Colorado Land Cruisers is a four-wheel drive club based out of Colorado Springs, Colorado, and sanctioned by Toyota Land Cruisers Association. We are organized to bring together Toyota owning families and individuals interested in exploring Colorado four-wheel drive trails.
Trip Report: Carnage 4/27/03
We had a great run with 8 vehicles from CLC. The trail has changed some. More obstacles and some have become more challenging. Other than Andy losing the airlines on his lockers and shortage of brake fluid, there weren't any other mechanical failures in our group. We helped out another Toyota with parts and a welder. We had a few new battle scars. Before noon I had already pushed in my front fender to the point of not being able to open my door. My back and shin were sore from climbing in and out of the window for the rest of the day. So, the tilt wheel became a nice trail accessory after that. Toward the end of the day, Mike Taylor rendered some assistance with a 4 way to allow the door to open again. Mike Stevens had a good time in his almost stock 4 Runner. He consumed many miles off the clutch, lost the end cap to one of his bumpers, and adjusted the shape of the other. Chuck and Charlie were both there in the Yellow mini and it preformed well as usual. Charlie and Mike Taylor were kind enough to provide most of the spotting. Vic and Gary Clark were in Vic's 40 and managed to avoid the trees. Paul did a fine job leading. While he usually doesn't get stuck, this trip he did provide me an opportunity to use my high lift jack after he got high centered. John and his Yokohama's made it strap free open diffs, although it was close at one point. We came across some vehicles that weren't prepared for the trail up at the squeeze. One was a Jeep on its side. The youngster had only owned it for two days. City tires no lift, and now one less window. Come to find out this is the third vehicle he has rolled. Maybe he should come up with a different recreation. The stock full size Chevy pick up with low hanging nerf bars decided it was time for both of them to turn around after the incident with his buddy's Jeep. It was a longer day than usual for Carnage, but I think it was mostly due to the amount of fun we had on some of the optional obstacles early in the trail, and some waiting on others. I think everyone had a good day even though most of us were a little tired by the end. David
Why is there no
FJ50? From Rod Timby
The reason is
because the final numeral digit in the Land cruiser designation denotes frame
length. Usually 0 for short, 3 for middle and 5 for long wheelbase. A short
wheel model was never mass-produced, hence there being no 50 series. Only the
long wheelbase 5 was ever mass-produced, therefore all models are called the
55. If it came equipped with an F petrol engine, it was called the FJ55. Diesel
engine models (if any existed) would have been called the BJ55. Later models,
such as the 60, 80, 90 and 100 series, would drop the short, long frame
designation, since all models were of the same frame length. Only the multiple
variant 70 series would retain the frame denotation in the numeral designation.
(Rod said he
got this from a pig web site, but didn’t include the site URL.)
Liberty Toyota North – 7:30pm
CLC has a few hats with logo, as well as stickers. Hats are going for $13 and stickers are $4. See David and he will fix you up!
CLC
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