What's up Mud! The 100 series community is incredible and I'm glad to finally be a part of it. In all honesty I never saw myself as a "LandCruiser" guy. For years I drove beater Toyota 2wd trucks. I followed the typical Toyota trajectory and landed in a 93' 4x4 pickup. I threw some BFG's on it and rear auto locker and drove it for years.
Fully bit by the wheelin' and camping bug (now branded as 'Overlanding' apparently) I moved onto building a proper rock crawling rig. It's a 1990 4Runner with a multitude of acronyms and numbers like SAS and ARB and 5.29's and 37's etc. It's incredibly capable off road and I still drive it and wheel it to this day.
But ^^^ LETSWHL lacked a lot of things, like air conditioning, air bags, and the ability to drive straight or go above 65 mph. When my wife and I learned that we had a baby on the way, I knew we needed a "family 4x4". I'd wheeled with a few 100 series guys and I'd seen first hand how capable the platform was, so the search was on for a 100 series I could call my own.
I found one! And it just happened to be in central Iowa (I live in Redwood City CA). After many conversations with the owner, exchanges of receipts, VIN checking etc, I bought a one-way ticket to the middle of nowhere Iowa and picked up my 07' LX 470.
Here's my first pic of the beauty during my 1800 mile please-don't-breakdown-on-me-in-the-middle-of-Wyoming return drive home:
All along the drive home I kept telling myself "I can't believe I'm actually in a Land Cruiser". It really was a thrill and the drive back across the country was uneventful.
Now the previous owner had done some tasteful mods that gave me a headstart on my own build. He had the AHC deleted, OME rear springs and torsion bars installed as well as SLEE shocks and sliders. These were almost exactly the mods I had planned on doing when I got a 100 series, so I was happy to find a 100 that already had this relatively expensive work done.
So my tenure with the rig began in March of 07' with 150,000 miles on the clock, it's just barely broken in right? more to come...
Fully bit by the wheelin' and camping bug (now branded as 'Overlanding' apparently) I moved onto building a proper rock crawling rig. It's a 1990 4Runner with a multitude of acronyms and numbers like SAS and ARB and 5.29's and 37's etc. It's incredibly capable off road and I still drive it and wheel it to this day.
But ^^^ LETSWHL lacked a lot of things, like air conditioning, air bags, and the ability to drive straight or go above 65 mph. When my wife and I learned that we had a baby on the way, I knew we needed a "family 4x4". I'd wheeled with a few 100 series guys and I'd seen first hand how capable the platform was, so the search was on for a 100 series I could call my own.
I found one! And it just happened to be in central Iowa (I live in Redwood City CA). After many conversations with the owner, exchanges of receipts, VIN checking etc, I bought a one-way ticket to the middle of nowhere Iowa and picked up my 07' LX 470.
Here's my first pic of the beauty during my 1800 mile please-don't-breakdown-on-me-in-the-middle-of-Wyoming return drive home:
All along the drive home I kept telling myself "I can't believe I'm actually in a Land Cruiser". It really was a thrill and the drive back across the country was uneventful.
Now the previous owner had done some tasteful mods that gave me a headstart on my own build. He had the AHC deleted, OME rear springs and torsion bars installed as well as SLEE shocks and sliders. These were almost exactly the mods I had planned on doing when I got a 100 series, so I was happy to find a 100 that already had this relatively expensive work done.
So my tenure with the rig began in March of 07' with 150,000 miles on the clock, it's just barely broken in right? more to come...
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