Your Land Cruiser has probably the cleanest rear seat removal that I've seen. I had wanted to avoid removing mine mostly for looks, but yours doesn't look bad at all!
ETA: Just saw the ExPo review of your tool roll. Nice!
Ridge Runner-
Thanks on both counts!
But now comes the challenge.....I'm in the process of reconfiguring the RR for our new life in the mountains. In the past, the truck was used for our cross country trips, club events and running around town. Now here in Colorado I need the truck to fill three very specific areas.
Area 1: PR/Image truck for Adventure Tool Company. The truck has to have enough storage room to carry all our camping gear, supplies plus ATC inventory to club events, trade show events, delivery truck, etc. and be our vender stall during the events.
So, maintaining its appearance and reliability is important.
Area 2: Overland camping truck. My wife and I still love heading out west and spending a week of back country exploring. Heck, our new home here in Colorado is at the base of the Continental Divide so we have tons of local trails and roads to explore and the rest of our lives to do it! So, reliability, camping gear storage capability and spontaneity is important.
Area 3: Mountain Rescue Truck. I now belong to a mountain rescue group and have already been on several high mountain events and used the truck to haul gear and people to staging areas (lots of fun with no back seats!) and found I really need the back seat, secure full time storage for my callout kit and bulk storage in the back and on top. Heck, the last practice put us at 9000' during a snow storm. Due to the road being snowed over none of the rigs could get up to the staging area so we hiked 2 miles with all the gear and then an additional 2 miles to the patients with an elevation climb. Eventually snow machines were brought in to move gear and people in and out. I didn't have the RR that day, I wish I did...because my 4wd GMC truck couldn't even get up the road and eventually got stuck with several other trucks! So, reliability, durability, capability and versatility are critically important.
So, my plan is to slowly reconfigure the interior floor plan of the truck to accommodate each of these areas, understanding that it won't be perfect in any specific area. I intend on using the truck for its designed purpose, without abusing it, while caring and maintaining it and hopefully in the years to come it'll gain a wonderful hard earned retirement. I'll update as I go along.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!