there are a LOT of older Toyota trucks in Guatemala - picture thread

Playa Grande

 

Playa Grande

 

Quetzaltenango

 

Quetzaltenango

 

Been to Guatemala, I think that half the pickups on the road are Toyotas.

and they don't like V6's cause they think they burn too much gas.

 

I wonder if that is a real or fake bullet hole. My full sized truck has a real bullet hole and thats exactly how it looks.

 

I’d bet the majority of these were bought in the US and sent there in convoys. They’d buy as many as they could find in a trip and use the running ones to drag the busted ones to a port or border. Between the recall for frames on the first gens and the guys who scout out every one they can get their hands on, there are hardly any left in the junkyards for parts.

 

I see these convoys coming down through El Paso from wherever they come from all the time.
Spot on with the description, it looks like a junkyard truck they got running towing the one they couldn’t. Packed with bags of stuff in both.

 

All of the newer trucks in the cities seem to be Hilux, and what I was told by a local a couple years ago was pretty much what you guys said: Tacomas and 4Runners come in on trucks via Mexico. I like the local bed rails, racks and bull bars. Also everyone adds TRD stickers to everything!

 

All I see is tanks

 

I talked to one of the owners of a junkyard here in AZ who used to specialize in Tacoma’s and he said he almost always gets outbid by people who take them south of the border. At the price they sell for even parting them out he can’t make any money. I see the convoys on the i10 or i8 all the time.

Pretty frustrating if you’re looking for parts.

 

Quetzaltenango (Xela)

 

Quetzaltenango (Xela)

 

Quetzaltenango (Xela)

 

Quetzaltenango (Xela)

 

Quetzaltenango (Xela)

 

Quetzaltenango (Xela)

 

Quetzaltenango (Xela)

 

Quetzaltenango (Xela)

 

Panajachel