YOUR TURN BEFORE & AFTER 1965 TOYOTA LAND CRUISER FJ45
PRICE RANGE: $12,800 - $39,500
Stefan Lombard
Sometimes the support of friends and family makes all the difference when bringing a car back from the dead
Bob Bascom of Warrenton, Virginia, has been off-roading Toyota Land Cruisers with his two sons for years. His wife Lylia showed little interest, until the day she went with him and surprised him by taking the wheel. On the way home she announced that she wanted a Cruiser of her own, and the search was on. Bob bought a rare 1965 FJ45 from a friend and spent three years making the truck right: removing the lift, adding a Warn winch, welding in new steel and stripping “I don’t know how many layers of paint, includ- ing some latex.” The result is Lylia’s own FJ45 in factory Mustard, which she drives regularly, happily chauffeuring friends to their “Ladies Club” meetings.
1986 DODGE DAYTONA TURBO Z C/S
PRICE RANGE: $3,400 - $9,100
Bob O’Neill of Tallahassee, Florida, owns a fantastic 1986 Dodge Daytona Turbo Z C/S — a genuine turbo- charged Shelby. Eighties Daytonas don’t tend to be “fantastic” anymore, but Bob made it so, with help from his friends on the forums at
Allpar.com. One of them even found the car and stored it for him in Vir- ginia until he could get up there with $500 to pick it up. “From there, the fun began,” Bob says. He wanted a show car he could drive, and he started with disassem- bly, rebuilt the rusty 2.2-liter turbocharged four, did the body and paint in a friend’s garage and then installed a fresh interior. With just a few short “feeling out” trips on
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the clock, Bob changed the oil and packed the Daytona for the Chrysler Nationals, a thousand miles up the road in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. “The car ran flawlessly,” Bob says. “The power was amazing.” The Daytona averaged 34.5 mpg on the roundtrip. Not bad for a car that ad- vertised 28 mpg nearly 30 years ago. “Now I have both my show car and my driver,” Bob says. “Both are 1986 Dodge Daytona.”
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