Reg cab in the wild

Where 2wd & 4wd 95-97 frames any different?

 

Here’s my turd. Need to get some pics of her cleaned up without the ugly shell. This was the day I got it.

 

not sure if this truck is a 97 or not
local salvage Upull it place has a 97 from a few weeks ago
sure hope when i get there this week that this truck is not the one in the yard

 

Ill just throw out there that salt and corrosive anti icing agents are the real issue, and you can have rust above the rear wheel but still have a good frame. Mine spent over a decade in Canada, but it was so far north they didn't use salt because it was too cold for it to be effective. My frame is okay, no holes, but I think it's thin in spots. I do have a hole rusted through above the drivers rear wheel well though. I can only assume that was from the time it spent in Michigan.

 

no kidding..most of the ones here are horrible.

mines pretty mint but it sits during winter and I lived in Georgia till recently

 

mine is in relatively very nice overall condition, its been in NE, KS, MO and IA for almost 1/4 century now and I drive it during winter, usualy the funnest time of the year around here LOL, and freeze my nads off at the gorilla wash hosing it down best i can all the time with fervor!

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from a few posts back.... that red one was not the one in the yard! it was white
i went to the U Pull It on south 60th and found there a fallen 'unicorn', white 97 single cab v6 with 239k miles
looks like they abandoned it on the highway with a police tag onit, it was totally trashed and not pretty under there!

i still have to run the VIN to see where all its been registered
Toyota says NE has no winter problem, so we shall see!

 

Funny scale difference between a 1st gen Taco & recent Tundra: