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I believe these are aftermarket. Does anyone know who offers them or could possibly translate from the website?

www.4x4magazin.hu

Csak 60 darab van belőle a világon! Gazdáját keresi egy kabrió Toyota Land Cruiser Soft Top Cabriole

Nepperűző | Ez a tipikus ilyen nincs és mégis van kategória... Elképesztő különlegesség érkezett a Sandlander hernádi bázisára, egy kabrió GRJ71-es Toyota Land Cruiser Soft Top Cabriolet. Igen, igen, nem tévedés, rendkívül ritka jármű került a magyar manufaktúrához, 2010-ben a J7-es sorozat...
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As far as I get it from the website:

The article is from 2020 and announces a rare classified at Sandlander, a Hungarian Landcruiser specialist.
The depicted vehicle ia a GRJ71 Toyota Land Cruiser Soft Top Cabriolet. A very rare special edition, which was relased in 2010 for the 60th anniversary of the J7-series. It is said, total number of (accordingly) 60 vehicles were build worldwide, plus another 60 items with softtop (if I got it right).
The vehicle featured 'all offroad extras of the era, including snorkel, winch and lockers front and rear' as well as 'improved cooling and heating'.

The vehicle on sale had a 4L V6 Petrol at 286hp and had 16000km on the teller.
 
I bet you the VIN for that thing won't show FRP top. Probably started life as a FST and modified afterwards. There are a few South American SWB examples I have seen with FRP top as well.

Google translate seems to suggest that example in the article is a factory soft top anyways. I bet the current owner just modified an existing FRP top onto it.
 
FJ73Texas said:
I bet you the VIN for that thing won't show FRP top. Probably started life as a FST and modified afterwards. There are a few South American SWB examples I have seen with FRP top as well.

Google translate seems to suggest that example in the article is a factory soft top anyways. I bet the current owner just modified an existing FRP top onto it.
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Yes I understand it's a factory soft top but I dont believe FRP were available for the SWB models at least not from toyota. I'm looking to purchase a top for mine.
 
I wouldn't be into doing fiberglass work either.
 
roma042987 said:
Yeah been there done that. It looks like the top is not included with that one either :(
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Sorry, it was originally listed for $1000 and the top was not excluded then. Now it is just a worthless pile of rust for $800. I say good luck to him getting someone to pay him to haul it off.
 
roma042987 said:
I believe these are aftermarket. Does anyone know who offers them or could possibly translate from the website?

www.4x4magazin.hu

Csak 60 darab van belőle a világon! Gazdáját keresi egy kabrió Toyota Land Cruiser Soft Top Cabriole

Nepperűző | Ez a tipikus ilyen nincs és mégis van kategória... Elképesztő különlegesség érkezett a Sandlander hernádi bázisára, egy kabrió GRJ71-es Toyota Land Cruiser Soft Top Cabriolet. Igen, igen, nem tévedés, rendkívül ritka jármű került a magyar manufaktúrához, 2010-ben a J7-es sorozat...
www.4x4magazin.hu www.4x4magazin.hu

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Hello,

The rear side vent grilles are missing. This detail gives it away as a factory soft top.

They did a good job with that FRP top.





Juan
 
The FJ73 soft top I owned had the side vents. Perhaps that is just a 70/71 thing.
 
Definitely an aftermarket mod based on a J73 FRP top.

Seems to be quite common on old soft top cruisers instead of buying a new soft-top.
Now on why doing this to the last of the last of the softtop GRJ71 imported at high ost by someone this is a bit weirder...

A very quick search for LJ70 for sale here shows these:
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FJ73Texas said:
Look at this factory 73 FST at the Land Cruiser Heritage Museum. It has the side vents just like the FJ73 I had did.

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Land Cruiser Heritage Museum - 1988 FJ73 - https://landcruiserhm.com/museum-collection/vehicle-collection/90-1988-fj73
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Another one:
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Maybe the J73 was made to be able to goes from soft-top to hard-top with only one body and sometime with factory had-top but also local made hard-top, so to keep the simplicity they put the vent for all.

On the J70 you anyway need 2 different parts for the rear sides between the van version and the soft-top version, so you can simplify the soft-top version...


But for sure this is a very little quirk of those vehicles.
 
Hello,

The rear side vent grill acts like a check valve, letting inside air out but not allowing outside air in. Like an overpressure system, in my opinion.

Perhaps Toyota decided such air flow was not important on a short wheel base 70 Series with a soft top.







Juan
 
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