We are Racing The Baja 1000 In an 80 Series Land Cruiser!!!

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Hey Guys

Its been killing me keeping this a secret, but its time to let the cat out of the bag, a little bit anyway! :D

I am proud to announce that Baja Overland (www.bajaoverland.com) has teamed up with the Procinctu Tactical Training Facility (website soon) to build and race an 80 series Land Cruiser in this years Baja1000!

We are in the Stock Full class and are # 876! The class consists of an 08 Tundra, Us, and a bunch of H1 Hummers!

This year is the 40th Anniversary and the race is going all the way from Ensenada to Cabo San Lucas! The course is 1296 Miles with a time limit of 53 hours!

The core build/race team consists of 4 friends, 3 of which are Land Cruiser nuts and the other is a hot rod builder. We are building this thing basically from scratch!

The 4 of us building the truck are also the 4 driving it!

We are breaking up the driving duties into (4) 325 Mile legs!

This has been an insanely involved project, but we have a ton of great sponsors helping us out and are very eager to do this!

Toyota Trails is covering the entire build of the truck and the race for us over 3 different issues!

If you arent a TLCA member, get on it! :D The 3rd Issue (for the race) will have us on the cover!

Bookmark this page for updates: http://www.bajaoverland.com/racetruck.php

Until the first issues are in members hands, i am sworn to secrecy over builld details, but here are some sneek peaks:

The Victim, very nice 93 FZJ80 with Factory Lockers:
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The result as of last week:
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More Details Coming In The Next Issue Of Trails

HUGE THANKS TO ALL OF OUR SPONSORS!!!!

Baja Overland: http://www.bajaoverland.com/
Procinctu Tactical Training Facility (website soon)
Toyota Trails Magazine: http://www.tlca.org/trails/
San Diego Trux: http://www.sdtrux.com
Trail Ready Race Beadlocks: http://www.trailready.com
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TLC Wagon Parts: http://www.tlcwagonparts.com/
BFGoodrich Tires: http://www.bfgoodrichtires.com
Vision X Lighting: http://www.visionxoffroad.com/
Mobi-Arc Onboard Welders: www.mobi-arc.com
Equipt Expedtion Outfitters: http://www.equipt1.com
Poly Performance: http://www.polyperformance.com/
Cruiseroutfitters: http://www.cruiseroutfitters.com/
Front Range Offroad: http://www.frontrangeoffroadfab.com
Diamond Axle: http://www.diamondaxle.com
Crow Enterprises Safety Gear: http://www.crowenterprizes.com/
Direct Concept Engineering: www.directconcepteng.com
Adventure Medical Kits: http://www.adventuremedicalkits.com/
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Suweeet! You guys are my new heros! I'll be watching, best of luck.
 
Very cool.
Congratulations and best of luck. We'll be cheering for you.

Alvaro
 
It'll be way cool when a Tundra and a 15 year old "grocery getter" leave a bunch of big, bad Hummers in the dust.

Can't wait!

Looking forward to the updates, and lots (and lots) of pics.

Good luck out there (and don't forget to install the pee tubes) !!
 
It'll be way cool when a Tundra and a 15 year old "grocery getter" leave a bunch of big, bad Hummers in the dust.

Was done in 2000 by Nick Le in a 1992 FJ80. Oddly, that run was also from Ensenada to Cabo.
 
Kevin, did you get those shock mounts installed? PICS!:beer::beer::beer:
 
Was done in 2000 by Nick Le in a 1992 FJ80. Oddly, that run was also from Ensenada to Cabo.

The famous "sign mangler" during his aussie rent a car days :D

He lost a front control arm bolt, and they couldnt find another the right size, chassis end, might be worth logging that in the memory bank ;)
 
The famous "sign mangler" during his aussie rent a car days :D

He lost a front control arm bolt, and they couldnt find another the right size, chassis end, might be worth logging that in the memory bank ;)

Thanks for the heads up, we got a complete set of ALL spare drivetrain bolts, all properly labeled for easy ID'ing! :D
 
I just finished watching "Dust to Glory" today. Man am I jealous of you guys!
 

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