Former 1972 Toyota FJ40 Land Cruiser for Sale
There’s about as much FJ40 left in this rig as there is F-150 in Bigfoot — but it looks like a proper beast.
Quite honestly, this 1972 FJ40 looks more like a UTV on steroids than anything that left a Toyota factory, but I still think it’s kind of cool. According to the listing over on Gateway Classic Cars, it was used in victory celebrations for both the 2015 Kansas City Royals and 2020 Kansas City Chiefs, though there’s little information about its history beyond that.
Given the giant trailer big enough to carry an entire major league franchise, my guess is it was built specifically for a team. What’s perfectly clear is that this hyper-modified rig should be an absolute unit off road. Under the hood, the stock Toyota mill has been swapped for — drumroll, please — the General’s venerable LS1 engine, which is mated to a T400 automatic transmission. Rounding out the drivetrain is a pair of Dana 60 Axles, ARB air locking diffs, 4:56 gears, and King off-road racing shocks.
Now, that sounds like some pretty serious hardware to handle to parade duty, but maybe the roads in the City of Fountains are rougher than I thought.
Given that it’s rolling on Raceline 17-inch beadlock wheels wrapped in 49-inch Interco Super Swamper IROK Tires, the extra poke from the LS is probably necessary to ensure it can move under its own power. As you’d expect, the fully caged cockpit is almost all business, though along with the racing seats and aftermarket gauges, there’s a basic stereo and set of speakers mounted in the footwells.
The price is currently listed at $124,000, which isn’t cheap by any means. But even if you discount the value of the trailer entirely, after years of attending SEMA and inspecting the wild rides there, I’d bet that number isn’t much higher than what it cost to build this baby together. All the off-road kit seems to be top-notch, to say nothing for the labor and custom fab work involved in screwing it all together.
But what do you think? How close to the asking price did you think this build cost to assemble? And do you think it’s ever been off-road? I’d bet that’s a big, fat, hairy no, but I’d honestly love to be proven wrong. A basic search for video of it in action didn’t turn up any bite-size chunks of it moving, though if you happen to find some, or actually saw it in action in Kansas City, I’d love to hear about it!
Photos: Gateway Classic Cars
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