New Tacoma member who likes to build stuff

watkins303 · Sep 29, 2016

Hey Tacoma World my names Travis I'm from Southern California and a new owner of a White 2017 TRD Sport Crew Cab and absolutely love it.

I was a previous owner of a 2009 Nissan Xterra and built a lot of prototype and even aftermarket accessories for it that I am still selling. I haven't really made any real money out of it but its always been my passion to design and build things since I've been a little kid.

First things first the taco. First mod was to put the black decals in the stamped out "TACOMA" letters.

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Here's some of the old stuff that I have built and developed. I am not a professional but figure all kinds of stuff out from fiberglass to custom LED lights.

Pocket style fender-flares for Xterra's.

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I built a custom bumper with LED lights and a hoodscoop

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Also did some retrofitting

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Recently I just built a new Pecky-Cypress Table for my room.

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I plan on developing some new toys for the 3rd gen Tacoma's as well. Here's a link to all the threads I created on the Xterra forums. http://www.thenewx.org/forum/search.php?searchid=22937897

If anyone needs some help with retrofits, fiberglass, carbon fiber, woodworking, manufacturing, cad design, mold making, or even plastic, feel free to reach out. I am not a professional but have some experience learning things the hard way.