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Awesome job!

Nice. The real deal. I use spray bomb cans. Lol

Nothing better than an 80 Series!

Nothing wrong with that, I used to do that on my beaters 🫡🙏🏼

My dream build, been waiting 15 years for this project 🙏🏼🫡

Thanks mate!

Thank you! 🙏 🫂 💜

Thrilled for you! I bought a ‘97 this year and have it at Land Cruiser Heaven getting a turbo-diesel and manual conversion. Also my dream car, and it will have zero computers

🙏🏼🫡 awesome choice! Which motor?! Mine is a ‘96… I have the original 1HDT manual completely rebuilt (first rebuild for the motor)… they’re legendary 💪🏼 post pics of the build I’ll follow!

looking good

Thanks mate! 🙏🏼🫡

Also a 1-HD! It’s currently on the water coming from Australia, and was also fully rebuilt. Are you doing all the work yourself? Once the work starts, I’ll definitely post. It’s getting prep work done at Land Cruiser Heaven, currently.

Awesome 😎 the best 💪🏼 you’re going to love it 💪🏼 I’m down in Paraguay 🇵🇾 it’s a challenging place to do this kind of a complete restoration to say the least… I’m new to the country so no home/garage to use, but I’ve met some great people and found a solid mechanic shop that knows the 80 well to do the major mechanical work for me while I do as much as I can and use specialty guys for the different pieces of the puzzle… iron fabrication, custom steel pieces, interior restoration, etc… down here it’s all individual guys who have their little niche thing they do and the garage has been helping me to find those guys and restore or rebuild every major system… we are finally finished with all mechanical (mostly) and body work so we are in final stages of paint before we go for the custom rear & front bumpers, guard side-rails and then I’ll build the camping system for long term travel out and hopefully hitting the road in Dec to surf & kitesurf all of South America for the next couple years. What’s your plan for once you get your build?!

I really admire the effort and dedication. It will be worth it! The one I bought was in solid shape but wasn’t a daily, so it had a lot of various problems when I got it. Exterior looks great, but engine was showing its age at 225k miles. So I figured, might as well bite bullet and make it my dream car. I’m also putting a 32 gallon tank on it and a bunch of other fun things. Here’s a link - https://bringatrailer.com/listing/1997-toyota-land-cruiser-fzj80-179/?utm_source=Iterable&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=campaign_6066658#comments-anchor

Congrats 🍾 she looks super clean 🧼 great find! Keep us updated on the build progress would love to see how it turns out 🫱🏼‍🫲🏻

Sweet

Definitely a sweet ride

Beautiful 🫠

🫠🎯☺️