Toyota Stalking, er...um, SPOTTING with Charlie™ (Land Cruiser, FJC, and Lexus LX/GX Edition)!

2010 FJC


June 4th, 2023:

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

 

2017 J200


June 4th, 2023:

Bethlehem, Pennsylvania

 

2006 Lexus GX470; I believe that this one belongs to an employee of Raceway Park as I think I've seen it here before, and such I may have already taken pictures of it, but I just realized this time that this is a fairly uncommon "base" GX470. When I say "base", I mean that it lacks the factory navigation system and thus does not have a backup camera. In about 2007 my old neighbor inherited a 2003-2004 GX470 virtually identical to this one when her father died (and it was paid off, so she immediately got the title), and the last time I saw her, she still had it with well past 200K miles on the clock; I am 99% sure that hers has the GPS/backup camera package, in 2003! I talked to the owner of a lifted 2006 GX at a cruise night a couple years ago, and he told me that most people opted for the backup camera, and as such the majority of GXs that I've seen have that feature; I would prefer to have factory backup camera, obviously, but it would also be nice to get one of these with the basic factory stereo system so I could install my own killer system (and with it, a backup camera)...


June 11th, 2023:

Englishtown, New Jersey

 

June 17th, 2023:

Macungie, Pennsylvania

 

Clean '07 FJ Cruiser!


June 18th, 2023:

Springtown, Pennsylvania

 

1974 FJ40!


June 18th, 2023:

Springtown, Pennsylvania

 

2006 Lexus GX470 with 219K miles!


June 18th, 2023:

Pipersville, Pennsylvania

 

1977 FJ40


June 21st, 2023:

Hatboro, Pennsylvania

 

2000 J100


June 22nd, 2023:

Warminster, Pennsylvania

 

2008 FJ Cruiser


June 25th, 2023:

Exton, Pennsylvania

 

Another JDM Cruiser, with 3 pedals, at Selden Motors!


June 26th, 2023:

Warrington, Pennsylvania

 

The white FJ60 that has been there for over a year has been relocated to another part of the property (seen to the right of this black one), and unfortunately somebody smashed the driver's side window...

 

The newest GX that I've ever seen with a lift kit and off-road wheels; 2022 Lexus GX460!


July 1st, 2023:

Warrington, Pennsylvania

 

2017 Lexus GX460


July 1st, 2023:

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

 

2010 FJ Cruiser


July 1st, 2023:

Doylestown, Pennsylvania

 

2007 FJ Cruiser


July 1st, 2023:

Pottstown, Pennsylvania

 

2010 FJ Cruiser


July 2nd, 2023:

Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania

 

2008 FJ Cruiser


July 7th, 2023:

Warrington, Pennsylvania

 

July 8th, 2023:

Fort Washington, Pennsylvania

 

2005 Lexus GX470


July 15th, 2023:

Bristol, Pennsylvania

 

I started taking pictures of this rig from all angles and was confronted by the owner of the silver Chevy Silverado 1500 parked to the left. The owner of the Chevy obviously doesn't have very good eyesight and thought I was taking pictures of his license plate...

The guy was fishing off of the pier, and I had actually talked to him when I parked to see if I was allowed to park where I parked, before he started fishing. He moved his truck from the original space near my truck and parked next to the Lexus, and rather aggressively demanded to know why I was taking pictures of his license plate. once I started taking pictures of the Lexus from the front. I looked at him like he was crazy, said that I wasn't taking pictures of his truck period, and explained that I was taking pictures of the Lexus next to his truck. He immediately apologized and went back to fishing. It wouldn't be the first time somebody thought I was taking pictures of their vehicle when I was not...



Back in the summer of 2013, I stopped at a used car consignment lot on 611 in Ottsville to look at the vehicles. It was a Sunday and they were closed, and there was a repair shop (also closed) directly behind the used car place. There was an absolutely mint red Chevy S-10 Xtreme at the garage, and I took some pictures of the S-10. Directly by the S-10 was a blue 1992ish Buick Roadmaster sedan. This old Buick was the biggest piece of shit ever, with peeling paint and no wheel covers; I had no interest in the Buick whatsoever...

Unfortunately, the owner of the Buick happened to be riding by as a passenger in his lady friend's car, a red 1997ish Dodge Intrepid; I can still remember this vividly...

I was taking pictures of the S-10, and I heard a car turning onto the gravel lot (the aforementioned red Intrepid); I looked up and saw the Intrepid heading towards me at a dangerous rate of speed. I stepped to the side and the car actually seemed to AIM IN MY DIRECTION! The woman driving actually turned the wheel and aimed the car at me, then turned left before she would have actually hit me, and this angry little man in a wife beater hopped out of the shotgun seat; I was livid and immediately started screaming it at him because I felt the driver of the Intrepid had tried to run me over.

He brushed this off, seemingly thinking that his friend's actions were justified because I was taking pictures of his car, and started screaming at me; I asked him if he owned the red S-10, and just kept screaming about "his car"; I finally said "you mean the Buick?"

He said yes, and now it was my turn to make him feel like the fool he was; I said I was not taking pictures of the Buick, and only the red S-10. The S-10 was not his, so he didn't give a shit. He said that the garage was his buddy's, and he wanted to make sure that I wasn't up to no good...

It was broad daylight and I was wearing a floral print Hawiian shirt, I was driving a 3-year old truck with less than 30K miles, and I was carrying a Nikon camera was easily worth more than his shitbox Buick. If I wanted to be sneaky and try to case the place for a robbery or something, why the hell would I dress the way I was dressed and be wandering around in broad daylight?!?! Seriously asshole, I'm not interested in your early 90s methmobile...

I told my parents, some family members, and a few of my friends about this. My uncle suggested the guy owed money on the car and was trying to hide it from the repo man, though this made little sense because it was a $500 shitbox (unless he did one of those car title loans). My dad believed that might have had drugs or something else illegal stashed in the trunk. One of my theories is that he was going through a divorce and hiding the car from his wife...

Anyway, I went back to the property a while later during normal business hours and talked to the owners of both the consignment lot and the repair shop. I asked the owner if one of his customers was a short guy with a shitty blue early 90s Buick Roadmaster, and he said that he did not have a customer with such a vehicle; I think that the guy owed money to somebody and was hiding the car in plain sight. Ten years later, the consignment lot is still there, but the garage has been vacant for years...

 

Rare "base model" 2008 Lexus GX470 ("Base" means it doesn't have a GPS navigation system, which means that by default it does not have a backup camera)


July 15th, 2023:

Warminster, Pennsylvania

 

July 15th, 2023:

Doylestown, Pennsylvania