Tacoma Stalking, er...uh, Spotting, with Charlie™ (1st Gen Edition)!

@shakerhood

You told me the story of how your truck should have been totaled...

Did you ever see this thread of mine?

 

copper canyon mica, available one year in 1998 is the closest to orange i think?
looks like they skipped cardinal red that year to try some CCM

 

I honestly thought it was red!

 

it could be?
i wasn't there!

 

What I was trying to figure out is what the hell gave it that interesting body/frame damage!

 

i vote for gremlins

 

They did drive a snowplow through a guy's house on Christmas eve in 1984!

 

That’s for sure the ever elusive highly sought after copper canyon mica.

 

And you live in Cali, where 1st Gens generally seem to thrive (not rust)!

 

i am going to paint something on my truck copper canyon mica!
or at least debating to do so

maybe the rope hooks!!!!

 

Yeah that looks like it was hit!

 

I have 1996, 1998, and 2001 Tacoma sales brochures in my automotive literature collection; In 1998, power steering was listed as standard on all V6 and 4x4 models, but in 2001 it was standard even on the most basic 4-banger 2WD models...

I'm curious if anyone knows when power steering became standard on our beloved Tacos?

 

i've had 2 Toyota cars with no power steering
'78 Celica
'79 Corolla

if memory serves me, i never really noticed they did not have power steering either
but if a vehicle does have power steering and it fails for whatever reason you do notice it has no power steering i.e., very difficult to steer iirc
i may be wrong about this however... its been decades

 

My '94 base (not even a rear bumper) 4WD 22RE PU came with only one feature, the power steering. Cost was 11.9k new.

 

I learned to drive stick in a '91 Toyota 2WD pickup with power brakes but no power steering!

 

I would honestly love to find a no-frills '95 or '96 Taco RC 2WD with a manual transmission and no power steering, preferably in white since it probably wouldn't A/C; I'd add a killer stereo, some nice rims, and window tint, but otherwise I'd keep it completely stock!

 

were the power brakes non functional i.e. broken?
the Corollas brakes went out in 2oo4 so had to junk it, had it for almost 12 years (25yr old car) , it also had no working heat or defrost, just those electric defrost lines on the back hatch worked lol

 

I've driven a metric fuck ton of vehicles in my life. I've never seen a truck without power steering. It just doesn't work, even on the small 15's on the older 2WD models of the 80's it's too much force to turn.

Rack and pinion was revolutionary with 1995.5 Tacoma, and the 2005 introduced effortless rack and pinion that was compared to sports cars on release.

Edit: There were non-power assist in the early 90's! Maybe not in Canada, but we didn't see as many 4 cylinder 2WD models as the states.

 

Brain fart! It was the other way around; Power brakes and may have even had ABS, but no power steering...

Editing now!