So some of this story is over in my intro thread (Introduction - ‘84 FJ40 non-US spec - https://forum.ih8mud.com/threads/introduction-84-fj40-non-us-spec.1294212/) but I’ve learned a lot getting this guy back into shape so thought I’d collect the info in one place. Buddy has a 1978 that he got in the late 90s after college, and I’ve been hooked ever since. Finally got to a place where I could acquire one so started watching them on BaT a few years ago but unfortunately didn’t know about IH8MUD at the time. Saw this one (No Reserve: 1984 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40 - https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1984-toyota-land-cruiser-fj40-7/) come through in August 2022 - NR auction and it looked good to the others that I’d seen over the prior 18 months. I’d bid on a few but never one, though never seriously tried. So there I am, at work on a random Thursday afternoon and I get the alert that the auction is ending in an hour. Price looked really low, so I dropped in a bid thinking that I’d get beat because all the auctions seem to take off in the last 30 mins. Then promptly jumped on a conference call and forgot about it. About an hour later I get a call on my cell phone from a number in TX that I didn’t recognize, and I suddenly got an “oh sh!t“ moment - hadn’t exactly cleared this with the wifey. So that’s how the story began.
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