Been a 33+year love affair ... Now its time to move on.

[Motorhead]

  At 20 years I really thought about it as it has NO air bags or other more modern safety equipment.
At 25 years The wife really pushed for it's sale ... I resisted & still loved my Toy, so it did not happen !!
At 30 years I sorta fell out of love and the use was at an all time low ... Still, I resisted !!
Here at year 33 being the original owner having purchased way back in 1993  my old reliable lover of off road adventures just got put up for sale !!!

With ONLY 115,800 Original miles working out to be @ 3600 miles a year it is absolutely a Diamond for her age and am asking good $$$ for her too.

Sure going to miss the adventures as at 66 now have no business being 4 wheeling in the remote back country as "we" did in our younger years.

[bear air]

Sweet looking truck Scott. What's your asking price ? Those are some tough trucks and are great for off roading.

[Blowpipe Sam]

Very Nice!  But you'll be sorry!

51 years old.  No rollover protection.  No airbag.  No side impact protection.  More column type in "Small on Safety" than the Corvair ever got in "Unsafe at any speed".  Factory installed incendiary bomb under the hood.  Probably the most unsafe car ever imported into the US.  I ain't parting with my 74 VW Thing.

[Motorhead]

Sweet looking truck Scott. What's your asking price ? Those are some tough trucks and are great for off roading.

With its rarity of these earlier Pre Tacoma IFS rigs, condition, low mileage etc .... $9500.00 which is well above blue book & by talking with many prior ... sure I'll get that too !!!

[Jason_Garvin]

Wish they still made those.  I bought a new one 2010 timeframe, reg cab, 4x4, 4 cyl manual.  I ended up selling it couldn’t warm up to it like a older model like yours.  In Illinois those trucks rotted real bad.  Now in 2020 we purchased a new Four runner SR5 premium, and it is here to stay.

Jason

[gamo2hammerli]

Still looks great, my car just turned 22 years old.

[Motorhead]

Jason

Wish they still made those.  I bought a new one 2010 timeframe, reg cab, 4x4, 4 cyl manual.  I ended up selling it couldn’t warm up to it like a older model like yours.  In Illinois those trucks rotted real bad.  Now in 2020 we purchased a new Four runner SR5 premium, and it is here to stay.

Jason

We live below the snow line and as a result never been exposed to road salt .. it has ZERO body rot/cancer and in spite the years outside is in really good condition

[airgunaut]

I had the 1-ton 2WD Toyota, bought new in 1992. Early in the 2000s I noticed how much worse the frequency and seriousness of wrecks was getting in CO. I never drove under the influence of any substance, kept the cell phone turned off etc, but the someone elses were getting more dangerous. If someone T-boned me, those unreinforced doors would have caved easily.

When Toyota, Nissan, and GM/Chevy all introduced their midsize trucks at the end of 2004, it was time to look more seriously at what was available. I did some some test drives and ordered a Nissan spec'ed exactly as desired, not what the dealers had on the lots. It was worth the 2-month wait.

That truck is approaching 20 years of age now, has just under 114,000 miles, and still runs and looks great.

You might miss your old buggy...I have fond memories of adventures in all my previous vehicles. Every one of them!

[bReTt]

Great trucks.  Paint looks a bit scorched from that California sun/weather?  Had an ‘84 4x4 bought new in ‘84 by my dad.  I bought it from him in ‘89.  I NEVER should have sold that truck.  It was a champ.  Had the 22R engine in it. 

I have a 2000 2WD Tacoma that I bought new.  It was my daily driver for 22 years.  It has 346,000 miles on it.  Used and abused by me and I still have it and my son drives to and from school 5 days a week.  Still going strong.  The most major thing going with it was that it blew a spark plug.  Fixed that with a sleeve (not helicoil) and that’s the worst it’s had happen so far.  Toyota makes good products.  I now drive a ‘22 Corolla hatchback for my commuter rig.

