Ever since we started dating in 1995, my wife has had to deal with my Land Cruiser obsession. From helping me rebuild the brakes to spending hours grinding down the paint on the trailer, sweating on an Arizona trail or just sitting there quietly while I jabber about Cruisers with fellow lunatics, my wife has been a real trooper! But about an hour ago, she was walking by the computer as I played a recording of a vintage Land Cruiser commercial a friend sent me. She turned to look at me with that look she gets when I've crossed the line (like when I suggested getting her an "engagement cruiser" instead of the more traditional ring, or when she vetoed my honeymoon plans for Australia, fully aware of the abundance of LC's down under and how weak I am), but when she saw the grin on my face, she just smiled back at me, shaking her head. God, I love this woman!!

Here's to those patient women who put up with our crap, stick by us, and keep us sane! :angel:

I know how you feel,i have been married for 22 years and have had this land cruiser addiction for all my married life. With more than 100 cruisers to come and go she is still around. What a find.

I found a really nice 82 FJ-40 the day before my baby was born and told my wife about it.

She said "Get it Honey, that will show all those people out there that NOTHING is going to change around here when Berkley is born"

Cool thing was, she was serious!

When she was in labor, I had a call on my cell phone and it was the seller of the Cruiser trying to get me to buy it....my wife looked up between contractions and said "Berkley needs a Cruiser!"

Damn fine woman!

So, did you get the cruiser? kate is the only one in your Sig. the suspence is killer. Matt

i've been with my now wife since 95 also and she's been really cool about my affliction. enough so that i just got her an fj60 about 6 months ago. no complaints here!;)

opposite end of the spectrum...i've got my sig other (man) trained to spot cruisers and he even tells me about them which means he must love me because he knows he'll be helping me rebuild them. he even suggested we acid dip the 45 instead of blasting...hmmm, now all i have to do is get him to pay for my toys...

I guess the old saying is right, "You don't know what you have till it's gone." I let the best girl I've ever had in my life go because of the Cruiser. We were together for 5 years and she too learned to fall in love with the great beasts. She was on every trail ride, not because I asked her to go but because she truly enjoyed it. She kept asking for a ring after about 2 years and I kept saying, "The Cruiser ain't done yet babe......" She even started buying parts for the truck just to help finish a never ending project. (You know that a Cruiser is never really done) She finally put her foot down after 5 years and told me to make a choice. Well, me and my Cruiser are still together happy as could be. She on the other hand is married and has 2 kids now. I still hear from her from time to time, to tell me about a parts rig she saw for sale or a new Cruiser in the area. I kick myself in the ass every day for letting her go. I'm not saying that I should have sold the Cruiser, I just should have put my priorities in the right order.

Oh well, live and learn.........:rolleyes:

Originally posted by wngrog
I found a really nice 82 FJ-40 the day before my baby was born and told my wife about it.

She said "Get it Honey, that will show all those people out there that NOTHING is going to change around here when Berkley is born"

Cool thing was, she was serious!

When she was in labor, I had a call on my cell phone and it was the seller of the Cruiser trying to get me to buy it....my wife looked up between contractions and said "Berkley needs a Cruiser!"

Damn fine woman!

I've got a similar one......
My wife called me this monday on my lunch brake saying "it's time". So I leave work and pick her up, she's in early labor. Anyways, I'm cruising down the highway (in my 60) and a good looking stock 40 is cruising the other way down the highway. As I'm gawking at it & telling her how I'm going to get one some day, I MISS THE HOSPITAL EXIT!
Not just a little bit. I'm was still checking out the 40 in the rear view mirror for about 1/4 mile before I realized what I did....
We had a pretty good laugh over that one.

Nick

Henry,
You are so right, I just wish mine would read this so she would see we don't just talk about Cruisers here. Finders keepers guys, I have a real prize!

She went to the local Toyota dealership 2 years ago while I was out wheeling, educated the sales droids on Cruisers. Demanded to drive a new 2000 UZJ100, complained because no diff locks were available. Called me on my cell phone and asked if I liked green or maroon better, no other info. When I got home she insisted we go for a ride, to the dealership, I was shocked. Left her sweet ( 1 year old) black Avalon there and escaped with the Maroon Cruiser. She doesn't even regret her share of the payment!

Between her and my daughters they have spotted all the early Cruisers that run in Indy! I'm waiting for the call that she has found a pig and I'd better get my butt over there and get it before it's gone. She doesn't even refer to my shop and storage area out back as the Clampetts, any more.

