Who are we?(what's the demographic of this group?)

[TopGear]

38
Senior Planner for a cable company.
Married with four kids. (Needed 8 seats!)

Wife and kids are as excited about the 'Cruiser as I am!
Started my Toyota driving career with a '72 Corolla ("Hemi"), then a '77 Celica and an '84 Supra.
This is my first 4x4 and my favorite vehicle by far.
Attempting my first Birfield repack next week. (Can't wait.)
Other hobbies include Nitro RC Trucks and anything computer related.

I haven't posted much so far, but I have gained so much knowledge from the people on this site. A really awesome group!

 

[drohweder]

18yr old high school student, Atlanta native.

will be studying Mechanical Engineering at either GA Tech or Clemson next year.

Haven't decided which cruiser is goin to college with me yet.

Fortunate Son. I had wet dreams about owning 2 80s when I was your age

 

[EDPA]

42
Married
Seattle, WA
Emergency Medicine Physician Assistant
Avid reader of this forum
Purchased my first LC (white 97 with 66K miles with locks in July, 2004 from a elderly lady who never took it off the pavement) after living out of a LC for 4 days while in Boliva a couple of years ago. Could not get that experience out of mind since, so just had to have one. Since owning it a nice transformation has been taking place - BFGs 285's, OME lift, among other goodies. Currently waiting for ARB bull bar to come in at any time.

 

[MTNRAT]

44
hitched
Fernie,BC
Theatre owner,
carpenter,
contractor,
college teacher,
Ski bum,
Semi retired,
developer.
Hell I don't know what I am.
Always wanted an 80 since 91.
Sean

 

[Buckru]

37 but, will be 38 this coming weekend
single but with hottie girlfriend who keeps telling me to spend money on the cruiser. Hell yes I'm gonna marry this one.
Native Texan here in Houston
Registered Financial Consultant-Insurance and Investments

I have backpacked all my life. I found out I have some some serious degenerative problems with my ankles due to surgery as a kid and probably wont be able to backpack for too many more years. So instead of hiring sherpas and porters, I bought an 80. I'm getting to the back country one way or another.

Buck

 

[upcruiser]

29

I work for the US Ski Team/USSA.
I grew up bouncing around the back of my dad's old 40 and was hooked.
I picked up a 60 when I was in college, then bought my 80 when I gradgitated. Nothing else that I've tried compares. I love a bunch of different outdoor activites, kayaking, mountain biking, road biking, skiing of course, etc My other HUGE passion is sports cars and I have a serious addiction to a particular German marque.

I love travelling and spending every moment that I can getting out into nature in one form or another. The 80 symbolizes my sense of adventure. I'm single, but met an amazing woman down in Chile this past summer who is moving here at the end of this month. Whoo! Hoo! Life is indeed good!

 

[Bear80]

23

Still at Baylor University, gave up mechanical engineering with only 2 semesters left for corporate finance/prepharmacy...more monies for my toys in that.

Started off a Toyota junkie from birth riding in the coolest Toyota ever made, my dad's (mine now) '77 Celica. Got to be a 4wheeling monster after one trip in his 4x4 pickup when I was 15....got my own first thing when I turnd 16. Then shortly after I realized his '95 FZJ80 was the greatest 4x4 ever built...I mean factory lockers!

 

[Texus]

28 yrs child-like, PSU grad film/tv/media, had a love w/ 5.9 JGC ( that f'er does wheel...but...) EMT for 11 yrs, back doing it full time... so this is how it happened... my son was about to be born in a couple weeks (May 04)... I just moved back across the map from CA & CO to PA... broke a rocker arm in my 89 BMW 325is w/ 293K... never a motor prob until this time... so instead of replacing the $12 part initially (mind you... that's the part... not the labor)... was hanging w/ a bud who was on his 2nd 80...then he helped me find mine... 97 LX, locked, blah blah blah... but will always hold a german pride... so I rebuilt the bimmer & sent it to hybernate (is that how you spell that?)... I have owned it (LX) since May... and can't remember what it was like not having a repair bill every month... so I'm hooked... now she would love to get a cruiser...or shall I say, wants to drive this & will "let" me use the 5.9... huh...

 

[NovaFZJ80]

just turned 32 yo
Cost Acct for major defense contractor "global hawk drone"

Fell in love with the 80 back in the early to mid 90s saw them everywhere growing up...really liked how the tailgate folded down and top portion up...from then on always wanted one, but too expensive for me...figure needed something for the winter/moving around besides my civic si...figure $10k, could afford it now...now climbing with maintenance done to it...

plus long list of toyotas owned by family members
87 FX16 Hatchback GTS
91 Corolla DX
94 Celica ST
89 Camry LE
95 4runner sport
02 4runner sport
93 FZJ 80

 

[Tank]

30 Years Old
Fraud Analyst for a large Internet company (Guess)
Omaha, Nebraska
My family, including my dog...loves the fact we own a vehicle that can get me to hell and back. Also helps owning vehicle that not every Tom, Dick and Harry own down the street (Sorry Jeep owners)

