Two adjoining buildings. Our build floor on one side, our chassis shop, Rolling 40, on the other. Small crews, one vehicle at a time, nothing outsourced that we can build ourselves.
Forty Collection started with a single FJ and a belief that the chassis is the wrong place to compromise. Most restomod shops adapt an existing frame. We build our own. That decision became Rolling 40, our in-house chassis company, and it is why our Bronco and Defender builds ride on suspension we engineer ourselves.
Forty Collection started with a Toyota FJ and a passion that runs through South America, where these trucks were a part of growing up. Luis and JD restored the first ones in Colombia. After the third build, the idea changed. Instead of restoring trucks one customer at a time, they would re-engineer them: keep the look that made them legends, and rebuild everything underneath to drive like a modern vehicle.
That idea became The Forty Collection. The name comes from the FJ, the truck that started it. What began as a Toyota company grew into something larger. The roots are in South America. The company is in Florida. Today, every Forty Collection truck is designed, engineered, and built in the United States, at our two shops in East Fort Lauderdale, with our own chassis fabricated in-house through our sister company, Rolling 40.
Automotive expertise. Runs day-to-day operations across both shops.
Runs accounting, finance and administration.
A banking background brought to the build floor. Organizes the crews and oversees production.
We do full frame-off re-engineering. The body is period-correct. Everything else is new: modern drivetrains, independent suspension on our Bronco and Defender chassis, hand-stitched interiors, and Exclusive high-end paint jobs. Nothing on these trucks is a shelf part. The hardware is stainless. The components are the best in the industry. The result is a truck that looks like 1973 and drives like 2026.