[eeler1]

So, sure, ok, dump the old broad, now what you getting?  Younger, tighter, more run for your money? Tesla?

[grackle blaster]

At the age of  "23 years young"  my peashooter just rolled over 129,000 miles on the clock.  No extra electronics , driving for you , telling you to keep your eyes on the road , shutting engine off at traffic light........................and all that other "safety equipment".   Gotta love them !       2002  4x4 base .

[RBQChicken]

The old style Tacoma bodies were much nicer looking than today's models

[Xraycer]

Sweet looking truck Scott. What's your asking price ? Those are some tough trucks and are great for off roading.

With its rarity of these earlier Pre Tacoma IFS rigs, condition, low mileage etc .... $9500.00 which is well above blue book & by talking with many prior ... sure I'll get that too !!!

I would pay that for only 115k miles! That engine will easily reach 500k with just regular maintenance. Best part about that truck is that you could actually work on it yourself, and for fairly cheap!
Someone is going to be a very happy new owner. Hopefully, it'll go to an enthusiast, and not just be a first car for some teenager or something.

[airgunaut]

Some of the oldies just keep tickin'.

I bought a 1977 Chevy Nova in 1988 as a second car, a beater for around town. Despite not expecting to keep it longer than a couple of years, I just kept getting things fixed and it just kept running. When I finally sold it as a parts car in 1999, it still ran. Burned more oil than the quart per month it used to burn, the weatherstripping all needed replacement, and the car basically was only economically worth fixing by an owner hobbyist, not a hired mechanic. Also, we had moved to an extremely steep location where a V8 RWD automatic got driven very little.

When I started the engine so the prospective buyer could listen, he exclaimed, "That runs great! I was going to pull the engine, fix the leaking, and put it in another car that has a V6, but now I think I'll give it to my daughter for her first car."

Fast forward a year or two...I was cycling on a state park road when I heard a car slowly driving from behind me. So familiar ws the timbre of that engine and the shadetree dual exhaust systems that I knew it was my old beast. Which it was! The guy must have chosen Option #2 after all.

But fast forward again, this time about another 8 years or so. My husband and I were stopped at a red light in Denver. In the lane left of us, I saw a car that looked just like my oldie pass by. It had the same rusting creased dent in the right rear panel where someone's broken tailpipe on a highway had flipped up and smacked the car because I had no room to avoid it. The same faded, oxidized silver paint color. But not that sweet engine sound anymore. The owner must have finally chosen to pull the engine and swapped in a V6.

The car was more than 30 years old by that time, and it had been used HARD by the owner before I got it. I took basic care of it but neither abused nor babied it. Amazing how many people it served.

[Motorhead]

So, sure, ok, dump the old broad, now what you getting?  Younger, tighter, more run for your money? Tesla?

No ... One less insurance premium ... One less DMV registration ... One less biannual Smog cert which in retirement is a good start 

[Motorhead]

Crazy 24 hrs ...
The Tire kickers, Hustlers, Vehicle flippers are all pining to buy it, FOR LESS !!!
So far near every inquire is some bleeding heart story of hard times and not having that much $$ ... kinda entertaining actually as no one know there dealing with an older man who's worked sales & service his whole life.  Went as far with one dude who was hustling me on all that is needing attention on & one to state you "Can't hustle a hustler" and yet he still went on & one till i hung up on him 

[airgunaut]

So, sure, ok, dump the old broad, now what you getting?  Younger, tighter, more run for your money? Tesla?

No ... One less insurance premium ... One less DMV registration ... One less biannual Smog cert which in retirement is a good start 

One more parking space, until/unless you buy a replacement.

[Motorhead]

SOLD IT TODAY .... Got my asking price too !!
Going to miss it .. yet not miss it as the remembrance of 33 years of adventures is documented and heart felt.

Kinda sad 

[splitbeing]

Bittersweet congrats, Scott.  You did it!

[Frank in Fairfield]

I saw the toy on Saturday.
It is lovely.
V6 4wd, extended cab!