“VOICES FROM THE GLOVEBOX.......” (#1)

[groundeater]

.... What exactly
is it that causes the somewhat neurological impulse of the maniacal...
“Cruise-aholic ?”

How is it that hunks of formed steel & big rubber cause a lust of the eye only to a small segment of
society?
Every picture of them stirs up an endless desire for yet another picture ? Feasting our eyes on every aspect, every angle, every part of a machine that commands attention..(and it DOES !) as it continues to make its way through the streets, highways & byways of time...

Gentlemen, please remove your hats here...(I am a little bias) when it comes to the FJ-45, with all due respect to the other models, a notation HAD to be made out of sheer reverence !

Our itinerary is laid out here in pic #5. You’ll have to overlook the “vermin damage” of some of the pages,...1967 was long ago.

 

[cuteo100]

They sported white top and military tires for the FJ45 back in 1967?

 

[groundeater]

They sported white top and military tires for the FJ45 back in 1967?

Just an innocent bystander here bro, my ‘45 preceded yours by a mere 3 digits (FJ-45 30310) wasn’t this manual in your glovebox ?

 

[cuteo100]

Just an innocent bystander here bro, my ‘45 preceded yours by a mere 3 digits (FJ-45 30310) wasn’t this manual in your glovebox ?

Not in my glove box. Lucky you! My rig has gone through several owners, but according to Steve Kopito who was one of the previous owners, it originally was a one of the 10 FJ45s from the John Espil Sheep Ranching Company used for running jobs between the wide deserts of Gerlach, NV and Susanville, CA back in the days. If your VIN is that close to mine, it might have been one of those 10 rigs.

 

[groundeater]

Not in my glove box. Lucky you! My rig has gone through several owners, but according to Steve Kopito who was one of the previous owners, it originally was a one of the 10 FJ45s from the John Espil Sheep Ranching Company used for running jobs between the wide deserts of Gerlach, NV and Susanville, CA back in the days. If your VIN is that close to mine, it might have been one of those 10 rigs.

Great to know that bit of history about your rig, I only WISH that I could lay claim to those same facts.
I don’t have any history on mine, wish I did, they are unique trucks for sure. You don’t suppose Steve Kopito has any idea if the 10 trucks were purchased & the VIN #’s were in sequence ? (maybe, just maybe !?)

Well bro...(@cuteo100) since you have shared the history with me of your rig & ?possibly? mine as well, I want to share the voices that this glovebox manual exudes to those of us that are of the same mind & conviction. I’ve been amazed at the integrity & general knowledge of the “...brotherhood of TLC maniacs.” Though being generally a “newbie” to the site, it (Ih8MUD) has been just the THERAPY needed for my/our sickness !

Not in my glove box. Lucky you! My rig has gone through several owners, but according to Steve Kopito who was one of the previous owners, it originally was a one of the 10 FJ45s from the John Espil Sheep Ranching Company used for running jobs between the wide deserts of Gerlach, NV and Susanville, CA back in the days. If your VIN is that close to mine, it might have been one of those 10 rigs.

Not in my glove box. Lucky you! My rig has gone through several owners, but according to Steve Kopito who was one of the previous owners, it originally was a one of the 10 FJ45s from the John Espil Sheep Ranching Company used for running jobs between the wide deserts of Gerlach, NV and Susanville, CA back in the days. If your VIN is that close to mine, it might have been one of those 10 rigs.

 

[groundeater]

Don’t mean to be windy, but by you pointing out what you (@cuteo100) did about military tires etc. on the FJ-45’s in 1967 was thought provoking for me as well. The manual was in the glove box. I just assumed...and we all know the dangerous ground we are on when using this word ! The word itself tells us the story...when one “assumes” it makes an ASS out of U and an ASS out of ME ! ASS U ME !

(Senior moment there)... anyway, I assumed since it came out of my ‘67’s glovebox that it was standard issue, and was the CORRECT one. Maybe one of the historians of the site knows what was issued to all mdl’s of TLC’s in ‘67 ? I was just fortunate to have acquired the manual. Many years prior to buying my truck, when just a sprout, I caught site of it...and was jolted by the “bug or virus” of the infirmity/contagion ...“maniacal Cruiseritis.” Long (windy) story short, years later while owning a ‘74 FJ-40 I spotted my ‘45 at a ordinary CAR LOT of all places ! (What an insult !) I drove immediately to the bank and got a $2300 loan to rescue it from the hands of “ordinary” people, (who clearly didn’t realize the Legend FJ45 that they were in the presence of !!)
Somehow they were immune from the contagion that we in (the brotherhood) were all
infected by...!