Sorry, I got carried away. I 'm sure she knows that big carat rock she got for Christmas could have been a truckload of Cruiser goodies! Life is good.

Mike "SpaceGhost" Smythe

Sharing the sickness:D My wife and I will be welcoming our first baby in April and being the good father I am I have found a 78 FJ40 with 60k miles I plan to buy prior to his arrival.

I talked to the baby yesterday and told him his new cruiser was white and I asked if that was O.K. (as I rubbed the wife's belly) I don't think she'll be too suprised when she comes home and the new 40 is sitting in the driveway:D

Thanks for the great stories gang.

OK, one more....

We play a modified version of "slug bug"....

If she can name the spot and name the model of any Land Cruiser she sees the road or television she gets a "credit" toward not getting whacked when I see a Volkswagon van or bug(old style).

It will go like this "Credit, FJ-55"

Or I will say "Credit Block...FJ-80"

Silly, but it maker her competitive at spotting Cruisers....my wife and I compete against each other at work...she never backs down and can spot Cruisers better than I can!


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My wife has been awsome about supporting anything that I want to get for the landcruiser. Every time that the cruiser gets me down she tells me how much she loves the thing and to keep on working it. I definitely could not deal witht this "sickness" without my wife. my hats off to all of the ladies who support us!!!!!!!!



:beer: :usa:

I have been married to my wife, Fran, since 1973. She has supported all my obsessions through all these years, including sailboat racing, my 300ZX, bicycles, hunting, flyfishing in Colorado, guns and archery, 2 heeps, and now cruisers. Can't say enough.

My wife of 26 years has been wonderful as well -- especially when she gently reminds me that there is a very fine line between my hobby/obsession and MENTAL ILLNESS :smokin:

well if it was just land cruiser, i would be fine but i have about 20 4x4s right now from a 2 1/2 ton 10 wheel drive kiaser to samurias. i have 4 cruisers at the house now and i need to go pick up a fj55 next week. i was bad into the bikes for years but i am down to 3 so thats good for me. i still love good guns but i try top keep less than 25 but i find they are a lot easier to hide than a new rig. i am just a sick compulsive person, what can i say. except that with all the liberal programs our goverment has, you think they would send us some money back to help with our sickness. hell the give druggies money for dope. why not us? i have been married for 12 years and my wife has got pissed at times but she loves wheeling and camping, so i got a good one. the main problem is that i don't have enough time to enjoy the toys i own. i didn't even get either of my boats out last year. mike

Mine is a daily struggle to keep the obsession in check; for one, I don't know many Cruiserheads in my level of obsession that only have *one* Land Cruiser, but I've managed to pull it off, resisting the urge to buy another one before the big ticket items on this one are done. So far, so good, except that I keep finding big ticket items I *need*! :p

Kate didn't know *anything* about Land Cruisers when we met but she's learned a LOT, enough to put some Cruiser owners to shame. Every once in a while she'll come home from work and tell me "I spotted an FJ40 today on Route 28. It was a 75 or newer, looked like stock Mustard Yellow, with a mild lift"...it's a great feeling! :)

Funny Cruiser moments in our years of marriage? When she was opening our wedding presents she opened a box and exclaimed "what the hell is this?"...it was a used 60 series rear heater that a buddy of mine had given me and wrapped as a wedding present as a joke..Kate didn't think it was so funny. Another time she came home from work in Arizona and asked me about the other TWO Land Cruisers parked in our spots. Turns out I was holding them for two friends who bought them in AZ sight unseen and were having them shipped, and somehow I'd forgotten to tell her...you could see the relief plainly on her face. But when she bought me a Safari Snorkel for graduation or didn't balk at the cost of the spring-over conversion, I knew things were going to be all right...

This year I'm going to buy "her" an FZJ80 so I can take over her TDI Jetta and then I can really go medieval on the Land Cruiser...! :)

Henry -

I think my PBB (and other places) name says it all:


My wife is a little less supportive. I just bought a spare CB, and she freaked. I told her it was for the 80, and she said: 'No more crap in the truck!'

Oh well...

guess I better get my 40 back on the road..:rolleyes:

Jim

I bought a 60 for a daily driver (which I misunderstood to be MY daily driver....WRONG!).

That is hers, not mine.

So I bought a 55, which is starting to take shape...and now she wants to drive on the trail once the baby is here....


