What have you done to your Tacoma today? 1st Gen Edition

I was in upstate NY over the summer. I saw rust on body panels and was like,"Oh, yeah. I forgot about that." It was fairly rare to see a vehicle over 10 years of age.

All this frame recall talk made me nervous so I went and inspected my frame. My truck had been in Oregon for a year and Wisconsin for a year so had some reasoning to being a little nervous. Found a couple spots of surface rust and wondered if that was something to worry about. Then I saw some of the pictures posted by folks getting new frames. Holy... bat... guano.

 

They use a lot of Mag Chloride on the roads now. I hate it.

 

Because he's at least 67 years old in my best estimation.

The front range of Colorado is considered a steppe climate. Just one steppe up (what I did there... did you see it?) from a desert.

 

But I still look pretty good.

 

Indeed, Fine Sir

 

Very interesting. Searched on "driest state in the US", came back with this list:

1 Nevada
2 Utah
3 Wyoming
4 Arizona
5 New Mexico
6 Montana
7 Colorado
8 North Dakota
9 Idaho
10 South Dakota

http://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/driest-states.php

A bit surprising.

 

Interesting list, Montana and Idaho are surprising to me.

Just think about how dry the front range and western slope of Colorado are with those figures taking into consideration the snowfall in the alpine climate of our state. Granted the moisture content of our snow is very low, but still....

 

actually surprised Idaho isn't higher, I know Eastern Oregon is Dry as all hell but is made up for it by the coast and valley, guess maybe northern Idaho is making up for it...

 

Driest cities in the US:

1. Albuquerque, NM
2. Colorado Springs, CO
3. Denver, CO
4. Las Vegas, NV
5. Phoenix, AZ
6. Tucson, AZ
7. Minneapolis, MN
8. Salt Lake City, UT
9. Ogden, UT
10. Madison, WI

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-rele...es-with-the-vicks-moisture-map-239913731.html

I'm getting tired of nose bleeds, I know that for sure.

 

the coast and Willamette be all stealing the water.

 

Yup... My parents moved to Terrebonne(30min north of Bend) last year... it's surprising how dry it is, yet how much snow they get... they had over 2' last year total, and got about 8" last week...

 

Wyoming for the win!

 

California is driest in the summer months according to this sire.
http://www.currentresults.com/Weather-Extremes/US/driest-states.php

 

I find it humorous that AZ and NM are on the list for summer and that is their "wet" season.

 

Yeah don't know I am no scientists take it up with the guys who did the research.
We haven't had rain all year here in so Cal . Maybe a sprinkle or two. If they split California in half I would think so Cal would rank higher in the winter.

 

There must be a lot of CA to CO transplants here...

Walnut creek to Fort Collins

 

We don't like to admit it for our own safety, but there are quite a few.
Santa Cruz, Capitola, Venice, Manhattan, Redondo and Imperial Beaches, Corona, Riverside, San Bernardino, Victorville > Grand Junkyard with average 4-5 inches of rain in our area.

 

haha I also seemed to have mistaken this thread for the Colorado BS thread cause there was a lot of the locals posting in here. oops

 

Thats because of our monsoon season! We had some insane storms this yeah and hopefully flagstaff and the mountains will get a ton of snow this winter

 

I miss Tucson at times. Then I get reminded of how bloody hot it gets.