Oregon and Washington Truck Spotting

Judging by the decal he's tired of scraping morons and/or their collateral damage off the road. That shit's gotta be traumatic.

 

+1

 

Have a good friend that works for the medical examiner and her stories are crazy. She says streetbike crashes usually involve a line of techs sweeping the scene each with a 5 gallon bucket to put pieces into as they find them scattered about.

 

Yeah, a close buddy of mine did a ride along with a fire department EMT... he said it was the most traumatic experience of his life. People OD'ing with screaming babies, traffic accidents, domestic abuse, etc... Needless to say, my buddy did not pursue his intended career as a firefighter.

 

My uncle was a firefighter for years until his knees retired him to an EMT role. He definitely didn't find my "rather die than change smoke detector batteries" joke funny, at all.

 

Forgot to post these last night 6:15 on 405 Nb.

 

Not tacoma related but someone at work must have got a bit o' cash or likes classic vehicles:
1. 1971 GTX 4 speed - not cherry but could be.
2. 19XX Mini - perfect

 

deleted, not nice

 

my grandpa was VP of UW medical sciences. He said they internally called motorcyclists “eventual organ donors” i nearly supported his theory by wrecking a dirt bike w/o a helmet at 45MPH and breaking my collar bone and losing some hearing in one ear. He read me the riot act and i didnt get on a bike until after he died

 

I know it isn’t a Tacoma or a truck but I’d never seen one before.
Vancouver WA

 

they’re all over Portland, Hood River, and Bend! They’re dope as hell!

 

With the 25 year import rule, all the weird late 90s stuff is finally making it over here by the boat load to try and get $10k+ for what is essentially a $2,000 vehicle

 

There is one here in Spokane with trax on it.

 

It’s weird because I was always under the exact same impression but camped with a dude halfway up Mt Hood last year and he had a RHD Land Cruiser at the trailhead. When I asked him what the appeal was he said it was way way cheaper than a used 80 series.

I wonder if the value tanks on resale once they’re imported since it’s such a small market and the average person isn’t paying extra for RHD.

There are always crazy expensive diesel imports popping up in the PNW Craigslist thread that never seem to sell.

 

Some of the vehicles, sure absolutely. Skylines, Cruisers, Silvias, Supras, etc. I used to drive by an import yard on Aurora every day. For every 1 gtr they had they had 15 of those weird vans, or odd mini firetrucks, or delivery trucks. Gotta fill the containers with some high and some low value vehicles

 

bahahha I keep seeing one of those mini fire trucks around lately. Seems like the worst buy ever for a personal vehicle.

 

I don't know the way the wildfires are around here it might not be the worst purchase.

 

A lot of folks in the 3rd gen forums seem new to internet forums and vehicles in general. Additionally, their taco is their first new car purchase ever, so they're pretty anal about things. My bumper's paint came slightly mismatched compared to the rest of the truck from the factory and I was wondering about that too; whether or not it got hit at the dealership when they told me there was a delay in my order.

 

I have the terrible single coat white. When things start chipping or cracking I just cut it off, cover it, or remove it. My bumper was terrible

 

I originally wanted that problematic white but said fuck it, don't care about resale value with this so I got the inferno. I wound up cutting most of the bumper off anyway and tossing the rear bumper in the trash lol.