Pics from Colombia South America

worldcruiser · Mar 22, 2006

Well....fj40 quantities in argentina are very limited, because the of the fact that JEEP gave an argentinian company the license to manufacture a version of the willis and other similar models. The name of the company manufacturing them was IKA (Industrias Kaiser Argentinas). Also another reason is because even though argentina has mountains it is for the most part flat compared to colombia....where its most important export product (Coffee) is grown on the mountains.

worldcruiser · Mar 22, 2006

By the way I am goint to make another trip sometime soon to Colombia...if anyone would like to come you are welcome. The few pics I was able to take are not even half of all the cruisers I saw.

krzyabncanuck · Mar 23, 2006

Those were some cool pics man. Looks like they do some good work in some of those shops you were at.

worldcruiser · Mar 23, 2006

i guess you can find all kind of qualities when it comes to building cruisers...for the most part the quality is extremely good.

worldcruiser · Mar 23, 2006

can someone post those pics on this thread???
Its kind of cool being able to have them on the thread

TEPUI · Mar 23, 2006

Pig with 70's front?

cruiser4life · Mar 23, 2006

worldcruiser said:
Well....fj40 quantities in argentina are very limited, because the of the fact that JEEP gave an argentinian company the license to manufacture a version of the willis and other similar models. The name of the company manufacturing them was IKA (Industrias Kaiser Argentinas). Also another reason is because even though argentina has mountains it is for the most part flat compared to colombia....where its most important export product (Coffee) is grown on the mountains.

Yeah, I read a lot about IKA when I got back. I have a lot of pictures of of the Estanciera - kind of an old Willys Wagon.

I've never seen so many Defenders in one place though. Probably saw 20-25 110's every day.

I was in Chile for a time too and didn't even see Cruisers there. I think the whole time I was in SA, I saw 1 80 and 3 40's. That's it...

worldcruiser · Mar 23, 2006

you will find cruisers in countries like Colombia,Venezuela,Ecuador and some central american countries.

I know by first hand (Since I grew up there) that the Landcruiser and the Toyota brand helped in shaping Colombia's agricultural economies....they are also widely used in the MUZO region for mining emeralds.

cruiser4life · Mar 23, 2006

Makes sense. I just assumed that the mountainous regions of Chile and Argentina where I was headed would have some good Cruiser eye candy. Didn't expect so much British crap... :crybaby:

I was in Belize about a month ago and saw a ton of Cruisers.

worldcruiser · Mar 23, 2006

I was in argentina las year and did not see one FJ40 as compared to colombia where you see one every 5 minutes. Nedless to say weather it is a 40,70,80,100 etc you see one every 10 seconds...It is really amazing.

Oh by the way...if you look close in the pics at a white FJ40 which seems to be in a garage...that car is armored, it is bulletproof...check it out!

That is another way colombia is famous for the quality and technology in private defense, weather bodygard tactics, bullet proofing cars..etc..etc

worldcruiser · Mar 23, 2006

Also the FZJ 100 coming out of a garage is bullet proof, that one belongs to Italy's Embassador for Colombia. I took the picture from the inside of my uncles apartment in Bogota which is right accros from where the embassy is.

cruiser4life · Mar 23, 2006

worldcruiser said:
Also the FZJ 100 coming out of a garage is bullet proof, that one belongs to Italy's Embassador for Colombia. I took the picture from the inside of my uncles apartment in Bogota which is right accros from where the embassy is.

That is really cool. Man, I've heard you don't want to sumble into the wrong part of Bogota...

TEPUI · Mar 23, 2006

cruiser4life said:
I was in Chile for a time too and didn't even see Cruisers there. I think the whole time I was in SA, I saw 1 80 and 3 40's. That's it...

There are mostly FJ40s here in Chile, the Army imported tons of them in the '70s (Chile has maybe less than a few hundred 60,70 and 80s combined) but tons of Hiluxes...

Why do you think I own a Land Cruiser Prado? (cuz it's the closest thing to a real land cruiser) Now, if you go to Venezuela (where I am originally from) you'll run out of film or memory in your digital camera, it's a LC feast!

worldcruiser · Mar 23, 2006

TEPUI said:
Pig with 70's front?

Bingo!...pretty ingenious fabbing there!!

worldcruiser · Mar 23, 2006

cruiser4life said:
That is really cool. Man, I've heard you don't want to sumble into the wrong part of Bogota...

That could be true, but it could be that way anywhere else....

cruiser4life · Mar 23, 2006

worldcruiser said:
That could be true, but it could be that way anywhere else....

Definitely applies most places in the world. That wasn't a slam on Bogota or Colombia for that matter. I've just heard some interesting stories from my travels about rough areas in Bogota.