Well you seem to like change. I think you are only telling half the story though. Didn't you go from the LX450 to a Taco, to the white 80?
You should update the OP with a full history for us, tell it all.
Chevy looks great though.
Well to be honest, I have gone through a few vehicles and some of them I regret selling while others, not so much.
If we go all the way back, my first 4x4 was a 1978 Chevy, SWB, Stepside, 350, 4spd, Scottsdale (no A/C). It was a great truck and had a lot of fun playing around on the local trails, nothing too hard, just typical forest service type roads.
I traded that in on a 1990 Wrangler, 4.2, 5spd, hardtop. Went from stock (horrible wheeler stock), 2.5" lift with 32's and a lockright in the rear axle. Started running the Rubicon. Then 4" lift with 33's, 4:1 t-case, ARB's front and rear, 4.56's, Currie D44 with discs, custom rear bumper/tire carrier. That eventually became SOA (my own custom springs), with 35's, ran Rubicon, Fordyce, Moab and still explored the desert, but mainly rockcrawling. Sorry, but no digital images.
Had a fit of insanity and bought a '88 4runner, v6, 5spd, one owner with 76k miles in cherry condition. Sold the Jeep (wished I would have kept that one). Out with the IFS, in went the 83 front solid axle with FJ80 highpinion front third, ARB's front and rear, 5.29's, Allpro front and rear springs, ARB front bumper, winch, 35's, dual marlin t-cases, oba with Viar compressor, Eaton shifter knob to control ARB's, Can-back. Still into rockcrawling mostly, but still got out to the Nevada backcountry occasionally. Wheeled Rubicon, Fordyce, Moab, Johnson Valley and pretty much everything in between.
Clawhammer in Johnson Valley.
Got tired of rockcrawling and decided to try something completely different. So in came the Sport ATV's, sold the 4runner. Mine was a Yamaha Raptor 660 and my wifes was a Suzuki 400.
Yes they got dirty, I just had them cleaned up after a trip to the sand. My wife didn't care for just riding in the dirt, she really preferred the sand, so that is what we did. She had two accidents (nothing serious), but it was enough to make me realize that ATV's probably weren't the best idea.
That is when the Lexus 450 came to be. We decided that the backcountry was what we wanted to see. I had to put tires and do the other maintenence on it, but other than that, we just loaded it up and went.
That insanity hit again and we decided that we wanted a truck, so the Tacoma was next. Again, didn't make too many mods to it. Just drove it.
Sold that and bought the 80 in the original post. It was bone stock when purchased, but didn't stay that way for long.
Really liking our current setup. That is only the offroad rigs, that doesn't even come close to the other vehicles/motorcycles that me and my wife have owned over the years. We have a problem. We are fond of saying that if we won the lottery, we would have a 1400 sq/ft house and a 30k sq/ft garage filled with all of our vehicles. We are both car people...bad. :ylsmoke:
Jack
