After various visits to various garages in and around Tokyo looking at various cars, we eventually found ‘the one’. In our case this was a ’89 Toyota Land Cruiser FJ62G.
What with Japan being the home of the Land Cruiser you’re pretty much spoilt for choice for quality specimens. That said, it did take us a few visits to various shops to find the ‘near’ perfect car for us. I say ‘near’ as our 60 has an automatic transmission when we would’ve preferred manual.
In the end we bought the car from Utilitas (http://www.utilitas.co.jp) who are a small shop based in west Tokyo that specialise in all flavours of Land Cruiser and Nissan Skylines. The guys that work there are super-nice and will be a very helpful resource when we need to start accumulating spare parts and whatnot to take with us.
Here we are putting on our best poker face during the price negotiations:
