California's ICON 4x4 specialises in building brand new classic off-road Ford Broncos and Toyota LandCruisers with epic custom touches.
Now, the man behind ICON, Jonathan Ward, has launched a new arm called TLC 4x4 which does the same thing but with newer fourbies, and the first one is going to Joe Rogan.
The king of the podcast will score a totally recreated 1993 FZJ80-series LandCruiser packing bespoke trim, heavy duty Aussie ARB locking diffs, and a 433kW (580hp) supercharged 6.2-litre GM LSA V8 under the bonnet.
Jon walks us through this new-age off-road bruiser, and he can even build one to your exacting specs. The price? If you have to ask...
Is this the toughest LandCruiser ever? Let us know in the comments.
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Iain Kelly
Contributing Journalist
A love of classic American and European cars drove Iain Kelly to motoring journalism straight out of high school, via the ownership of a tired 1975 HJ Holden Monaro.
For nearly 20 years he has worked on magazines and websites catering to modified late model high-performance Japanese and European tuner cars, as well as traditional hot rods, muscle cars and street machines. Some of these titles include Auto Salon, LSX Tuner, MOTOR, Forged, Freestyle Rides, Roadkill, SPEED, and Street Machine. He counts his trip to the USA to help build Mighty Car Mods’ “Subarute” along with co-authoring their recent book, The Cars of Mighty Car Mods, among his career highlights.
Iain lends his expertise to CarsGuide for a variety of advice projects, along with legitimising his automotive obsession with regular OverSteer contributions.
Although his practical skills working on cars is nearly all self-taught, he still loves nothing more than spending quality time in the shed working on his project car, a 1964 Pontiac. He also admits to also having an addiction to E30 BMWs and Subaru Liberty RS Turbos, both of which he has had multiple examples of. With car choices like that, at least his mum thinks he is cool.
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