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

Yeah, unfortunately...

Frame got a clean bill of health when I got the truck inspected in August though!

 

Don’t leave that hitch on during the winter.

 

You mean the hitch and not the receiver, right? No way in hell I’m taking the whole bumper off twice a year!

 

When I ordered the “Thin Blue Line” magnets, they came as a pack of four, with two magnets and two “reusable window stickers”; My dad requisitioned one of the reusable stickers for his Yukon...

 

The receiver yea. The ball hitch what ever you want to call it.

 

What about the hitch cover that goes in place of the receiver?

 

If salt can get trapped in there I wouldn’t.

 

Got pulled over for rolling a stop sign maybe a mile from my house on the way home from getting the trailer hitch installed; As most people on here know, my truck is adorned with all sorts of pro-police stuff...

What I did was totally my fault, but an accident. The cop was like “Hey, it happens to the best of us; I’m gonna run you’re license and if everything checks out I’ll send you on your way”. I knew right then and there I wasn’t getting a ticket...

Anyway, the traffic stop ended with me asking the officer if was okay to step out of the truck and show him something. He said sure, and I got out and showed him the subwoofer/amp enclosure that my neighbor and I built two years ago; The cop loved my truck!

So, I got a trailer hitch installed on my truck, got pulled over, made friends with the cop who pulled me over; Now I’m drinking beer and watching Scarface...

Not a bad day at all!

 

Happy ending

 

They also will bust your shins if you leave them in, last year my neighbor parked his truck in front of my garage door as l was walking out with my hands full and l could not see the damn thing sticking out!

 

I have done that too. Sucked huge balls. Also ripped my pants

 

Damn that sucks! Unfortunately l was wearing shorts that day and took a nice chunk out of my leg.

 

https://www.propertyroom.com/l/2007-toyota-fj-cruiser-newark-nj-07114/14311909

 

My friend shared this on Facebook and I just had to borrow it, because it’s true!



For Christmas in 2003 (when I was 14), my grandma bought me a similar stereo (albeit a Panasonic, not an Aiwa); It back with red and silver accents, and it absolutely cranked! My cousin got a JVC system, though I think it was from his paternal grandparents (mine was from my maternal grandma). My cousin’s had a 3-CD changer, but I believe mine is a 5-CD; I still have mine in the basement so I will check when I get home from work...

The CD changer in my cousin’s broke within a year of him getting it, possibly due to the receiver falling off the desk; Mine is still fully operational, though the remote is missing...

By 2007-2008, I was still using the Panasonic, but almost exclusively listening to music via iPod, and I’d resorted to plugging my laptop into the tape deck via a car kit adapter...

 

One night in 2008, I got the bright idea to crank “Born to Run”...

We were living in an end unit townhouse at the time and the stereo was on top of a bookshelf against the wall; My dad went to take out the garbage and ran into our neighbor, who lived next door in an interior unit, and had come outside to figure out where all the noise was coming from...

My dad played dumb with the neighor, but made me turn down the volume when he came back inside

 

I've been to New York City nine times in my life; 1995, 1996, 2006, 2008 (twice that year), 2010, 2013, 2014, and 2019...

I've spent 21 of my 31 years on this blue marble we call the planet earth living less than two hours from NYC, so getting there pre-COVID was pretty easy! The second time I went to NYC was with a large group of family members in December 1996 to see the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall; The third time I went was almost a decade later, five years after the 9/11 attacks...

A movie called The Day After Tomorrow came out in 2004, and it has always been one of my favorite movies; My parents bought our first vehicle with a rear-seat DVD entertainment system that same year, and as an easily-bored autistic teenager, that was one of my favorite movies to watch on long roadtrips…

In the movie, some of the main characters take refuge in the New York Public Library when a tsunami floods Manhattan; There is clearly a street going towards the library. On the summer 2006 trip, my parents and I went to the public library, and I was completely shocked to see that the 3-way intersection in front of the library did not exist. There was obviously a street in front of the library, but the road the tidal wave approaches on was created just for the movie! My parents had also not been to NYC in years and I think they were a bit surprised too, and my mom LIVED in NYC in the early eighties! That was, by far, the best trip to NYC that I ever went on; We went to Times Square and ate at the Hard Rock Café (that may have actually been on the '08 trip; we definitely went to Times Square though), we went to FAO Schwartz, we went to Ellis Island, and we went to Ground Zero!

 

My Tacoma has never been driven any further North than Wilkes-Barre in the time I've owned it, and will likely never see the streets of Manhattan; Now that my grandma is likely selling the house in Maine, I have little reason to drive it that far North

My Tacoma has over 119K miles on it as of this post, but most of its life has been spent in Southeast Pennsylvania; It's been out to Carlisle and back exactly six times (car shows of course; Five times for the Truck Nationals and once for the GM Nationals), it's been to York and back twice (two different car shows), it's been to Wilkes-Barre twice (my cousin and her husband live there), and it's been the Poconos three times (my best friend's parents have a second home up there that they allow us to requisition for the occasional party)…

My truck has been driven into Philly maybe three or four times for Uber Eats and Doordash deliveries (NEVER AGAIN!), and in the summer of 2019 I easily put 2,000 miles on it in July-August of that year just driving to car shows!

My truck has been driven to South Jersey more times than I can count, exclusively for car shows; It has been to my Grandma's house in Edison (which is closer to North Jersey in my opinion) one time...

The furthest South my truck has ever been was to Northern Virginia in 2010; With COVID not going away anytime soon, I have a feeling that if I want to go visit my family in South Carolina by myself I will be driving...

I hit 100K sometime in mid-July of 2019; Roughly 15 months later, I have almost 120K miles on my truck! Even in the midst of a pandemic, I managed to put somewhere around 17K miles on my truck in one year!

 

I’ve been there before; Last time I went was the day before I hit 100K...

When is it? I have plans to meet a lady friend at another car show in Levittown at 3pm!

 

So, I’ll probably have 121K miles by the end of this year...

I did a little bit of DoorDash in January and February, but stopped abruptly when the pandemic really got started, so I don’t think I put more than a few hundred miles on the truck this year making food deliveries...

By my calculations, I’ll have about 135K miles by the end of 2021, give or take; By 2022, I’ll probably have around 150K!

That means that by the end of 2025, I’ll be approaching 200K!