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September 21, 2008
ICON’s FJ45 Pickup SEMA Build
By Rob Einaudi
Editor-in-Chief
In addition to the Baja FJ43 that ICON is building for SEMA, they are building this cool little pickup, based on the FJ45 short wheelbase Land Cruiser design. Check out the FJ45 ride page for the latest updates, including pics of the body coming back from the powder coaters.
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Anonymous
Sep 24, 2008 at 3:41 pm
Dave at AEV, is a friend and I hold him in high regard. Dave designed the Brute, is an excellent craftsman. However, to call this ICON a rip-off of that 2002 design is a bit off base. Dave has been studying out custom FJ45 pick up designs since about 1999, and the Toyota original dates from the early 1960’s. You are comparing apples and oranges, and my orange tree is older!
Either way I will try to take that as a curveball compliment….. Jonathan @ ICON
craig wood
Sep 24, 2008 at 2:56 pm
To think for a minute that this is a rip off of an AEV Brute is hilarious. For those of you that are not familiar with an ICON it by far is a much higher quality vehicle as well as this design has been around through the toyota circles for years before jeep ripped off the idea! Do your research & get your facts straight. Only a jeeper would insult the up ccustomization of such a vehicle. I would bet the bank this ICON would out perform the BRUTE hands down!
CD
Sep 23, 2008 at 11:36 pm
Rip off of an AEV BRUTE!
http://www.aev-conversions.com/products/brute/
Derrick
Sep 21, 2008 at 11:02 am
Looks just like the AEV TJ Brute that debuted at the 2002 SEMA Show. (http://www.aev-conversions.com/vehicles/show_tj_brute.php)