Ok here's the deal in 1986 after I graduated from high school I had a fairly good job. so as as a gift to myself I went down and bought a new toyota pick up so I would have a reliable ride to get back and forth to work while I rebuilt my vw square back (or make it better as I thought) well any ways before I knew it I got the minitruck bug and on went a set of 15" x 8 wheels aand slamed it to the ground then all my extra money was going into a stereo system! well after 3years of hard driven and 280k on the clock I sold it for a full size truck. so over the last couple of years I thought it be nice to have another mini to run around in. so last month I decided to buy another toyota and my idea was to find a fairly nice well taken care of one for less then 2g's and just drive it (YEA right)
well I picked up an 88 for $500 that was in good shape but needed some TLC

I've been fixing cosmetic stuff on it and a few little mechanical things like tune up fuel pump and electrical (why do some people think they need to rewire vehicle diferently then the factory) and this little truck has brought back a lot of memrys but as I started to cruze craigslist and wreaking yards for parts I kept thinking it needs wheels. SON OF A.... I found a sweet deal on a set of 17" moteig wheels today for 100 buck F ing sweet so on my way home I started to think I'm going to build a low I mean low budget mini that I can cruz to work

so here's where I'm at so far ( I'm rounding off for eas of adding)
truck.... $500
sold the canopy for $100
fuel pump$50
plugs cap roter wires $60
wheels $100
hood& cowl $25
misc parts $10

I had a sweet bed and tailgate for a $100 but after watching the guy at the junk yard run it into the fence and then hit a tree in his effort to get it out I decide I now have less body work in mine so that hunt goes on

I'll start posting pic' this weekend but here's it when I firt brought it home

 

WOW, sorry about the book

 

nah. we love it as long as a book has pictures

 

What book ???????????????

 

You know, the book.

 

the unwritten book of the road...

 

well my $100 wheels arnt working out the center bore is to small I was thinking to put spacers in but my wheel studs are to short so if I have them machined out to fit I think they'll set in to far that my dust cap on the fronts will push out the center caps

I'll post up some pic's after I run out and get some

 

wheels I've got them on craigslist

 

so I sold the motegi wheels this morning got $350 for them then I picked up a set of mustang wheels for $50 but I cant decide if I like them maybe if I go get some tires and mount them up I'd take a liken to them.

what do you all think

 

how come my pictures arnt showing up any more?

any ways I got seats out of a celica and a new bed with tailgate
along with some misc small parts for $150 to day

I think Ill go over and see my rino liner guy tomorrow and see how bad he's going to stroke me to spray my cab floor
before I put the seats in

also I got a bright Idea last night to check my adjustment on the valves and it looks like some one rebuilt the engine not to long ago

 

^^ sweet! nice to know. good luck. where'd you put your pics on?

 

awe nuts I had big planes to get after my truck today but I called to work I've been off work for almost 3 months and the one day I make planes to do what I want all day I have to go back to work
but I did stop by napa and pick up new brake and clutch peddle pads and a tailgate handle so it looks like sunday will be the big day


and I post up my pictures on a truck site that I can just up load from my computer and then cut and past baby

 

well got the big laid off yesterday so to day I picked up every thing to rebuild the front end I also did some research on shocks I found that the front shocks from a vega are 8 inches so I ordered up some
so with all the balljoints, inter and outer tie rods, center link, and a few other things it set me back just a little over 500 bucks but its going to drive lots better

i also went by pull a part and walked around for about an hour looking at arm rest whenn I found that back arm rest off of a camery and corrolla are the same as mine

so I'll get it lowered and rebuild the front end tomorrow hopfully and then post upn some pic's

 

Sweet
leather headrests (adjustable) from my 93 camry XLE worked on my truck

 

Seats



wheels are on





holly closeup batman them aresome big ass pictures

 

bring it to the hilux meet in march. i wanna see it in person!

 

look at the size of the pictures your almost are

when and where in march

 

i made a thread about it. somewhere in seattle. 3rd weekend of march.

 

thats helpful

 

Looking good so far keep it up