Ahh, look what I found cleaning the garage

[PHXtaco]

The speedometer from my old `89 Toyota truck!

The memories of those many good miles :smiley_drive:
After replacing the spedo I put another 50,000+ miles on it when the right front lower A-arm clipped a rock hiding behind a clump of grass sticking up like the equivalent of an iceberg sticking out of the water. Only going 5 mph, but stopped dead cold, and the front tire was 1 ½ inches aft of where it should have been-- and the rock had not budged! Despite replacing the A-arm and having a body shop straighten the frame, it would just not hold an alignment. The 2005 Tacoma had just come out and I did not like the new style, so I picked up the 2004 I have now.

 

[tanglefoot]

Ooh, I believe the 89 Toyota 4x4 won Peterson's 4x4 of the year!

You must have done some adventuring, or maybe I don't do enough. My '85 doesn't have anywhere close to that many miles on it.

 

[That One Guy]

It won Four Wheeler's Pickup Truck of The Year in '89. Don't really feel like digging through my Peterson's archives to see because I don't remember when the last issue was that they did theirs.

 

[CA-RJ]

You should figure out a way to frame it and hang it up in your garage. I hope my 86 is still running strong when I hit that mileage. Only 65k to go!

 

[PHXtaco]

I was really hoping to hit 500,000 in it, but it had seen enough washboards it had a number of rattles and fatigue cracks in the fenders (namely battery mount) that the alignment problem was the coup de grâce. As much as I liked the `89, I love the 2004 though. The biggest thing I miss about the `89 was the cup holders in front of the a/c vents that kept my Pepsi cold in the AZ summers!