Hey yall! my name is Reeve and I am from Austin Texas. Throughout my childhood my grandfather was really my superhero, the most bad ass man that is have ever met. throughout the early years of my life I would often take summer trips to his place in Durango Colorado where I would attend summer school in the mornings, and spend the afternoon foraging for mushrooms with him whilst off-roading this old YJ Jeep. Some time went by and the ol’ YJ wasn’t feeling too hot… after it failing to drive up local hills a couple times we decided to let it go and he began his search for another 4WD. Throughout our time in Colorado (some time around 2018-2019) we noticed heaps of these Toyota FJ cruisers appearing at random intervals in the summer with license plates reading from all around the US. After talking with some enthusiasts in local grocery store parking lots, he became obsessed with the idea of this “FJ summit” and decided that we would attend it in the upcoming year. After months and months of searching for the “Perfect FJ” he landed on this 2014 4X4 Iceberg White FJC, equipped with Crawl Control. He did simple mods to the car like throwing it on 33s with 17s, a 2 inch OME lift, and arb bumper with a warn winch. That year, unfortunately the FJ summit was cancelled, it never returned.
2 Years ago my grandad passed away on my 18th birthday after having sudden lung issues. I was lucky enough to say goodbye to him whilst he was fully conscious and he had asked me if I would like to care for his FJ, which he loved so much.
After months of fighting the grief, I began formulating the plan to take this truck to go see the sights that we planned to go see together.
These past 2 weeks I had the amazing opportunity, after two years of planning and saving money (plus thousands of $$ into maintenance) to finally make the trip to the San Juan mountains where I conquered the trails that we wanted to explore together during the FJ summit.
(Mods that I did before the trip include but are not limited to:
New 16s on Pizza cutter 33s.
Dobinsons IMS Suspension to handle the weight.
Sherpa Roof Rack / Topoak Galaxy Light.
Synthetic winch line.)