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This is what I am telling the lowballers eyeing my truck and giving me a shitty offer for it
Hmm, yeah fine, for [amount of shitty offer] I can sell you this one (or any piece of sh*t rustbucket pickup picture I can find)

But they walk away, I don't know why ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Stupid offer, stupid reply. You get what you pay/offer for, you know

 

Probably just weird lighting makes it look funny, or it's been repaired.

Frame colors have never been an option, lol...

 

it's not the first time! i have seen a blueish greenish frame on the early 1st gens and not black

 

Well, that's not a thing I've ever heard of Toyota doing. My 97 5 lug and 86 4RUnner had black frames. Could easily just be repairs or a restoration. Those pics loko more like lighting weirdness.

 

i should clarify, I have only seen TW pics, never one up close in person

 

here's the original ad for the rest of the giggles:
https://newyork.craigslist.org/fct/cto/d/westport-1996-toyota-tacoma-4x4-trd-v6/7032009370.html

 

the current owner at the time was probably 'jealous' of seeing the other 1st gens around with the then fancy TRD decals

 

When I was looking for my 1st gen, all I saw was stuff like this. Or scam posts. Or 20 year old garage queens for 20,000 bucks.

 

you mean 'shit beige'? yeah. too much. At the shop I work at, there's a hard rule- any beige cars show up for repairs get parked out back. Otherwise they multiply and sooner or later you end up with a beige buick park avenue in front of the shop.

 

touch of rust or two on it as well in some bad spots

body shop 18 years ago did a real nice job on that door

 

it was a friggin Toyota body shop too in Iowa
some 'girl' from Denver sideswiped me while i sat at a red light so her insurance paid for repair
they obviously did not do something right

 

You people laugh I fixed a few in this shape put them on the road 20 years ago drove them a few years I know one still lives on a farm in up state New York

As long as it passes the safety inspection it does not need to be pretty.

A Divorce can make you do many things you think you never would.

 

I agree looks like lighting. Look a the brake drum on the opposite side. Looks blue.

Also, the welding in several places on the brackets look like repair welds. For example, look at the base of the body mount. Looks like crunchy peanut butter smeared on it.

 

do you still have that rodeo?

 

Maybe, does it have a full tank of gas and a “like new” air freshener?

 

if you fill the tank full it starts leaking out of the top all over the ground now
hence the serious drop in value!

 

Can I get an up in this MFer??!
Seriously repairing these type of things usually only make sense if you are not having to pay the labor to keep it on the road. If it's your own time and labor who cares what you do with your time. If you wanna weld up rusty frames to keep Yotas on the road another 5-10 years, I think that's great. But who cares what I think, it's your time and it's your vehicle. (not you personally Wyoming09, just saying you in a general sense)

 

I agree 100% if you need to pay regular labor rate to keep a vehicle on the road .

keep swapping every few years

 

my nephew needs to learn some of that to repair his chrysler product