$100,000 FJ-40? Must be one of those Columbian imports with coke based bondo?
Why are there so many FJ40's still for sale?
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FloridaLife
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Maybe it will end up on NatGeo or Discovery channel with the CBP and/or DEA and a drug sniffing dog running in circles around it barking at the whole vehicle. I can picture it, and them going all around it chiseling it off, looking in the gas tank, and taking the tires off the wheels to look in there too.
Living in the Past
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Sounds like a farmiliar story except the used FJ40 I bought in 1974 I still own. The southwest is a lot kinder to Japanese metal than other regions
in North, Central and South America. As a result what was purchase because of the infection doesn't easily disappear over time like other regions where mother natural reclaims them.
Saw a movie called “Tower Heist” where the Ferrari sheet metal was solid gold but painted red and stored in Alan Alda’s penthouse apartment. Of course he played an investment crook.
Also watched an expose’ on Texas US border crossings. Those border people are serious. Heaven forbid you don’t even have an ID. I don’t know how a cocaine bondo truck would get through but I’d like to watch that episode
Also watched an expose’ on Texas US border crossings. Those border people are serious. Heaven forbid you don’t even have an ID. I don’t know how a cocaine bondo truck would get through but I’d like to watch that episode
Along time ago man from Uncle guy Illia played a smuggler. He put many trash sacked wrapped duffle bags in the oil pipe line and pushed them miles across the border with a clean out pig. "Any idea is a good idea once" Smuggling bicycles or wheel barrows is a lot safer.
As a lot of FJ40's got turned into garage Queens or at least on their way tucked away to become one, they don't come daily on the roads anymore.
When there is no eye candy the demand goes down.
If everybody starts driving their FJ40's again the demand will go up again
When there is no eye candy the demand goes down.
If everybody starts driving their FJ40's again the demand will go up again
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That’s why I like to keep mine active.
As a lot of FJ40's got turned into garage Queens or at least on their way tucked away to become one, they don't come daily on the roads anymore.
When there is no eye candy the demand goes down.
If everybody starts driving their FJ40's again the demand will go up again
Hardly ever see them on the trails any more either. I miss those days!As a lot of FJ40's got turned into garage Queens or at least on their way tucked away to become one, they don't come daily on the roads anymore.
When there is no eye candy the demand goes down.
If everybody starts driving their FJ40's again the demand will go up again
I think one contributing factor to FJ40’s not driven as much today is the cars today are driven so much more aggressively that it’s tough sometimes to drive a 50 year old 40 in even a little bit of traffic. I still drive mine around and I drive it off road but I rarely see any others around town.
Ain’t nothin’ like the NJ Turnpike at 70mph, 25’ following distance and someone passing on the right because 70 isn’t fast enough. Gotta love the Garden State.
Mike Shull
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I drive mine every chance that I can get.
whitey45
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I daily my 45!! Drive 5 hours to rubicon, do the whole trail and drive home!! ih8 new cars!!!
Maybe in a few more years I can change the break in oil 
. But I do drive it
. But I do drive it
As I think more about the FJ40’s coming out of the woodwork and being sold , here’s a thought. Few guys here will remember this.
1979-80 the Hunt brothers of Texas found a way to manipulate and super inflate the gold and silver markets. Silver rose towards $50.00 and ounce and gold followed. People were bringing their sterling silver ware, coffee and tea sets, gold earrings, bracelets, tie clips, and any metals commodity to these small shops opening rapidly all of the country. For every $1.00 in value that silver rose up…these guys made $100 million. They eventually lost it all
My brother and I rented an 8x10 space with a great scale and some acid to test the gold and a few hundred dollars to buy people gold and silver.
With a sandwich board that said “ We Buy Gold & Silver”. We had a line of people most days. They would bring in anything they thought had value, even broken watches that had some gold parts in them. We stockpiled shoe boxes of jewelry, silverware and anything of metals value and sold it to Englehard. They melted it into gold and silver bars and likely sold it back to manufacturers and other buyers
Land Criisers are the new silver commodity. The resurrection of these trucks is currently bringing cash… when the importers find a niche’, they’ll jump on it and bring as many as they can find to take advantage of the current emotion.
