Show me your 1st gen grill

03 DCSB TRD OR
3rd gen grille grafted to OEM 1st gen grille

 

Other than the bug deflector and the LED marker lights it’s stock.

 

Anyone happen to know the color code for the grey grill surrounding on 2004 base Tacoma?

 

1997, Pro grill, TRD metal emblem, raptor lights, oem fog light switch for raptor lights

 

I had a billet insert for about 14 years and decided to go back to a stock grill.

 

Love the blacked out headlights and corner lights

 

Not a Tacoma, 2003 Hilux, but still a Toyota.
Removed the center section of the stock grille, and modified an aftermarket tube grille for an '05 Tacoma. Kept the stock emblem.

 

What I found is the dark metallic gray grill surround and bumper blades on the base model Tacoma are painted 11GY21.

 

thank you!

 

Aftermarket stock after a deer sucked through my original factory grill. You can notice blacked out paint job failed after impact in 2017

 

BRO ARE YOU ME?? LOL I literally hit a deer on the way back home from my gpa's funeral.

Crazy thing is that my dad who passed away a couple years before him hit a deer on the same damn road.

Anyways, I had some retros I never installed because of my fear of hitting a deer but after the repair I installed some retros and a arb bumper lol.

Do you have a lift? I'm currently trying to figure out my next move. I have some new oem lbjs, but figured I need to do the lower CA and uppers too. But I would rather replace them with total chaos but it seems SPC is the way to go.

For the lift kit I was thinking the heavy spec from ome. 883 coils, nitros and Dakar aal.

I have a DCCB with a heavy skid plate from that guy that use to make them on here.

 

Yes I did oh OME about 11 years ago 881s…..I’m just a regular cab. You should be good with your choices maybe a tad heavy with the 883’s.
Kind of funny your damage was very similar to mine. You can see some details in my information

Now the damn deer will run into us from the side… Lol

 

Factory grill chrome was peeling off, so I peeled the rest off and painted the grill using Duplicolor Truck Bed Liner.

Came out pretty clean and has held up great

Other option is a new factory grill, but this was much cheaper.

 

i’ve seen similar trucks with similar front ends but never the same

TRD PRO GRILL here’s the before and after

 

Couple iterations since my last post in 2018.

Satoshi got cut to accomodate a winch:

IMG_2127 by Michael Halat, on Flickr

Hella horns were added along with 7" LED's with a BAMF mount as a nod to my old setup:

Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

IMG_5617 by Michael Halat, on Flickr

And the old setup lives in the garage for nostalgia as it was the trucks first mod ever.

Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr
Untitled by Michael Halat, on Flickr

 

Is there a thread on how to make these? Some of these are awesome and I am looking to customize mine.

 

https://www.tacomaworld.com/threads/3rd-gen-grill-on-1st-gen-retrofit.662437/

I followed this one

 

I'm really liking this Grill.
I think this should be my next project.

 

Has anyone swapped a Toyota pickup grill (doesnt matter what year, I like the 1979 the most), onto an early trim ('97-'00) Tacoma? I would like to visualize, I always like the vintage look of the pickup grills but it might look funny on a Taco. Both models of the 1st gen trims very stale IMO