Austin Area TW Chapter (all gens welcome, even T4Rs; heck, just make it a Toyota and we're good)

Lol. Naaah, that one you made is really cool though!

 

Appreciate it!

 

Most car companies put crap speakers in their vehicles. Now make those new ones sound real good by slapping on some sound deadening.

 

Whoa!

 

Ok Gang put the date on your calendars, July 25th....

SA BBQ Fun Day...

SA is going to have a BBQ out at my Casa with Cookings done by @Bigdaddy4760. Further deets for the event are yet to be ironed out but will post them accordingly so that you all can come out and enjoy. If you want to stay the night those with RTT's can sleep in the back field so that you don't half to worry about driving home that night so that everyone can have a good time. I will need to get a list of everyone that this going to attend by the 10th of July so that we can make sure we have enough food for everyone, BYO(Beer or Booze) of your choice will have water on hand for everyone.

This applies to anyone who wants to make the drive here, if you reading this message then your welcome to come.


@Phoosa + 1
@Oldie2007 + 1
@RockHed
@DanishTaco + wife and kids
@07taco
@Pizzasteve5717 + 2
@TacoDude 72 +1
@BuzzMor +1
@ChadsPride
@1loganwright
@riz_atx +1

 

Escape velocity achieved. Will be in Austin by the 24th. This is quite the haul from Minneapolis.

 

Be safe coming down - we have weather all the way from Missouri to the coast happening. Around Iowa you can expect to pick up a tail wind, so there's that.

Oh, and mask up when you gas up. Folks have gotten stupid and our case counts down here have gone apeshit. 500 new cases just yesterday.

 

Meh. This was quite the haul, from Woodbury, in 2003. Travel safe, I-35 is BORING!

 

What happened to that 4Runner?

 

Safe travels brother.

 

I started out by typing that the 4Runner, my not yet wife's silver one, was shipped down in the semi trailer, but then realized you meant the red, Gen 0, Taco. That's actually a '93 Toyota pickup, with a Leer camper shell, designed to mimic what 4Runners looked like back then. Great little truck, I bought it in '93 with 630 miles, from a kid that never made the first payment on it, and drove it 136K miles, until 1/5/08, when I sold it after I bought an '07 FJ Cruiser. Dumbest vehicle move of my life; I traded the FJC in on a new Taco less than 2 years later.

Sad story, the guy that bought my '93 fixed cell towers for a living, and bought it to pull behind his motor home, as he traveled cross country. I found out he died of a heart attack just a couple of years after buying the truck.

 

Gorgeous little truck - clever shell.

Worst decision of my life was not getting a '91 (back in '91) and going with a cheaper car - if I had to do it all over again, I'd have gotten the truck.

 

Does anyone know of someone or a shop that could weld two gussets on L brackets for a bumper mount for a reasonable price? I live in NW Austin, but okay to drive in Austin/RR/CP/GT area. Thanks in advance for any recommendations. (Photo enclosed of the finished brackets.)

 

This was the truck I had when I ran across that '93, (yeah, I've had Toyotas for awhile). I think it was an '86, might have been an '84, too lazy/busy to look it up. I swapped it and some cash to the guy that owned the '93. That shell on the back was an Owatonnan, made in Owatonna, Minnesota, about 40 minutes from where I grew up.

 

@Texoma

 

Sure, I can fire up the welder and lay down a nice bead for ya.

Thank you sir.

 

Thank you very much, I will pm you.

 

We managed to miss all the weather. First night was Kansas City, last night was Dallas at my kid sister’s place. We’re waiting the rain out until we finish the final push to Austin.

Also, regarding the masks; Minneapolis is a whole level of apeshit more than Texas... thus the move.

 

But not Austin. Protests every day. Avoid downtown and you’ll be okay.