1993 "everybody” had to have a Harley… by 1994 my local dealer had a 2 year wait list. By 1996, accountants, ,lawyers and several other not really riding folks were selling some gorgeous heavily accessorized bikes for cheap and so many I saw hardly had 500 miles on them
Today…there are stores with signs. ‘We Buy Gold” but no where near like it was in 1980.
My 2 cents
1979-80 the Hunt brothers of Texas found a way to manipulate and super inflate the gold and silver markets. Silver rose towards $50.00 and ounce and gold followed. People were bringing their sterling silver ware, coffee and tea sets, gold earrings, bracelets, tie clips, and any metals commodity to these small shops opening rapidly all of the country. For every $1.00 in value that silver rose up…these guys made $100 million. They eventually lost it all
My brother and I rented an 8x10 space with a great scale and some acid to test the gold and a few hundred dollars to buy people gold and silver.
With a sandwich board that said “ We Buy Gold & Silver”. We had a line of people most days. They would bring in anything they thought had value, even broken watches that had some gold parts in them. We stockpiled shoe boxes of jewelry, silverware and anything of metals value and sold it to Englehard. They melted it into gold and silver bars and likely sold it back to manufacturers and other buyers
Land Criisers are the new silver commodity. The resurrection of these trucks is currently bringing cash… when the importers find a niche’, they’ll jump on it and bring as many as they can find to take advantage of the current emotion.
1993 "everybody” had to have a Harley… by 1994 my local dealer had a 2 year wait list. By 1996, accountants, ,lawyers and several other not really riding folks were selling some gorgeous heavily accessorized bikes for cheap and so many I saw hardly had 500 miles on them
Today…there are stores with signs. ‘We Buy Gold” but no where near like it was in 1980.
My 2 cents
Mike Shull
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I may have taken us off-track. Perhaps we need a thread for drivers.
I’m not sure that devaluating the Cruiser will make for more appearances. Mine has been parked a few times, and the first time was in 1992 when my Dad owned it and it was valued at $500. He wanted twice that and it sat for a number of years before I drug it out from under our apple tree. There needs to be some sort of incentive for folks to dust off their 40s and get them out on the road.
On another note, @whitey45, I am planning to make the “16” hour drive to the Rubicon trail next year, which I’m guessing will be more like a 25-hour drive in the Cruiser. @Firemedic831 keeps pinging me about this trip so I figure that I finally need to do it. I just need to find someone else willing to drive their Cruiser along with me.
I’m not sure that devaluating the Cruiser will make for more appearances. Mine has been parked a few times, and the first time was in 1992 when my Dad owned it and it was valued at $500. He wanted twice that and it sat for a number of years before I drug it out from under our apple tree. There needs to be some sort of incentive for folks to dust off their 40s and get them out on the road.
On another note, @whitey45, I am planning to make the “16” hour drive to the Rubicon trail next year, which I’m guessing will be more like a 25-hour drive in the Cruiser. @Firemedic831 keeps pinging me about this trip so I figure that I finally need to do it. I just need to find someone else willing to drive their Cruiser along with me.
What flares are those?
GA Architect
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I drive mine most days and put about 3K to 5K a year on it. I bought and built it to drive, and it is sitting outside my office as I type this.
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Mike Shull
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Those are custom. I made them from 1-1/2 tube and sheet metal.
pb4ugo
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You're not seeing a lot of FJ40's around because the owners are emotionally attached to them so there not for sale, and the owners are getting old. Like most of the members on this forum that say they will never sell theirs. They get parked in hopes to drive it again and that time never comes, life gets in the way. This creates the unicorn and the barn find. The younger crowd doesn't know what they are. I drove the 40 and walked in to an autoparts store, the kid behind the counter asks "Did Toyota actually make a jeep?" Another 30ish yr old guy walks past my 40 staring at the emblem on the apron trying to read it and says "nice vehicle." I'm at the Toyota dealer and the salesman says "nice car". It's been a cold spring, mine will be seen soon. As for on the trail, side by sides are so popular that you really don't see many old time offroad vehicles. The younger folks don't understand the challange and satisfaction you get when you run trails with a 2+ ton vehicle.
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Mike Shull
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Are you saying that I am getting old?
