I just came across these updated Toyota Land Cruisers from Los Angeles-based designers ICON. Since they are my favorite cars, I just about lost it when I saw how carefully constructed Jonathan Ward’s versions are. I love all of the little details. If I had a hundred thousand dollars just sitting around, I would definitely pick one up. Enjoy the photos courtesy of the ICON website and brochures.
So, with all the furniture building, typewriter and table saw restoring, teardrop trailer blueprinting, etc., we have been doing, I have been thinking more and more about how fun it would be to restore an old car. To be completely honest, I have never been “handy” so to speak, especially when it came to automobiles. But, I have to say that after doing some very real mechanical work, [i.e. taking some things apart, cleaning and repairing them, and then putting them back together], it is really much simpler, and much more fun, than I previously imagined. This brings me to my current object of future car restoration desire: the 1970’s Toyota FJ40 Landcruiser.
If there was ever a car to covet, it would be this one (especially in the original vintage red color). I have always noticed these “little 4×4’s that could” out of the corner of my eye, probably because of their signature white fiberglass roof and safari-esque style. I just go crazy for all the little details (the gas can holders on the back, the barn-style rear doors, and the fog lights that just seem to say “meep meep!“) I just keep thinking how fun it would be to hitch up our future teardrop to one of these and head up Highway 1. Vroom.
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