April 1, 2014


I love the fact that Land Cruiser parts still have the "teq" stamped on them. Some days I am easier to please.   - For the non-Land Cruiser viewers - "teq" is the Japanese katakana letters/symbols for Toyota or Toyoda (not misspelled) the founder of Toyota. Another legend is: "The way Marv from Spectre tells it, their family name was Toyoda. Apparently it was considered good luck if when your name was written, in whatever dialect, it was done with 7 pen strokes. So they changed it to Toyota, which gave them 7 strokes. Apparently that was a story he picked up while visiting the Toyota Corp. offices in Japan."

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