Your First Toyota Truck and your current Truck

My first and current Toyota is a 2018 DCSB. Hopefully the next few years are as good as the last three.

 

1983 SR5 Longbed 2wd Pick up (top)
2018 Tacoma Longbed Double Cab OR 4X4

 

1995.5 Tacoma reg cab 5 speed 4x4 4cyl manual. Cardinal red. super fun
1998 Tacoma access cab v6 4x4 manual. White, added TRD supercharger.
2007 Tacoma access cab v6 4x4 manual. White, TRD sport, had for 11 years, my nephew has it now. great truck.
2018 Tacoma double cab v6 4x4 auto. Cement, TRD Sport.

I have a home video somewhere with the 1st one on it, it was a great looking truck. I saw it like 2 years after I traded it and the paint was super oxidized already.
The supercharged one was fun, but had to use it as trade to get my dream car, it had manual door locks and windows which I ended up hating. It was fast.

Cheers
M.

 

I bought a 1998 T100 in 2001, it had come off a 3-year lease and had 26,000 miles. I sold it in 2018 with 145,000 miles. I loved that truck, it was bulletproof. Besides the normal consumables, the only things I replaced were the radiator, muffler, and starter contacts. The photos are what I used in the ads, the first person who looked at it bought it.

Its replacement is a 2018 DCLB OR. I’m happy with the truck, but I did lose a good bit of bed space and the interior is smaller, more plasticky, and cheap compared to the T100.

 

Okay, I'm in.

First is my 2006 Sport DC 4x4. My girl never let me down. Moved me and my family across the country, got me out of some tight jams, and never had a mechanical issue. Miss her:



My newest Tacoma is my 21 Sport DC 4x4. Went with the darker Army Green and blacked her out. So far, she's been a great replacement. Hoping I get 16 years out of this one as well (or more).

 

My first Toyota pickup was a 1977 Hilux. My current pickup is a 2020 TRD sport 4x4. Been buying Toyota pickups ever since.

 

That Forest Green '93... yea that's the one I had too - a real beater that took a lickin and kept on tickin...
All I ever did was change the spark plugs, the oil, and the tires.

 

My 1st 1988, A few years back I herd it's still running like a champ



2021 Off-Road, Ready for Duty !

 

1978 Land Cruiser, purchased in 1984. 2018 Tacoma, Purchased in 2018.

 

That Land Cruiser - holy cow they have come a long way 'eh ..

 

Seeing as how the only vehicles I’ve ever driven/owned are manual Toyota trucks, here we go:

1980 Toyota Pickup:
Inherited from my brother in 1998. Was my high school and early college vehicle. Put a lift in it and some 32s. It was a rust bucket but also a tank.


Next was my 2000 Tacoma SR5 3.4L V6 manual. Installed a 3” lift and 33’s. It was a great truck and the only reason I sold it was because I needed something with more room to tote around my precious cargo (kids).


And currently, 2017 TRD Pro Manual. 33” tires, sliders, led stuffs, and a short throw Core shifter. Love this truck.

 

Started out with an 01 Tundra with 300,000 miles that had lived a very rough life up until I bought it

Tundra at Engineer Pass by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

And now I currently own both a 2016 TRDOR

IMG-2001 by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

and a 2021 TRDOR

IMG-2010 by Michael Rickerd, on Flickr

 

1st truck was a 1987 Xtra cab 4x4 22RE. Used in 2006 for $3500. Current tacoma is a 19 DCSB TRD4x4 for $33k

 

Funny stuff. My first Toyota wasn’t actually mine because I wasn’t old enough to drive it. But it was the same as yours. I think it was a 92 though, also bought in Sacramento. My dad saw the ad in the paper for one at the special price and camped out to get it. No A/C, we called it “The Microwave”

 

I lived in the Bay Area at the time, we didn't need no A/C - but I needed it when I moved to Mid-West LOL

 

I had a twin to your first one, sold it to my friend in 2013 who still has it

 

And 2 more

 

At the time, (Summer 1979) I thought I would buy a Datsun because I liked the body style. Then an acquaintance mentioned that he had owned a Toyota and drove the piss out of it and it had just kept on running, so I decided to take a chance. Long-bed 5-speed, price - $6300.

Here is the only halfway decent photo I have of it (a double exposure, at that) showing the Centerline wheels I mounted. It was orange:





Don't have any good photos of my 3rd gen either, yet. Price - $35k. Here, the '20 sits in the driveway:





In between these two I've owned: 1985 long-bed 5-speed; 1994 V-6 access cab; 2002 4-cyl access cab Prerunner; 2011 4-cyl access cab Prerunner; 2019 V-6 4x4 access cab (for the wife). I put 265k on the '85s original clutch. All Toyotas bought new.


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