New York City Land Cruiser Restoration & Sales
If you’re in New York City and you’ve been looking for a shop that actually knows Toyota Land Cruisers, you’ve found us. We’re Land Cruiser Restorations, a family owned shop based in Belle Plaine, Kansas, and we’ve been building, restoring, and selling Land Cruisers for clients across the Northeast for over 20 years.
New York City Land Cruiser owners are a specific kind of person. You’re not buying a Cruiser to sit in traffic on the BQE. You’re buying it for the Catskills on Friday afternoon. The Adirondacks on a long weekend. The back roads of Vermont and the dirt tracks of the Berkshires. The Pine Barrens of New Jersey. The North Fork of Long Island. You live in one of the greatest cities in the world and you know exactly how to get out of it — and a properly built Land Cruiser is the best possible way to do it.
We Come To You
Distance is never a problem. We handle all transport at no cost to you — we lift our fingers so you don’t have to. From pickup to delivery, it’s covered. You don’t have to drive it anywhere or figure out logistics. We handle it completely.
What We Build
We specialize in full Land Cruiser restorations and custom builds across the entire lineup — FJ40, FJ55, FJ60, FJ62, FJ70, FJ80, and 100 Series. Whether you want a factory-correct restoration, a full LS V8 conversion, or a build ready for the back roads of the Catskills and the trails of the Adirondacks, we’ve done it and we know how to do it right. Every build is handled in house from start to finish — drivetrain, suspension, brakes, electrical, interior, and paint — and road tested before it ever leaves our shop.
A Word About Northeast Trucks
New York and the surrounding region is road salt country. Hard winters, aggressive road treatment, and decades of freeze-thaw cycles take a real toll on a truck’s undercarriage. We know exactly what to look for when sourcing a Northeast Land Cruiser and we know how to assess what’s structural and what’s cosmetic. We will tell you straight what you’re working with before a dollar gets spent. Sometimes the right answer is to source a truck from somewhere drier and ship it in — and we can do that too.
Don’t Have a Land Cruiser Yet? We’ll Find One.
Not every client comes to us with a truck already in hand and that’s completely fine. We actively source rust-free Toyota Land Cruisers worthy of restoration so you don’t have to. Tell us what series and what specs you’re after and we’ll track one down.
Build To Suit
No two builds are the same and we don’t treat them that way. Every Land Cruiser that comes through our shop is built around your vision — your color, your interior, your performance specs. There’s no preset package and no pressure to fit into one. You tell us what you want and we build it.
A Family Business That Treats You Like One
Land Cruiser Restorations is owned and operated by James Sheppard and his family. When you call or email us you’re talking to Jim, Jesse, or Amber — real people who know these trucks inside and out and genuinely care about getting your build right. You’ll get photos along the way, straight answers to your questions, and a finished product we’re proud to put our name on.
New York City — the Catskills are two hours north and the Adirondacks are three. Let’s build you something worth the drive.
Call or text us at 316-633-9902 or 316-992-5986 or email us at info@landcruiserrestorations.com to talk about your build.