Rust not a concern like it used to be.

Gday,
I remember going through a creek in my old HJ60 and ended up with more water in the cab than than outside.
The water sprayed straight up through all the holes in the floor! Hahahahaha

Cheers

My father owned and drove an old beach buggy that he had to tie the doors up to the roof to stop the doors from draging along the track. It was our island car and on it's final run it used 8lts of oil in 20 something kilometeres. The oil was spewing out faster than we could put it in. That 20 odd k's took about 4 or 5hrs if I remember right. Drive a couple of k's til the ol girl cooked, let it cool down, add more oil and go another couple of k's. Was that slow, my mother walked the last 8 or 9k's and we all arrived at the township together.

I learnt to drive in that car from the age of about 13.

Regards, Trevor.

My first LandCruiser was a 1976 FJ55 which was 10 years old when I bought it. I cut all the usual rust out of the roof/floor/doors and resprayed it white/brown.

Watched Malcolm Douglas last night and a guy in the Kimberley had 2 of these with nothing left of the body - now I know how it would look today :-))

I remember Annie saying to me one day that the carpet in our HQ was a bit soft, had a quick look, bit of a hole I see, ok love might put another mat in shoulf fix it (sh'i better get her another car I said to myself. But what to do with the HQ, old mate said "I will buy it off you" ok what you going to do with it, "need a trailer for that 26 foot yacht with the big keel" And I said so what you going to do with the HQ? A couple of days later I am down at the boat yard and this yacht is sitting inside the HQ, they cut a hole in the roof so the keel would sit in and dragged it out and there it sat. One yacht sitting in HQ sedan, wish I had the photos to show you all.
So yes they probably last a bit longer these days hahahahahaha.

Cheers Bruce