From the shop floor
Stories, opinions, project insights, and Land Cruiser knowledge from Jeremiah Proffitt and the PRLC team.
Have you ever caught yourself thinking, “If I knew then what I know now…”? That one hits me pretty often after 28 years in this business. I started Proffitt’s Resurrection Land Cruisers as a side hobby back in about 1999…
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If you are in the market for a Restored Toyota Land Cruiser (buying one, not building one), it’s getting very difficult to navigate all of the options. With inventory being spread out across the country, it’s not usually…
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Meet CARen. CARen has never built a car — but he’s commented on all of them. Every corner of car culture has one. Restoration, hot rods, overlanding, track cars, EV swaps, concours builds, backyard projects — it doesn’t …
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Why Would Anyone Want To Do This? I find myself talking to clients about this all the time—usually after they call me out of desperation because of an experience they’re having, or already had, with another shop. Broken …
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“I don’t get it, it’s just installing a couple of axles!” An exasperated Land Cruiser owner’s quote to me from a couple of days ago. A very long story short…this prospective client had explored having us perform an 80 se…
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“AI” certainly isn’t very “I” when it comes to Land Cruisers. Read on for proof. At this point it seems like most of us are either casual users of AI services like ChatGPT and Grok, or are full-on addicted to them. I wou…
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Parts…Why We Offer Used Land Cruiser Parts (Even Though It’s a Pain) At Proffitt’s Resurrection Land Cruisers, we’ve spent decades restoring Toyota Land Cruisers—hundreds of them, from barn-find 40 Series to daily driver…
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For those of you who follow us, you have seen quite a few 60 series Land Cruiser resto-mods built on 80 series Land Cruiser chassis come out of the shop in the last couple of years. They are no doubt popular, but why? An…
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Hi everyone. I realize the newsletter has been absent for a couple of months. This has been a busy spring! Of course there is always the standard frenzy related to getting ready for Cruise Moab and other spring events, b…
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A few days ago, I got an email from a publication in Wyoming about a rare sighting on I 80. Someone had spotted two 79 series Land Cruiser trucks on a semi trailer and posted about it on social media. The resulting frenz…
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