Shradicalwyo
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Saw that thing this morning on my daily craigslist camper search.. So clean.
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PirateMcGee
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red EOD veteran
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Great thread. Until the last few years all my trucks have been old, some dirt cheap. My favorite was a 79 K5 blazer that I paid $300 for and drove it home. Used it mostly for rock crawling and camping trips in Utah. Locker in the rear axle and 33" tires.
Before that had a 87 4runner, 22re 5 speed. Paid a few hundred bucks for this truck. Replaced the transmission when 5th gear went out, and killed the engine on the way home from a winter camping trip up in the mountains. The short coolant hose going from the tstat to the water pump split while driving on the highway at night and pumped all the coolant out.
Over the last few years of dealing with car payments and the expenses of typical american life, learned that being debt free and getting away is much more important to me.
Before that had a 87 4runner, 22re 5 speed. Paid a few hundred bucks for this truck. Replaced the transmission when 5th gear went out, and killed the engine on the way home from a winter camping trip up in the mountains. The short coolant hose going from the tstat to the water pump split while driving on the highway at night and pumped all the coolant out.
Over the last few years of dealing with car payments and the expenses of typical american life, learned that being debt free and getting away is much more important to me.
I play outside
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I'll play. 92 22re bought w 116k single owner. Super clean. Added Scion tC coupe seats.
Pics are as I bought it. With a shell and aal. Built a custom flat rack for the shell and a shelf for inside. Then W my 88 supereta. Love me some E30. At KOH. Then just last week the misses and I hit a random fire road and woke up above the clouds to this sun rise. Sweet little truck. Diff makes noise has no power. But I like it
Pics are as I bought it. With a shell and aal. Built a custom flat rack for the shell and a shelf for inside. Then W my 88 supereta. Love me some E30. At KOH. Then just last week the misses and I hit a random fire road and woke up above the clouds to this sun rise. Sweet little truck. Diff makes noise has no power. But I like it
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Crenshaw
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Clearly the e30 is a natural partner to the 3rd gen Toyota pickup. Equally cheap, reliable, simple, and fun.
New parts for both. Finally replacing the junked out springs and shocks on the Yota:
Turbo manifold for the e30, added to the building pile of parts for next rallyx season:
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New parts for both. Finally replacing the junked out springs and shocks on the Yota:
Turbo manifold for the e30, added to the building pile of parts for next rallyx season:
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Crenshaw
Adventurer
Made it out of town for a few days last weekend in some old junk.
To be perfectly honest I'm pretty happy just finding a cool spot and hanging out, riding bikes, floating, or just drinking beer. Harder 4x4 excursions lost their novelty some time ago- it's nice to know that it's possible to get my rig somewhere semi-gnarly, but as a means of recreating I'm just not terribly interested in wheelin' anymore. That said, we did stumble across some fairly technical sections this weekend that were kind of entertaining.
New rear suspension setup seems to work pretty well.
More '80s junk. My buddy just picked up this low mileage bone stock xj. I've had one before and am always surprised how capable they are even with terrible clearance and tiny tires...
Mood lighting in full effect.
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To be perfectly honest I'm pretty happy just finding a cool spot and hanging out, riding bikes, floating, or just drinking beer. Harder 4x4 excursions lost their novelty some time ago- it's nice to know that it's possible to get my rig somewhere semi-gnarly, but as a means of recreating I'm just not terribly interested in wheelin' anymore. That said, we did stumble across some fairly technical sections this weekend that were kind of entertaining.
New rear suspension setup seems to work pretty well.
More '80s junk. My buddy just picked up this low mileage bone stock xj. I've had one before and am always surprised how capable they are even with terrible clearance and tiny tires...
Mood lighting in full effect.
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Townsend
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Looks a lot like the truck I've been lusting after here locally for $4k asking...
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/5768036670.html
http://denver.craigslist.org/cto/5768036670.html
Crenshaw
Adventurer
Wow, that thing is pretty clean! A few years ago I would've thought $4k was an awful lot to ask for one of those trucks, but now it actually seems like a pretty good deal. There's another one here in Salida for sale with a little more wear and tear, not sure how much they're asking...I'll take a couple pics of it if I see it in the next could days.
04dblcab
Observer
If I would of kept my 92 that I bought in Denver in 08 I would of ended up putting a 3.4 in it like yours. That's awesome that you're from salida. My great grandparents lived there on 1st street I believe. I dig your truck man!! I love that tent. I traded my 3rd gen in on a 1st gen Tacoma. I needed that double can for pets and family.
Jeff.
Jeff.
Crenshaw
Adventurer
Some snippets from fall desert dirtbagging.
Spent a couple weeks floating the Colorado around Moab with a revolving door of lowlifes and about 215 cans of cheap beer.
At some point my well-worn raft trailer decided to give up the ghost. Off to the dump with her! It was a good run, lots and lots of trips under that thing. A guy at the Moab recycling center agreed to take it for scrap so I wouldn't have to pay to leave it at the dump.
Unfortunately the demise of my trailer meant we had to kick it old school from the takeout home. Whitey Lewis the pickup was somehow able to absorb my entire raft rig with gear for several weeks, frame, cooler, etc... This is how we always used to do it but what a monumental pain in the ***.
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Spent a couple weeks floating the Colorado around Moab with a revolving door of lowlifes and about 215 cans of cheap beer.
At some point my well-worn raft trailer decided to give up the ghost. Off to the dump with her! It was a good run, lots and lots of trips under that thing. A guy at the Moab recycling center agreed to take it for scrap so I wouldn't have to pay to leave it at the dump.
Unfortunately the demise of my trailer meant we had to kick it old school from the takeout home. Whitey Lewis the pickup was somehow able to absorb my entire raft rig with gear for several weeks, frame, cooler, etc... This is how we always used to do it but what a monumental pain in the ***.
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Crenshaw
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Thanks! I'm so spoiled with this truck- not even shocked with what it still puts up with and there's never a question about it's reliability. If I take the white truck somewhere, I know it's going to work.
Here are some more pictures of humans and dogs:
