Welcome to the Prairie Cruisers Website

I started this website today because I wanted to document the restoration of my 1970 Toyota FJ40 LandCruiser. I bought the LandCruiser in the Summer of 2008 and have done very little work on it since. The LandCruiser is in roadworthy shape and I use it a couple of times per week to drive to work. I know the older series LandCruisers have been the greatest off-road vehicle ever made, but I don’t have enough confidence in mine yet to trust it off-road.

Here is what it looked like when I bought it in the summer of 2008:

It had a beige color and a soft top. The thing I liked least about the Cruiser was that the previous owner had put radial road tires on it with the whitewalls facing out. It was ugly, and there was quite a bit of rust, but the engine ran great and overall it was in pretty good shape! The previous owner kept the Cruiser in Onalaska, Wisconsin.