By then the truck will be old enough to have been imported twice
All jabbing aside, phenomenal work, still watching with baited breath.
Bah!
Give us six months and see where we are at!

Cheers
By then the truck will be old enough to have been imported twice
All jabbing aside, phenomenal work, still watching with baited breath.
Here's your blueprint:
spray it down with Krown once a month?@SNLC, do the new 70's have the same rust issues as they used to, or has Toyota improved on their body production? I'm getting ready to purchase a new VDJ79 double cab out of Dubai and I'd like to keep that thing as clean as possible. I also live on the SW coast of Angola, so I know salt air is a part of life.
New ones are better but still not rust proofed like a 200.
I'm not the least bit afraid of RHD trucks and I buy exclusively on condition. My 1988 JDM BJ74 has NO rust at all.
@SNLC, do the new 70's have the same rust issues as they used to, or has Toyota improved on their body production? I'm getting ready to purchase a new VDJ79 double cab out of Dubai and I'd like to keep that thing as clean as possible. I also live on the SW coast of Angola, so I know salt air is a part of life.
Those 200 don't seem so rust proofed either. Look all of those east coast examples.
The 2 rhd troopys that I have had where indeed pretty much rust free but stress cracks could be found at several spots so they would need a frame of like this to make em perfect anyway and if you don’t perform the lhd swap you still end up with a less desirable rhd.
Awesome job Ian , I spend enough time working on these to realize how much time and effort it takes.
Strangely enough I saw some rust in the rear doors of my buddies 76 coming from Toyota Gibraltar. I was shocked... Hoping that going through Dubai gets me a better vehicle that hasn't been sitting around as long. @SNLC, keeping them washed is what I do. Clean the bottom of my 200 and my caravan thoroughly after every trip. I'll do the same with the 79. I'll look into the surface protectors. Not sure I'll be able to source them in Angola, but might find something similar in Namibia.
melt the pile down and make a bumper out of it