Let me start at the beginning...

I bought my first Toyota Pickup the day I graduated high school. At first I was drawn to it because I thought it was a cool ride. It was already lowered and had a yellow paint job with these black blotches of paint the ran up the front. But soon, I fell in love with it and started modifying it myself. At first, I paid for people to do stuff to it... but that got expensive real quick, not to mention I wanted to say I did the work myself, so I learned how.

And then, the engine blew. Threw a rod right out the side. Did I give up on her? No way! I went to the junk yard and got another engine to rebuild and put in it, even though I had never done anything like that before.

It didn't go well at first. First, I thought they gave me the wrong engine. I broke bolts in it, didn't set gaskets right, and slaughtered the build. it was a tremendous fail, but still I did not give up.

I took the thing back out, did some research and found out I had in fact an engine that Toyota only made for 1 year, and it was a really good one. So, I went and I read, I took my time and built it a second time, but now it was unbelievable! In fact, I got the thing so fast it went 0-60 in just over 5 seconds! Yeah, I couldn't believe it either.

It peeked my interest so much in auto repair and modification, I took classes and even ran my own business for a few years.

I continued to modify it, and at last got the new paint job I wanted. Mustang yellow with black racing stripes. About a month later, I got creamed in the rear end. Destroyed the entire bed and bent the frame up pretty good.

That's when I put it in storage... about 11 years ago.

Now, three kids, a degree in mathematics and statistics and a divorce later, I have finally been given the opportunity to bring my truck out of storage. I have just bought a 94 Pickup and I am preparing to rebuild my dream. This time I have more wisdom, experience, and ability to do it right the first time. After I am done, I will give it to one of my daughters... The first one to graduate college with a real degree.

So, to sum it all up. I am an old school Toyo owner doing it again, and am so glad to find other people that share my obsession! I hope to meet some great people on here, and share stories and advice.

 

im really looking forward to this build its a little like me and my truck well lets see some pics

 

I posted some pics of the old pickup on my profile. Going to take some pics of the new truck tomorrow... Have to get this thing road-worthy first. Replacing part of the wiring harness and the rear brakes.

 

Welcome to the forum man! Feel free to start a build thread so we can track your progress.

 

welcome to the site!

 

Welcome to TM! Yep, there are plenty of us die-hard Toyota Hilux owners.