PennSilverTaco's "Perfect 5-Lug Regular Cab" Build, Aspergers, and General BS MegaThread!

Is there a thread for that on here?

 

Ironically, the only people who have done anything right on my truck outside of routine maintenance like oil changes are my neighbor Ryan who I paid with a 12-pack of Michelob Ultra for helping me install the backup camera, and my body guy Butch (who fixed my truck after a drunk driver hit me) for installing the intermittent wipers last month...

 

Hmm, never trust a guy that drinks Michelob ultra.

Butch? Isn't that a girls name?!?

 

Found the picture of me with Bunny Sigler at Puck from November 2012...

 

I beg to differ:
https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads...t-and-backup-camera-in-my-truck-photos.452828

 

Butch is a nickname he's had since at least 1983 (since that's when he bought the property he currently operates out of). His real name is Ray.

 

I thought it was the name used for a masculine lesbian.

 

Same 2012 Halloween Party:

At no other bar but Puck will you EVER find these two engaging in friendly conversation...



Batman is actually my best friend Doug, and that is Dave, Puck's longtime open mic host, dressed as the Joker, but still...

The Dark Knight and one of his biggest enemies coming to the same bar to have a beer? Only Puck has those bragging rights!

There's also a video somewhere on YouTube (posted by me) from this same night where you can see Dave on stage belting out "Eight Days a Week" on his beloved Rickenbacher, in his Heath Ledger Joker outfit... Priceless!

If I remember correctly, most of us piled into the Odyssey seen in the pictures above and drove to Wegman's at about midnight, plus Dave in his own car still in his Joker outfit, and it was Halloween so his costume very well-received by the employees of Wegman's.

 

This was taken in October 2011, a year before I debuted the Puck-O-Lantern. These were not even real pumpkins, and while they're cool...



I still have the distinct honor of being the genius behind the original Puck-O-Lantern!

 

40 is my guess..

 

I have over $2,000 in my truck between the stereo and the wheels, but the best part of my truck cost me nothing and means more to me than the truck itself!

I've talked about my step-Grandpa before, but I never said who he is... The only regret I have is that I'm only related to him by marriage. He was my biological Grandma's second husband. They married in 1977...

Among other things, two sets of grandparents means more presents!

How many people can say anyone in their family has their own Wikipedia page? Here's a picture of him from the 1940s (I think it's from the 1940s; just Googled his name; That is unmistakably my step-Grandpa):



My grandpa played served in World War II as a Navy SEAL before they were even called Navy SEALs (he was a frogman), played in in the NFL (NY Giants and LA Dons), and ran this company in the 1980s.

The hood ornament of his 1993 Lincoln Continental currently hangs from the rear-view mirror in my 2010 Toyota Tacoma...

 

Next time I visit my Grandparents' I'll get a picture of the man himself next to my Tacoma...

 

Here's a picture of me and the man who bought me my Tacoma (my dad), in the S2000. The photo was taken in 2005-2006, and that's the Pathfinder we traded for the Tacoma in the background...

 

Me in the S2000 (the date on the inspection sticker should give you an idea of how old this picture is)...

 

Honestly, if he was some young guy or a punk kid, and not an old man, I would have pummeled him...

 

My cousin's husband's friend got hammered at a rugby game. It was particularly cold out, so he sought out a port-a-potty to take a nap in. He locked himself in a port-a-potty and fell asleep... Woke up stone cold sober but with a roaring hangover and drove home...

 

I drove my friend's 1974 Ford F100 on just a learner's permit. You can see him riding shotgun in the first picture. He's the one who'd been drinking and was like 22 at the time. I was 20 at the time and stone cold sober. I learned how to drive stick in a 1991 Toyota pickup with no power steering or power brakes, and this truck was harder to drive. The blue F100 below had an automatic transmission (C4?) but also no power steering or brakes. Yes, the truck was insured, inspected, and registered. The truck was in the process of being restored at the time, and the floorboard on the passenger was missing (you could see pavement), but it was totally legally. I was 20 and only had a learner's permit, but Pennsylvania law states that someone with a learner's permit can drive with a licensed driver over age 21 in the vehicle. My friend was 22 and had a valid license...

Of all the vehicles I've ever driven in my life, this one was the hardest to drive:


I just drove the truck around the block and was amazed that anyone could handle driving it on a daily basis (but it's nothing to my friend who owns it and drives 18-wheelers for a living; he still has it, though it's matte black with chrome baby moons now):

 

I've come a long way from what I had for the first 2 years after I got my license...

 

The first time I decorated the Tacoma for Christmas (December 2011), though it was not as elaborate...

 

Right on man!