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Toyota

A Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing

April 21, 2010

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Spring is Coming: Back to Work

February 14, 2010

Temperatures finally rose high enough today to encourage me to tackle some outstanding jobs on the cars. Number one emergency was the Land Cruiser, which has had sticky starter syndrome for a few weeks now – right when it was needed to be at its most reliable! What happens is the starter stays engaged after [...]

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Bye Bye Little Land Cruiser

January 4, 2010

My reassembled Toyota LJ70 Land Cruiser left the building today. I was sad to see it go, but pleased that it is at least off to do something interesting with the new owner, not just some dreary school run or soggy dog transport! I think I undersold it as I had not mentioned spare keys, [...]

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Headline Deadline

July 26, 2009

Following a ‘successful’ day on the little Landcruiser LJ70 yesterday (i.e. got some jobs done and didn’t kill myself), I had another day at work on it today. Top of the list was the saggy headliner.

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Little Landcruiser gets some TLC

July 25, 2009

Hard to believe the little Landcruser (LJ70) has been off the road since June 2006. Took me a few months (28 is a few on my calendar) to convince best mate Rob at Raceresto.com to make me some new sills for it and weld up the arches (repair panels are not available for these), and [...]

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More Landcruiser fun

June 10, 2009

I travelled to the May IB Midlands meet in the Landcruiser, as the kids were off to Eire with Mum, so needed a lift to the airport, and Tea Boy had picked up some drains for me that I had won on eBay, so I needed space to bring them home. The meet was a [...]

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