New Member, Old Dog

New member here!

Been building Jeeps and stuff for many years. My buddies all said I would be the least likely of us to ever own or build a Toyota. FOOLS! All of them...

Without their knowing or approval I purchased, built, used, and sold a 1988 Toyota 4x4 Van. It was bad ass. With the proceeds of the sale, I bought a bone stock, 1st Gen Tacoma Extracab TRD. It is a blank canvas to build my next adventure vehicle. All my Jeep buddies can suck it.

It's Taco time now.....


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Here's my last build. I called her The Buttplug.

 

That is pretty rad. Welcome to TW!

 

That's one sweet van! Now lets see some pictures of the TACO!

 

Nice buttplug. I dig the full panel vans.

 

Well I just brought it home yesterday so its a little bland at the moment..

 

Looks good! Nice clean slate as you said!

 

Good looking truck!

 

Thanks! Its almost cherry. 2002, 186k miles, 5 speed runs like a top but I gotta address the CEL first...P0420. Might need a Cat or two or four

 

Welcome to The Forum!

I want a Butt-Plug!

 

Welcome to TW... Nice looking 1st Gen!!

 

Welcome to TW

 

Welcome to TacomaWorld!

 

You sure you want that out on the internet?

 

It's all true on the internet after all. lol

Nice find. 5 speed Toyo vans with true low range are hard to find. They're even harder to find in the cargo version. I had an 88 that was also a silver cargo. Mine's name was the toaster. Me and some buddies where up on a deck one day and my rig was parked below. The paint had peeled in two very distinct lines down the roof. They looked a lot like toaster slots and the name stuck. You didn't happen to be a member of toyotavantech.com did you? Great site for those rigs.

 

@Sperrunner has a crusty plug.

 

Welcome to TW, the van was badass. Standing by to see what you do to the Tacoma

 

Yep. Buttplug was a 5 speed, hi/low xfer case and locking hubs. I sold it in under 24 hours and had people from all over the country telling me they were going to fly to Denver to buy it. Of course I sold it to the first guy that showed up with the cash. The next day I bought a sweet Taco and had plenty of cash left over from the Buttplug sale. Gotta love craigslist.

Yeah, I have (had) a blog over on toyotavantech.com. Sounds like a great community here on TW too.

 

You gonna make a build thread?

 

TW is a pretty good community. There's a ton of info here and if your the type that can sort it without asking questions that have been asked 100 times it's a fine place to hang out. Just like any community there's know it alls, know nothings, and a lot of know it alls that know nothing. Most folks sit in the middle of that bell curve. As a resource for your build it's top notch.

You got any plans for the build yet?

 

Probably. But I currently know nothing about this truck so for a few weeks Ill be researching and designing what I want to build. It will be EXTREME - and by EXTREME, I mean extremely mediocre. Rugged, but refined.