Land Cruisers in Print

These are mostly scans of stuff in my collection of Land Cruiser literature. Please don't swipe the pics and put them on your site. Feel free to link to this page however. :) I have higher-res scans of most of this stuff on my hard drive. Let me know if you need it. If you have any lit you'd like to sell or trade, or scans of lit you can send me, or information about the stuff I've got here, please let me know!

Morgan

Go here for cruiser scans from Japanese books and magazines.

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1959

Jim Casagrande was kind enough to share these scans with me of a brochure he recently bought. I have two Japanese brochures that are analogs of it which I've figured to be 1958 or 1959, and I figure this one is also 1958 or 1959. Jim wrote: "As best that I can tell the brochure is for the 1960 model year (the 1959 FJ25 still had the oval Toyota emblem in front.) but as you know, none of this early Toyota stuff is copyrighted or has a date on it." Morgan 7/26/02

Here are the Japanese variants of this brochure:

1960

Here is a fold-out advertising card for the FJ25. Pretty cool!

My gut feeling is that this is from 1960, but I don't know the year.

Here is a mimeographed (blue print!) price sheet for the 1960 models.

1961

1962

Here is a price sheet for 1962 models.

This is the sales flyer for the 1962 Land Cruiser.

1963

1964

Here's an article from the November, 1964 issue of Four Wheeler. It's about the 12th "Georgetown run", which seems to be the ancestor of the Jeeper's Jamboree and Rubithon. The cool thing is that the article - which is two pages long - has five photos, and the only vehicles in those five photos are Land Cruisers!

1965

year?

1966

1967?

Craig Reynolds told me he was browsing in a book store, opened a big coffee table book called The Book of Rock and came across a picture of the Beach Boys standing in front of an early red FJ40. I had to see it! I got the book and scanned the picture. Here it are two scans, one smaller and one bigger:

What's cool is that the 40 looks like it could be the twin of our 40, except that the locking hubs are different. The photographer is attributed as "The King Collection" and the agency is credited as Retna Pictures.

Todd Kaderabek figured out that the building in the background is the ruins of the old Saltair Hotel on the shore of the Great Salt Lake in Utah. Know more about the photo? Send me mail.

Mark Woytovich found two more pics on the web, from the same series. Cool! Thanks, Mark.