FJ40 Page

Land Cruiser FJ40

This page contains information or tips about the 1972 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ40.

The journey began in May 2010 when I purchased a 1972 Land Cruiser FJ40 from the prior owner in Jacksonville, Florida. A friend trailered it back to my home in Lake Butler and helped me do a few basics to make it better. I thought I had forgotten how to drive a manual after a few decades but apparently something in the transmission needed fixing so the initial jerky backups and starts weren’t all my fault.

I finally sent it in for a full restoration (within reason) to Amazonia 4x4 as the pandemic started and it was returned to me a couple of years later in 2024 looking all shiny and new… and running more smoothly… and it had air condition … and to missing radio replaced with something much better!

BEFORE 2010 AFTER 2024

I’m not much of a gear head & can’t weld, so I’m limited to doing small scale projects with my FJ40. I’m good with simple electronics, but much more capable in the wash/wax department.

Though not a Car Show type, some of my friends are and they made it rather clear that I was to bring my FJ40 to the 4th of July Car Show. So now I’m working up stuff for that. I thought a replica Window Sticker would be a nice addition, so I made one. As luck would have it, another CruiserHead about an hour away still had his sticker for an FJ purchased just a couple months after mine, also from Westside Toyota. So mine is modeled after what he had. If you would like to use it, feel free to do so by downloading the file(s) by clicking on the buttons below (fonts used are Cooper Std Black, Gill Sans Regular & Bold, and Linefeed Regular).

Toyota’s advertisement from 1971. I thought it looked better with my car in it. If you want to put your car in it, use on of the links below.

(fonts are Century Regular and Limerick Extra Bold Regular)