Bringing this 1999 Tacoma Back to life

Aloha Guys,

Alittle back ground story I’m a Toyota Tacoma Enthusiast as you would say.
Love to build trucks from ground up. One picture is of my 2003 Toyota S Runner 3.4 Supercharged (Sold) sadly


Picked up this 1999 Tacoma about 9 months ago just because I wanted a truck to haul things around with.
It has a 5 speed trans 3.4L motor, decided to build the truck after about 5 months of owning it. This is the journey.

Truck was in pretty rough shape, rust, dents, smashes. ended up bodyworking and painting with epoxy primer in my garage

Bought some cosmis racing rims, custom fenders. Fabbed up a iPad dash and some door pods.

The truck is currently in paint for its final color, brand new seats and interior sitting I’m my garage waiting for the truck to be done. A lot of custom audio work to be done by myself as well.

Color is a secret for now, all I can say is, it isn’t black, it isn’t white.

Look forward to QA1 install, final paint color picture. Motor work (turbo) ECU wiring. All the goodies

 

5-lug FTW!

Welcome to TW!

 

Not new to the Tacoma world but I am new to this forum. Glad to be here and share the journey also answer any questions that I may have knowledge to

 

This world needs more people like you to preserve an endangered species (1st Gen Tacos)!

 

Great work so far! Subbed to follow your progress.

 

Truck should be done with paint in a few weeks, got a lot of work to put in, interior is completely gutted, no carpet, driver seat and dash board only. Really excited to get it started from ground up

 

Just one of those trucks I cannot get enough of

 

Subd

 

Welcome, nice rides! Not enough minitruck builds around here. Can't wait to see how it turns out!

 

How many miles on your current one?

 

Here’s a pic of the parts pile 2 months ago (you should see it now). Got a lot of speakers coming in for this truck, thinking a blowthrough with 2 12” subs in the bed. 4 10” mids 8 8” mids and 16 supertweeters. I’m a speaker head, as long as it looks and sounds clean I’m content. Keep it alive in here guys gotta keep my drive high for the stress that’s about to come with this build.

 

Mini truck Ftw

 

Truck just broke 250k, motor will be rebuilt before I throw my turbo kit on it,

 

Sick truck brotha! Any upcoming plans for it?

 

This is my 3rd mini this year well not 2020, more like October 2018-October 2019

 

My 1995 sold in October 1995 grille with 01-04 front bumper

 

Sadly I sold it a few months back. I regret it. But the boy that has it now is painting it and putting it on bags. I sold it with 348k on it. Ran like a top. I have a second gen 5 lug now

 

Those 2.4s last forever. My first truck was a 2005 2.7 access cab 5 lug, sadly before the build started somebody clipped me while driving on the freeway causing me to spin out and hit the wall resulting in a complete loss.

 

I love it man! Thanks for sharing the project and pics! I want a dropped v6 2wd baaaaad

 

Ain’t too hard to find, I found this truck for $1500, total so far maybe around 7-8k invested. Planning on keeping this one since I’m going balls to the wall but we will see. If the price is right everything is for sale.