Earl Warden Jr.

As the head mechanic for one of the very first dealerships to import Toyotas into the country, Earl was working on Landcruisers long before the TLCA was even a pipedream. Earl eventually left the dealership to start his own Toyota repair shop, which soon became a Mecca in the Landcruiser world. He was a heck of a mechanic and a heck of a nice guy.