 

[SeaTown Adam]

26 yo
Seattle, WA
IT Manager for "the world's largest roaster and purveyer of specialty coffee"

My wife and I do enough active outdoor activities (mtn biking, hiking, skiing, etc) to warrant a larger 4x4. A friend who spent time living in africa shuttling cars back and forth across the sahara for profit showed me some pictures of his adventures. The hottest item down there were 60's and 80's and he trusted life and limb to his LC on numerous occasions. That (and the months of lurking around this site) pretty much sold me on getting an 80. Having and driving the 80 has only fueled a desire for more. I'm already planning for another 80, and maybe a 100 someday

 

[phishtaco]

29 yo
Cincinnati, OH
Kitchen Designer
Married with a 3 month old(which is the reason I got an 80 and40) instead of the Taco)
I've always had a toyota truck, except for that pos isuzu impulse turbo that I had for six months.
My wife drives a 4runner.

 

[mooker82]

22 in Charleston SC
In med school for a whole lot more time.
Just upgraded from a 74 Bronco

 

[TLCObsession]

42
Educated as a EE, but have been in Sales & Marketing for the last 19 years, mostly technology & consumer electronics, but now Hand-Crafted Log Homes for an Idaho based company (which I love!)

I think I was inspired to own a Cruiser when I was a kid hiking around Europe in the 70's and seeing LR's everywhere - but a few TLCs just stood out. As a result, I am a long time Cruiserhead, (in addition to being a lifelong car nut). I have had a couple of 40s, a 60 and the 80 Series.

In reality both our previous 60 and current 80 have been my wife's DD - years ago when she was pregnant and visiting friends in Tahoe during a major snow storm, I knew she would get home safely. I use my 80 as a real truck fairly often, and like working on Toyotas better than almost any other motor powered device...

I have a 8.5 yo boy who has grown up Cruising and wrenching and a 3 month old boy who is currently preventing me from wrenching & Cruising.

Jim

 

[tlcruiser]

Arya-->great idea...I was wondering this myself a few weeks back, but didn't act. I lurk too much.

37 years
Major in the Air Force; work missile warning in Cheyenne Mountain
BA History; MS Management
Colorado Springs, CO
upgrade from my '95 Monty (Montero) and b/c the 80 is the best looking 4x4 on the road

 

[Radd Cruisers]

44
hitched
Fernie,BC
Theatre owner,
carpenter,
contractor,
college teacher,
Ski bum,
Semi retired,
developer.
Hell I don't know what I am.
Always wanted an 80 since 91.
Sean

Hey Sean, I pulled out of Fernie two nights ago after purchasing a 1984 BJ42, I am sure you know whos it is since Fernie has a fairly low population?

600+Miles back to the Island and I still love those diesels, I would take the 80 for comfort any day over a 80.

What a spectacular drive back, we use to spend our holidays in Nelson, never made it past thier until this week.

I was told GOLD is big in the Fernie area, do you have a hand it that pot also?

Rob
www.raddcrusiers.ca

 

[Radd Cruisers]

the .8, does that make it Canadian years?

Err yep, as Bob and Doug Mackenzie would say (Hozzer).

 

[Eric_FJ40]

Awesome thread...

I'm 32 pushing 33. Single, never married but have lived with the same girlfriend for 6 or 7 years now.

Quality Manager for an independant EMC test lab/Telecommunications Certification Body (TCB) - means we test and approve RF devices for the US market.

Born and raised in Palm Beach County - lived in Yuma, AZ thanks to the Marine Corps (5 years) and now live near Gainesville, FL (High Springs).

Stumbled on my 1991 FJ80 this year after just missing Kaderabek's FJ62 by *this* much - funny how things work! Absolutely love it and it's 3FE powerplant (so THERE!).

Sold the Saturn (good car) when I got the 80 so now we have a 3-Toyota driveway: 78 FJ40 (his), 91 FJ80 (his) and an 04 D-cab Tundra (HERS).

previous Toys include an 88 4-Runner that girlfriend had when we met and an 02 D-cab Taco that we had until the D-cab Tundra's came out this year.


Eric

 

[boydmick]

39, Lifeguard Lieutenant (- - insert Baywatch comment here - -)
Single, w/live in girlfriend
3 Australian Shepherd monsters
<=== That's Lightning

Bought the 80 when my girlfriend's GMC bit the dust. She blew the head gasket and destroyed the radiator; now she drives my Cherokee and I drive the 80!

The dogs love those sliding rear windows!

 

[MTNRAT]

Rob, most likeley will know the cruiser. Not sure what type of GOLD you mean. If it is green GOLD , i am not much of a farmer, black gold; not much of a coal miner, If you mean white GOLD, alot of the town mines that stuff on the local Mtn. Too bad we did not hook up.
Cheers,
Sean