I've had my little Tacoma since 2013. Bought it with a salvage title and 157k miles for $3400 cash and it had a fresh repaint. It's got 241k now and the only "major" repairs have been a few PS pumps and a complete new exhaust system. The clutch has been chattering for the past few months so I just ordered a stock replacement Aisin clutch kit. It's the best little truck ever and I'll never sell it.
I found it in Western Nebraska, pretty rare as there was zero rust and the dash wasn’t cracked. I sold it a few years ago.
Here is my daily driver/autocross race truck '74 F100. All aluminum (except the block) 395" FE, 4wdb, Addco swaybars, CE panhard, KYBs, Trutrac, etc....in the winter I put some whitewall snows and Moondiscs on it, and about 300 lbs of bullshit in the bed for traction.
My '94 F-250 460 and the '77 Highboy I built for the female. Had my '94 since 2000 when I was 20 years old.
I bought this S10 new in 96. A buddy of mine flamed it, I lowered it and put dual straight pipes on it (Y after conv) 4 cylinder 5 speed. Never winter driven , sold it to my daughters friend in 05 and I asked for first right of refusal if he wanted to sell it. He called me 16 years later, Of course I bought it back... he never drove it in the winter either....
I just got my 87 back that I sold in 1991 with 43k miles on so my wife and I could buy our first house. I bought the truck from a GM tech that special ordered the truck with 18k miles off L&M motors in Blue Earth mn. It still had the delivery plastic on the interior, had some unique options like 305 350th dual tanks rear slider, first year for fuel injection. I kept it spotless, under hood as well, and did just a slight drop by extending the rear shackle, heating the front couls. The guy I sold it to took impeccable care of truck till now with only 85k miles. He even pulled my brand new big and littles off and kept them in storage. I put them on 33 years later lol.
A Ford guy with a dam-ole-Shivel-lay !! 1/4 million miles on it and I would drive it cross country tomorrow IF I had to !! (been in the family since new)... 6sally6
I had a 69 short step that was lowered as a daily for a few yrs, prior to lowering I bought this crazy optioned 73 camper special for the 454, old guy drove it to my house from a few towns over and it was a legitimate 72 corvette motor in it. This was my daily driver at the time, gutless wonder, 305, 700R4, 3.08 gears and a 40 gallon gas tank. It was a good flat hi-way cruiser but if you filled it up and added a couple friends it would drag on everything. Recently just sold my 02 Z71 I bought new so it'll be my first winter driving the PPV Tahoe, of course I added a cowl hood, Black Bear tuner, complete cold air kit, air bag helpers in rear and an exhaust. This thing has a great top end and will chirp 3rd gear when I'm putting the wood to it, handles really well too. The bad part is everyone in front of ya will drive under the speed limit thinking your the cops, get nowhere fast in it. Lol
20 yr old truck at the time, I had seen the truck a few yrs earlier at a gas station and instantly noticed the 454 grill badge. I ask the old fellow if it had the original engine, he said yes, I ask if he wanted to sell it, he said no there's plenty of life left in it. I thought damn that thing is rough, I'm surprised it's driveable as it is, gave him my number and told him to call when he was ready, 4 yrs later he calls. I put the motor/trans in my 41 and parted out the rest, truck had power steering/brakes, air conditioning, Cheyenne interior with buckets/console, tilt, all maintenance records since new. There wasn't anything in there about an engine change so the corvette motor was somewhat of a mystery, I sold it to a friend about 5 yrs ago, it's production date was 2 months prior to the production date of his 73 vette.
Loved my old, lowered s-10 daily driver it was 2.8 5 speed = 24 mpg, the Wisconsin winters rusted it until the box was going to fall of Replaced it in 2017 with a 2012 Chevy Cruise 6 speed, rocker panels going away on it now too Never driven my 98 Chevy dually in winter since I got it in 2003 and its in great shape. Hope it lasts me as long as I want to camp and tow, the 7.4 could use about 50 more hp when I pull the 3700 lb. camper and loaded car trailer to go racing. My wife's camper makes my truck look small lol The 66 Chevy pickup I bought as a project that has a mid 80s K-20 square body frame and running gear Currently the cab rockers/corners done and in primer, doors being reskinned and are in body shop prison going on the 2 years
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