this truck even amazed me it still ran -or could run !

renovation

it had to be a tonka truck -sorry no american truck keep working even could run with 1/2 the abuse !

knight0334 · Posted: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 17:21:26 Post Subject:

my dad had a Toyota that I learned to drive on. I put that truck thru hell.. It had 200000+ miles on it when we sold it and the guy who bought it drove it for 5 years..

Good truck

Spire · Posted: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:08:54 Post Subject:

When I was in tech school, I bought a 1970 toyota HiLux pickup for 200 bucks.

It had no title, throttle cable, dipstick, back window, paint, or rear brakes. It did have one front brake however.

I drive this thing for a year or so and finally we decided to take it up in teh mountains and destroy it.

We rolled it twice, jumped it many times, and ripped both doors off using trees and high speed backward passes.

Finally one tie rod broke and we couldnt steeer with both front wheels, so we tied it to a tree, put it in 4th gear and tied the carb open. Ten minutes later of over redline running we got bored waiting for it to fail and I hit the valve cover with a sledge, broke one rocker arm and bent a pushrod...

It still ran (lower R%PM however) after 5 more minutes of waiting we chopped the radiator with an axe.

It ran for almost 10 more minutes and finally it siezed hard.

Then we backed up a few 100 feet and shot at the gas tank with a 300 Winchester. It never did blow up, we ran out of bullets.

This is the reason I bought a 2000 Toyota Tacoma with 50k miles... I figure I have a good 300k left before I need to open the hood.

BeerCheeze · Posted: Sun, 29 Jan 2006 18:23:34 Post Subject:

Bhaaaa... I've had nothing but problems with Toyota's. Owned 2 (1/4-Ton Xtra Cab Long bed Truck & Corolla), both of them kept breaking and needing expensive repairs. That dam truck kept going through master cylinders, needed basically the front 1/2 of the engine re-done. And it had like 60K - 70K miles on it. Never really did any "work" either... some light moving is all. The corolla kept going through head gaskets (yes I had the heads re-done too) and it kept having cooling systems issues. Clutch replacements, etc.... GACK!!!!

Never had 1/10 the issues with either my GMC's or my 70 Nova.

Now on the other hand, my Dad had a Toyota pickup that I drove in HS, and I believe it's now on it's 3rd or 4th owner and it's still running (gotta have 200,000+ miles on it by now).

FOX · Posted: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 00:35:35 Post Subject:

i remember watching that video.... was great and i love that show!!

HackaX0rus · Posted: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 02:14:13 Post Subject:

me and my buddy got 2 free cars ...both mid 80's pos'...one is a chevy/geo nova and the other is a corolla...we got em both running...knocked out the glass, made supports and we are gunna jump em...i doubt they will survive much but it should be fun...

...that movie was amazing

vulcan · Posted: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 07:19:46 Post Subject:

Oh god, i remember that episode... you should see some of the other stuff they've done as well

thePMG · Rated XXX Joined: 24 Apr 2004 Posts: 393 Location: Germany

My first and only Toyota was a disaster, the repairs and parts are way too expensive. First a transmission (with integrated transfer case, so it's REAL expensive to rebuild), then a head gasket 2 months later. I decided to cut my loses ($4200!) on the 4runner.

I went ahead and gots me one of these:
http://wwjunk.boldlygoingnowhere.org/jeep/suches%20035.jpg

Much nicer, and the parts are cheap and plentiful.

HackaX0rus · Posted: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:23:25 Post Subject:

HackaX0rus · Posted: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:24:14 Post Subject:

nice pmg...throw a snorkel and a prop. on there and your will have an indestructable vehicle...