Love Letter to My Toyota Land Cruiser

About This Video

A love letter to the Toyota Land Cruiser: Van's 1987 FJ60 distilled into a short that captures why this particular vehicle functions as a co-star across the channel. The truck is a character because it has a biography: every dent, repair, and modification is a chapter.

Transcript

this 1987 hj60 diesel Toyota Land Cruiser is this spirited Man's family

car his main squeeze baby mama domestic partner common law wife saw a similar Land Cruiser on the show Naros and said

let's get one of those before the baby's born then she went out and got it the deal was she buys the truck he pays for

the maintenance and now after about 3 years of fixing this or that old thing they're nearly even he's put into the

truck about the same amount of money she spent buying it and yet of all the cars

he's ever owned this one is his favorite edges out the F350 Power Stroke even there's no rational way to explain his

love for this 34-year-old truck the heart wants what the heart wants maybe it's the feeling he gets when he sits in

the cockpit or wipes it down with a diaper yes yes now this is a car and

just a car no computer stuff tons of glass to look out of plenty of room room under the seats even

Products & Tools Mentioned

• 1987 Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60 essential — diesel Land Cruiser, the subject of the love letter
• Ford F350 Power Stroke mentions — diesel truck compared to the Land Cruiser

Films & Media Referenced

• TV show referenced in context of Land Cruiser aesthetic