>>>My FJ40 is 52 years old<<<
Love those. A Neighbor of my S-I-L has one and it looks brand new. They are worth a fortune.
My Brother bought one decades ago with the intention of throwing a 327 Chevy in it. That was until he got an offer he couldn’t refuse.
I bought mine in the nineties for 3 grand. I have offers every day. Easily worth 50k. Rhino lined inside and out. 2 gas tanks, 2 spare tires, chevy 350 with throttle body injection, nv4500 transmissions. I just tore it apart down to the frame last year. No rust anywhere, all new hoses, electrical system all new designed and built by me with everything needed to make the engine run isolated from everything else and virtually indestructable even it the entire rest of the power distribution system is totally destroyed. Everything isolated and fused and breakered . Front windshield goes down by simply pulling 2 latches. never sell..only coming out of my dead fingers.