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Land Cruiser of the Day: an overnight success, ten years in the making
I’ve had many Land Cruiser of the Day fans reach out to ask me how this website and the corresponding Pinterest page got started? I never really intended for my Blog or Pinterest account to ever reach 300K+ eyeballs each month. The Land Cruiser of the Day Blog was a simple byproduct of spending each afternoon collecting images & information about vintage Land Cruisers, then posting them accordingly. It all started around 2008 or so. I would take my 3 o’clock afternoon break each day and propagate the data & images I had collected to a simple WordPress Blog. This process’s main goal was to preserve pictures and technical data…
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1977 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser
This 1977 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser is offered out of the personal collection of an avid Land Cruiser collector. It has been completely refreshed including interior and exterior paint and all new upholstery. The truck is in impressive condition with many original FJ55-specific parts intact. The original purchaser and owner for most all it’s life was Mrs. Baird’s Bread Company who purchased it new from Bay-Long Toyota on August 2, 1977. It was used at the owners’ Texas Ranch located near Killen, TX where it served on the ranch and quick runs into town. The ~34,700 miles shown are original thanks to that limited duty. The original selling paperwork, service…
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1979 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser (The Iron Pig)
The Toyota FJ55 Land Cruiser was the first station wagon 4×4 built by the Japanese marque offering seating for up to 7 adults depending on internal configuration. The original prototype for Toyota’s first 4×4 came thanks to a Willys Jeep that the Japanese found in the Philippines during WWII. The vehicle was sent back to Japan, shortly thereafter the Japanese military commissioned Toyota to build an almost identical vehicle. In the post-WWII years this 4×4 was evolved into the FJ40 series on up to the FJ55 series, with the latter staying in production from 1967 till 1980 – when it was replaced with the less divisively designed J60 series. Toyota fitted its…
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1972 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser (full restoration)
THE PERFECT 72’ FJ55 4 DOOR WAGON The best of the best, restored & fully upgraded for daily driving by vintageoffroad This super clean FJ55 is currently for sale on eBay Premium restoration repaint finished in DuPont Chroma (lifetime) Paint in “Orion Turquoise & Cygnus White” Premium restoration upholstery finished in a Grey Tweed Wool & Carpets in Wool Berber. New 6 cylinder F motor, with performance up grades adding 25 more hp, new h55 – 5 SPEED transmission, new power steering, new 4 wheel disc brakes, new suspension This rig has only 2000 miles since restoration. None better for daily driving 70mph Highway Cruising Speeds!
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1979 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser
Here is a pretty clean 1979 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser..dig the custom paint job!…never seen one like this before…in pretty good shape for an iron pig…looks like it spent most of it’s life in the desert for sure.
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1974 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser
Another example of a very rare 1974 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser in amazing condition. Most of these poor “Iron Pigs” (as they are affectionately called) have suffered major rust damage over the years…especially on the top, drip edge and lower quarter panel areas. Ask me how I know…I have a basket case 1974 FJ55 Toyota Land Cruiser in my garage right now!
