Recent content by nye307

Reading through the comments some of them appear genuine, others... not so much. Which is really more befitting a facebook group than a technical automotive forum IMO. My back is against a wall and a friend of mine threw me a lifeline by offering to show me the finer points of something he's...

Thanks @3_puppies , definitely helpful! I try not to talk prices because I'm concerned the comments section during a sale may lead back to a thread where I mentioned what I got it for or what the refurbishment budget was. There might be a little bit of "well if he got it for X I'm not paying...

Doesn't seem super helpful to be honest. Had a thread with a concrete question and the last four or five responses are about something entirely different, half of them disingenuous and snide. These trucks have been around a long time and they're relatively simple machines. I'll wager most...

Well, chalk this one up to a corner of the internet I won't be visiting again. I have a friend who has been doing this consistently for the past two years. Recently he told me he could quit his day job if he wanted to. I've painted cars before and I've been wrenching since before I could drive...

Thanks for your insight @TreadingLight. The average age of our fleet is probably about 30 years and on a handful of them I couldn't care less that there's a small exhaust leak or that the rear passenger window won't go down. So I appreciate the lifestyle you're talking about. But both our local...

@TreadingLight , most "flippers" give a car a decent detail claim they gave it an oil change and then attempt to juice an extra $2,000 out of it. That's not my game. I don't do anything halfway. I'm not interested in arguing about it but what I will say is that once I obtain the right truck...

Thanks Nick, appreciate the heads up. My situation is basically I'm a career professional of ten years who cannot find a job to save his life in the current economy, I've got a baby on the way and my wife's salary alone is not enough to get us by. Our nest egg is steadily being depleted and I...

Well, the price is right on this one, but leaning towards passing. The way I see it, if the accident history was not a problem I would have a solid 10k to work with in the restoration and still be able to do well on the truck. But if the accident history is a problem there's no way to tell how...

Hi all. Relatively new to the Toyota world but I've quickly fallen in love with Gen1 4Runners and am looking to branch out into 60/62 LandCruisers. I'm experiencing a bit of a mid life career realignment and going from being a data scientist to restoring old vehicles (totally logical step, I...