My Ariel Atom owning/selling friend sent me this picture. He saw this weirdness on his way to work this morning, somewhere on Route 93, north of Boston. What the hell is it?
Is it an new Toyota chassis with an old body on it? And if so, what they hell were they thinking with those taillights?
Truck Thursday: What the hell kind of a Land Cruiser is this?
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This is the four door version of the FJ40 that was not sold in america. You also did not get the one ton FJ40 pickup, but we did in Canada 🙂 Back in the day I had a one ton pickup and later the short wheel base hard top. The one ton pickup had really bad all drum brakes, that even after an over night dew was almost impossible to keep off the side walk until they dried out. That pickup was incredible, it looked like it would go anywhere, and almost would. The mechanic at the dealer use to call me Rommel of the Africa Corps. lol I traded it on a disc brake equipt hard top, that I drove for seven years ( rust free ) and sold for $2000 less than I paid for it.
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That almost looks like it's JK-Wrangler Unlimited based, by the wheels and overall proportion.
The tail lights, mirrors and door handles look too new to be original to any older FJ40-era car. -
I agree that the body is mostly from an FJ45 (or whatever that last digit should be). I have no idea what vehicle those grafted tail lamps were from.
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4runner with a very questionable body kit.
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Bring A Trailer has an article on one, they even comment that the tail lights are extremely hard to come by, which would explain the grafted on modern jobbies.
1967 FJ45LV
http://bringatrailer.com/2010/11/14/rarely-restor…
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But why the modern tailgate, too?
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People say the same about Kim Kardashian. Heyo!
Probably just easier to take the whole rear off something and graft it on than piece and part it.
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Toyota Bandeirante BJ55LP-2BL. Made in Brasil !!!
It had a Mercedes OM314 Diesel engine. Even those wheels were factory standard.
There were various cabins and truck beds available. Production ended in 1999.
(Sorry but I cannot post pics here, somehow it doesn`t work).-
Courtesy (and curiosity driven search) embed.
<img src="http://tlc4x4.com/uploads/trucks/1967_FJ45LV_f34.jpg" width="600">
With some sort of Prado model taillights? -
But those tail lights … did Toyota really do that in the '90s?
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wrangler 4door with a body kit.
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The taillights are from a fourth-generation (N180) (2003-2009) 4Runner.
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