Unless its a 1984 or unless it has had some upgrades or factory options (not likely), then it wont have power steering and it wont have disc brakes.
400km isnt much, but it is enough to either make you want to hate the FJ forever or it will make you want to go out and buy one - theres no in between.
Ive always wanted one and even went to Bendigo 2 years ago, cash in hand to buy a really good one with genuine low Km's (93000km documented) but i became crook as a dog whist there and i had that little energy that I could hardly lift my feet off the ground.
Took this bad boy for a drive and in the condition i was in, i couldnt do it.
I could hardly stop it (from 20km/h), i couldnt steer it without crossing onto the other side of the road each time i turned, so i had to give it a miss.
I actually had a bad feeling about the whole thing the night before - thats when i got seriously sick too.
For something Ive always wanted, for some reason i just didnt want to even go and look at it and i just wanted to leave.
However i stayed and met the guy and had a look anyway.
I checked it out, nice truck, it still didnt feel right and i was sick as i had ever been and then the owners mate asked (his mate that was selling it) if he was going to tell me the 'story' behind the FJ.
He did, he claims it was B.S anyway, (may very well have been, maybe it wasnt?) but he bought this truck about 2 years before from a guy around the Echuca area.
He had had it parked in the shed for the last 15 years - hence the low genuine Km's and the lack of rust and general wear and tear.
15 years ago, his wife and kids had taken the truck in to do the shopping (or whatever) and on the return home, after dark, they missed one of the bridges and the whole family drowned in that car in the river.
The trucked was pulled from the river and the only surviving member of the family parked it up in the shed as he couldnt bear to look at it.
After that i left, there was something about that truck that didnt feel right - even if it was B.S, i still didnt want it.
I later thought about it and came to the conclusion that if i had have driven it home, being as physically sick that i was, i probably wouldnt have made it home, either driving into an oncoming vehicle or off the side of the road.
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