Show us your FJ40 then and now

[igotta40]

November 1980 and more recently

 

[Economist LC76]

Cool idea!
Before

After

Subsequent storage

 

[RodrigzCrzr]

Purchased June 3 2021
Got it running
And driving June 3 2022

 

[jim land]

1992 and 2023

 

[1911]

Then:

Now:

 

[cruiserboy14]

Then
And now

 

[GA Architect]

Photos from the day I bought it:

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Photos of it today:

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A month ago, right before I took the top off:

 

[Greek Cruiserhead]

As sogncab from Minnesota said: "what a fun thread idea"!
So let the fun begin!
2005, the day I purchased my BJ42 (1984 vintage) in Speyer, Germany:
200,000 km (125,000 miles), several previous owners and paint jobs (681 "John Deere Green")...
Moreover, several rust spots/dubious repairs/non OEM parts (seats, roll bar, door cards etc)...

 

[Greek Cruiserhead]

After 18 months at a Toyota dealership in N. Germany the frame-off resto is complete and the money pit looks (hopefully) better in his new (4E9 beige) skirt. This 60/70/80-Series colour, although not a 40-Series one, is period correct!

Used many CCOT parts and hardware, e.g. all the components of a half-tub (everything behind the front seats), front fenders (made in Taiwan!) etc, no issues since then.

 

[Greek Cruiserhead]

Some years later in Greece, checked out by my brother (the wrencher of the family) and our Boxer George (my avatar's puppy)...

PS. You may see more pics at my signature.

 

[MAK1]

Then: 2017

So far:

 

[Living in the Past]

Oldest picture I have easy access to of my 68 which is probably early eighties.

Spent most of the nineties from 94 on as a soft top.

My son destroyed the clutch in 2005 and has been parked ever since. He promised he would help replace it and still waiting.

But I have been without a cruiser to drive.

At one time I had seventeen Land Cruisers including projects. Plan is to get down to a more manageable number.

 

[Catching Neutral]

Before (then)

Now (after)

 

[dazerb]

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Was all that red underneath the green ?! How did you get to it? Links to thread??

 

[germaneighter]

Then Jan 2013 and now
....slowly but surely...

 

[middlecalf]

Was all that red underneath the green ?! How did you get to it? Links to thread??

Yeah what was left of the original paint was under brown primer and green paint. There are even a few places where there’s some yellow so it was also painted yellow at some point before the green . I mostly used citrus stripper and scraping, then light wet sanding. There was a lot of bondo used as leveling over bare metal that I removed and painted those areas with rustoleum regal red and sanded that to remove gloss and “age” it. Same with any new metal, and there is lots of that. Build thread (‘63 FJ45) link is in sig line. Here’s a link to one of many posts in that thread wrt paint stuff.

Well back to chasing the original paint fairy. Lizzy told me to keep at it, and she’s the boss, always.

Looks like whoever rattle caned this just sprayed brown primer over the original paint wherever they had access. Obviously not between bed and cab, and also not anywhere in the interior. Wherever the primer overspray was applied i can leave the citrus stripper on longer to work both rattlecan layers, and the original paint seems to be less brittle. Have no idea how long this thing was painted over but maybe that saved some of the outside original paint from environmental decay. I made it to the overspray primer line on the back today. Not as shiny as new paint on the bottom but not bad for 56yrs.
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[fjdiesel]

September 2015

Yes, I saved the door. lol

At SAS7 last month

 

[DangerNoodle]

2020:

2 different cruisers, both really po'd and rusty.

2023:

 

[jim land]

2015 and now

 

[zerotreedelta]

Family one-owner...repaired once in '88 (the gray), and parked in about 2003. Full soup-to-nuts redo in the garage in 2020.