the past couple of years I have been wanting to get the Cruncher to Missouri. I have been looking up shipping rates and of course I really cant afford them. An old friend of my that was my service writer at Honda told me about this site, (NoMoreFires! is his name on this site) I love it so far. The main reason he told me to join was about MUD ship. I will post an ad there tomorrow. I do happen to have some old photos of it that I scanned the other day. BTW, I might get flamed from you guys, I have another life in the relm of old BMWs. Oh yeah I forgot
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for this one! Its getting suspenseful! What will it be? 25 or 40?