*sigh*

I love her!

my wife had no knowledge of 4x4's when we meet 5 years ago and when he first saw the pig in pieces mind you,see said"you have a jeep" and i calmy explained to her about cruisers and now she knows the basics like mines a 40 her boss drives a new 100 and the guy down the street has a sixty. well now she wants an suv an expedition to be exact. and i tell her that there are some nice fj80's and she preceeds to tell me there old hell it's a late 90's hell mines a 70. so any way she insists and insists that she won't drive one. so a month goes by and we are taking my daughter to school and on the way we pass a cruiser with the arb bull bars up front 33" tires small lift green in color rear windows tinted sharp looking landcruiser. well she says i like that. well guess what it's an fj80.:D

You guys have it good. I call my wife the "Nag-Fu" (female Kung Fu based on nagging) "fun police".

She hates the Cruiser. Actually, she "F ing hates it"

Wants to know why I can't be a "normal person" and live in a "normal neighborhood" and drive a "normal car".

Hmm, I don't drink, smoke, watch sports, go to bars, play pool, gamble, or anything else. All I do is work on my truck when I am not working on the house, and she is hot happy. The only upside is that tolerates my overall wrenching, welding, fabricating and garage oriented hobbies, but man, she hates the Cruiser. So far, I've had like 13 of them and she has kicked me out yet, but sometimes I wonder...

I got to go, the whip is cracking and I can hear sirens.

Stumbaugh

Oh man, you guys have made me feel so good, I think I will leave work early, go home and spend the evening being sensitive and attentive to her. I won't even start any LC projects this weekend. I think I will volunteer to go shopping with her tomorrow.:flipoff2: :flipoff2:

Yeah right. Guess again.

aren't there any more women who can talk about how wonderfully tolerant their men are about their cruisers???

we have punch buggy (old volksie)
slap wagon (combie van)
pinch mini (mini)
kick coppa (cop car)
punch in the head volvo (volvos)

see it started with punch buggies, but its getting quite out of hand now, and i like the idea of creditFJ55 or credit FJ40, but we have so many cruisers, we'd prolly end up having too many credits, still its something to add in, i like it!!

all the girlfriends ive had have like my "jeep" and i feel like showing them the badge on the front, or inside on the dash, and say its a toyota, but its hopeless trying to explain it!! oh well, except one chic, who didnt like fourbys at all, and didnt like anything that wasnt a holden, oh well,

see if i care, its me and my shorty :flipoff2: :rasta:
BAHAHAHAHAHA

I've been working on my 72 FJ40 since 96 . It went from bone stock to 400HP TPI350,TH400,D60,D44,SOA,PWRST,ARB's and lots more. Since I've owned my cruiser. I've had 3daughters & been with my since 94. Realy the only thing that keeps me sain is my obsession for my LC and she knows it. My wife and girls love wheeling as much as possible. But she can still ask when will it ever be finished. I will replye hopfully never.
She just left to NewYork for two weeks on bussiness, I agreed to watch the kids but Im buying a new 12000lb winch she said ok.

What do you think is it worth it? :bounce: :bounce2: :bounce:

Yep, they’re great!

Our oldest boy is 15 years old and about to start driving on the road. (He drives the FJ55 off-road whenever he wants.) Anyway, a couple weeks ago out of the blue my wife said to me, ‘You better buy another cruiser unless you want him to drive your 55 all the time.’ Music to my ears! Now I wonder how many quarters, dimes and nickels are in my sock drawer …

Those of us with CruiserChicks/CruiserWife's definitely have much to be thankfull for.

My wife humored and helped me scrape together the funds and roadtrip to buy my current FJ60/FJ55/FJ40 and BJ70, tolerates non-stop LC obsession talk, web browsing, Land Cruiser models in her nice lighted China cabinet, framed LC ads througout the house, not being able to put her car in the garage during the winter, planning all our vacations around off-road trips, etc...

Here's a toast to em' :beer: :beer:

:)

Great stories! It is good to see that most peoples wives are actually into the sickness or at the least tolerant. It seems all to often that most guys are bitching about their others not being happy with all the wrenching & parts buying etc.
It definately helps your cause if you make it a family affair, and you dont make it a 24/7 thing. I just recently started letting my four year old help me work on my truck (had to get him some junior safety glasses, and some ears!) he really doesnt help much -mostly wants to hit the truck with a BFH but it gives my wife alittle free time , and I get to work on the truck.
My obsession is more with my business , and wow my wife has been amazing -talk about time consuming.
weldpro