The Toyota Land Cruiser has been around since the Sengoku Period (OK, since 1951), and all varieties of this truck tend to have plenty of obsessively devoted single-interest fanatics here in Colorado.
(OK, since 1951), and all varieties of this truck tend to have plenty of obsessively devoted single-interest fanatics here in Colorado. You’ll see the occasional FJ60Land Cruiser in junkyards here, and I’ve even seen a well-stripped FJ40in a Denver yard. Today’s well-thrashed Junkyard Findis the first example of an FJ55 Land CruiserI’ve found.
Is there rust? Yes, there is rust. Is there body filler over rust? Definitely.
Look, air conditioning! This would have been fairly luxurious by 1974 truck standards.
Front drum brakes could still be found on a few Detroit cars, and the Land Cruiser, in 1974.
Toyota did a lot of license-building of GM technology in the postwar era; the GM-developed PowerGlide was the basis of the Toyoglide automatic transmission, and the F engine used in this truck was a cousin of the good old Chevrolet straight-six OHV engine.
It was rough when it showed up in this yard, and many parts-hungry Land Cruiser owners have picked it over since then.